Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.04.6% of households have no car or van, below 99% of UK towns
Set against 23% across England’s towns, 1.5% of households live in a flat or apartment in Thurlton. The median age here is 49.4, higher than in 82% of UK towns. The village counted 1,145 residents and 465 households at the 2021 Census. In Thurlton, just over a quarter of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
8.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 81% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
People aged 65 and over make up nearly a quarter of residents, against 18% across England’s towns. More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 76% of UK towns: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in just over a third of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 23% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Typically, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. 4.5% of adults are full-time students.
One-person households make up 21% in Thurlton, less than in 97% 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.
27% of households have dependent children (England’s towns: 29%). On the census count, 3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. The comparison figure for one-person households is 30% across England’s towns.
5.1% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 98% 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
In Thurlton, 60% of households live in a detached house, beside 21% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Thurlton sits above 95% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (99%)
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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Residents born outside the UK: 3.7%, below just over four fifths of UK towns. As a reference point, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
A higher White British share than 88% of UK towns: 96% of residents
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 Thurlton · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (2.5%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Chinese (0.2%). Thurlton has more residents with no religion than 84% of UK towns, at 47%. As a yardstick, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Thurlton ranks above 88% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 55%
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
Nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, against 11% in Thurlton. Measured more widely, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 32% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 32% of its adults qualified to degree level, Thurlton compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 14% hold no qualification (18%).
A younger town than 3 of the 7 around it: Thurlton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurlton | 1,145 | — | 49.4 | 24% | 27% |
| Chedgrave | 1,053 | 3.4 mi | 57 | 39% | 20% |
| Loddon | 2,247 | 3.4 mi | 44.2 | 22% | 26% |
| Freethorpe | 1,050 | 4.1 mi | 41.5 | 19% | 33% |
| Belton | 3,603 | 5.1 mi | 47.5 | 26% | 26% |
| Beccles | 9,807 | 5.4 mi | 48.6 | 28% | 22% |
| Worlingham | 3,618 | 5.7 mi | 50.1 | 29% | 24% |
| Ditchingham | 1,997 | 6.2 mi | 51.2 | 31% | 19% |
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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 Thurlton’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 Thurlton’s residents
What is the population of Thurlton?
The 2021 Census counted 1,145 people in Thurlton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Thurlton?
The median age was 49.4 at the 2021 Census. 8.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Thurlton?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Thurlton?
47% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Thurlton good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Thurlton’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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