Photo: Richard Humphrey · CC BY-SA 2.04.4% of households have no car or van, below 99% of UK towns
9.8% of households live in a terraced house (England’s towns: 24%). Walpole Cross Keys had 562 residents in 227 households at the 2021 Census. One-person households: 18% of the total. On unpaid carers, Walpole Cross Keys sits higher than 87% of UK towns: 11%.
Walpole Cross Keys is younger than 66% of UK towns: a median age of 42.4
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Little separates the share of residents aged 15 to 24 here, 12%, from the figure across England’s towns. In Walpole Cross Keys, 18% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
3.5% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 95% 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%.
The figure for residents who moved in within the year is 9.2% in Walpole Cross Keys and 11% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Bigger households than 90% of UK towns: 2.5 people each on average
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.
The share of households with dependent children tops 81% of UK towns: 31%. In Walpole Cross Keys, 3.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Fewer households in flats than 99% of UK towns: 0.9%
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
Households in detached houses: 49%, above 88% of UK towns. Set beside that, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
98% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. Typically, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%).
Walpole Cross Keys: 45% of residents said they have no religion, above 73% of UK towns
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: 95% of Walpole Cross Keys · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
47% of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 46% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 95%, more than in 71% of UK towns. Residents with no religion make up 37% across England’s towns. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (2.7%), Indian (1.2%) and Mixed or multiple (0.5%).
In Walpole Cross Keys, 34% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, more than in 63% of UK towns
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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 17. By way of comparison, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. 47% of adults are married or in a civil partnership (England’s towns: 44%).
22% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 22% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 20% hold no qualification (18%).
No nearby town is as young as Walpole Cross Keys
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walpole Cross Keys | 562 | — | 42.4 | 18% | 31% |
| Terrington St Clement | 2,792 | 1.9 mi | 47.7 | 27% | 27% |
| Walpole St Peter and Walpole St Andrew | 1,574 | 2 mi | 46.9 | 21% | 29% |
| Sutton Bridge | 3,912 | 2.9 mi | 43.7 | 23% | 26% |
| Tilney St Lawrence | 1,504 | 3.9 mi | 46.7 | 26% | 24% |
| Clenchwarton | 2,020 | 4.2 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 22% |
| Long Sutton | 5,377 | 5.8 mi | 52.6 | 34% | 20% |
| Marshland St James | 1,025 | 6.1 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 Walpole Cross Keys’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 Walpole Cross Keys’s residents
What is the population of Walpole Cross Keys?
The 2021 Census counted 562 people in Walpole Cross Keys’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Walpole Cross Keys?
The median age was 42.4 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 18% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Walpole Cross Keys?
95% 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 Walpole Cross Keys?
45% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Walpole Cross Keys good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Walpole Cross Keys’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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