Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of households in flats than 99% of UK towns: 0.5%
Compared with 24% across England’s towns, 6.6% of households have no car or van here. On households with dependent children, Spixworth sits lower than 86% of UK towns: 23%. The town’s 1,507 households held 3,418 residents at the 2021 Census. The census found that just over a quarter of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here.
What the Census says about Spixworth’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Spixworth’s residents are under 50.3 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Fewer people than in 2011
ONS mid-year estimates put Spixworth at 3,700 in 2011 and 3,700 in 2024, down 1%, against 10% for England: slower growth than in 88% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Slower growth than 88% of UK towns: Spixworth changed by −1% since 2011
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Spixworth’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 3,700 people in 2011; 3,700 in 2024.
Split by age, the 65 and over changed most (+42%) and the 16 to 29 least (−17%).
A median age of 50.3: Spixworth is older than 86% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns, Spixworth has 28%. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are scarce here: 8.5%, fewer than in 86% of UK towns. The biggest five-year age group is 50–54, with 7.6% of residents.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Spixworth, 50.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Spixworth sits below 99% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (5.5%)
What adults did at the 2021 Census (the ONS’s NS-SEC classes), and where residents lived a year earlier.
Adults by occupation class · residents 16 and over
Address a year before the Census
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Spixworth, 28% and 27%. On average, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Locally, 3.9% of adults are full-time students.
Below 82% of UK towns: 26% of households are one person living alone
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Norfolk’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
With shared households of unrelated adults at 1.9%, Spixworth is behind 77% of UK towns on that count. To put it in context, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Each household has 2.3 people on average.
58% of households live in a detached house, more than in 95% of UK towns
Accommodation type and cars or vans per household, Census 2021. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, against 12% in Spixworth. On average, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Fewer residents born abroad than 83% of UK towns: 3.6%
Country of birth, year of arrival and main language, Census 2021.
Born outside the UK, by region · share of all residents; the bar runs to 25%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Since 2017: 10% of those born abroad, against 21% across England’s towns. Here, 99% of residents have English as their main language. For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across England’s towns is 18%.
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 87% of UK towns don’t reach
How residents described themselves at the 2021 Census. Lines join the lowest and highest of the three figures.
Ethnic groups other than White British · all residents
White British, not charted: 96% of Spixworth · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 45% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.2%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Chinese (0.4%). By way of comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
More married adults and civil partners than 91% of UK towns: 56%
Legal partnership status (residents 16 and over) and unpaid care (residents 5 and over), Census 2021.
Partnership status · residents 16 and over
Unpaid care given · share of residents 5 and over
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 97 residents. Across England’s towns, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9.4%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
21% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 21% of adults in Spixworth (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 19% (England’s towns: 18%).
Of 749 UK towns its size (2,500 to 5,000 people), the 168th oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 18.9 in Bailrigg to 64.6 in Milford on Sea. Nearest to Spixworth in age: Copmanthorpe (50.3), Kelsall (50.3), Caddington (50.3) and Laleham (50.3).
Median age: 3 of the 7 towns around Spixworth are older
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Homes with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spixworth | 3,418 | — | 50.3 | 28% | 23% |
| Horsham St Faith | 1,051 | 1.7 mi | 49.7 | 25% | 24% |
| Rackheath | 1,761 | 2.8 mi | 41.4 | 18% | 33% |
| Thorpe End | 1,173 | 3.1 mi | 53.2 | 29% | 23% |
| Coltishall and Horstead | 2,255 | 3.3 mi | 51.7 | 30% | 23% |
| Horsford | 4,396 | 3.6 mi | 38.8 | 16% | 34% |
| Norwich | 200,744 | 3.6 mi | 37.9 | 18% | 23% |
| Salhouse | 1,431 | 3.9 mi | 52.8 | 31% | 22% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Norfolk’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Norfolk (or England), summed the same way as Spixworth’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Spixworth’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 3,538 people in 2021, against 3,418 in the built-up area.
- Small counts are blurred. The ONS adds small random changes to Census counts to protect privacy, so the same total differs a little between tables, and the shares of a small town can move by a point or two.
Questions about Spixworth’s residents
What is the population of Spixworth?
The 2021 Census counted 3,418 people in Spixworth’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 3,700 people in mid-2024, about as many as in 2011.
What is the average age in Spixworth?
The median age was 50.3 at the 2021 Census, older than 86% of UK towns. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Spixworth?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 3.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Spixworth?
45% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Spixworth good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Spixworth’s schools page.
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area (TS002, TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS008, TS015, TS017, TS019, TS021, TS029, TS030, TS039, TS044, TS045, TS062, TS067) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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