Photo: Thirteene · Public domainMore households in detached houses than 93% of UK towns: 54%
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, against 73% across England’s towns. Terrington St Clement counted 2,792 residents and 1,163 households at the 2021 Census. On the census count, 4.6% of households live in a flat or apartment. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 80% of UK towns.
A median age of 47.7: Terrington St Clement is older than 73% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 60–64: 7.5% of residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. Here, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Terrington St Clement, 47.7. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Full-time students: 3.7%, a lower share than 91% of UK towns
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%.
In Terrington St Clement, nearly a quarter of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 31% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. The census found that 7.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in the town.
One-person households: 26%, a lower share than 81% of UK towns
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3.3%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Typically, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Households average 2.4 people.
Below 84% of UK towns: 12% of households live in a terraced house
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
The figure for households without a car or van is 15% in Terrington St Clement and 24% across England’s towns.
A lower share of residents born outside the UK than 74% of UK towns, at 4.3%
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
98% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. Against that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.9%) and in Africa (0.6%).
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 63% of UK towns, at 52%
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 Terrington St Clement · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (3.2%), Mixed or multiple (0.5%) and African (0.3%). By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Just over two in five residents said they have no religion (England’s towns: 37%).
Below 71% of UK towns: 29% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
Unpaid carers: 10%, above just over three quarters of UK towns. The share of adults who have never married across England’s towns is 39%. The census found that 50% of adults are married or in a civil partnership in Terrington St Clement.
A degree-level qualification for 18% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Terrington St Clement, 18%, and 26% have none, against 18%.
Of 514 UK towns its size (2,500 to 4,000 people), the 225th oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 20.6 in Keele to 63.1 in West Chiltington. Nearest to Terrington St Clement in age: Birdwell (47.7), Kirton in Lindsey (47.7), Cubbington (47.7) and Askam in Furness (47.8).
Older than Terrington St Clement: 3 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrington St Clement | 2,792 | — | 47.7 | 27% | 27% |
| Clenchwarton | 2,020 | 2.4 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 22% |
| Walpole St Peter and Walpole St Andrew | 1,574 | 3.5 mi | 46.9 | 21% | 29% |
| Tilney St Lawrence | 1,504 | 3.9 mi | 46.7 | 26% | 24% |
| Sutton Bridge | 3,912 | 4.7 mi | 43.7 | 23% | 26% |
| King's Lynn | 47,604 | 5.3 mi | 39.3 | 18% | 30% |
| West Winch | 2,828 | 5.7 mi | 50.6 | 28% | 26% |
| Marshland St James | 1,025 | 6.6 mi | 49.6 | 27% | 24% |
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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 Terrington St Clement’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out.
- 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 Terrington St Clement’s residents
What is the population of Terrington St Clement?
The 2021 Census counted 2,792 people in Terrington St Clement’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Terrington St Clement?
The median age was 47.7 at the 2021 Census, older than 73% of UK towns. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Terrington St Clement?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 4.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Terrington St Clement?
41% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Terrington St Clement good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Terrington St Clement’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). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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