Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.02.2% of households live in a terraced house, below 99% of UK towns
Nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, against 12% in Walpole Highway. In Walpole Highway, 62% of households live in a detached house. The village has fewer households with dependent children than 86% of UK towns, at 23%. At the 2021 Census, 798 people lived here, in 310 households.
Half of Walpole Highway is over 48.7, older than 78% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Set against 12% across England’s towns, 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Walpole Highway. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 26% locally.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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: 3.9%, a lower share than 87% 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%.
6.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier (England’s towns: 11%). Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
One-person households: 25%, a lower share than 86% 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.
Nothing unusual on shared households of unrelated adults: 4.2%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, one-person households come to 30%. There are 2.5 people in the average household.
Walpole Highway ranks below 84% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 9.6%
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 flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. One household in 10 has no car or van.
Fewer residents born abroad than 79% of UK towns: 3.9%
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 abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.5%), then in the Middle East and Asia (0.8%). 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 82% of UK towns. Against that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 95%, a higher share than 77% 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 Highway · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
38% of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. Locally, 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as White British come to 73%.
Walpole Highway ranks above 60% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 50%
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
Adults who have never married: 31% here and 39% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 16%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Walpole Highway’s adults: 16% with a degree-level qualification and 33% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Walpole Highway sits below 1 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 Highway | 798 | — | 48.7 | 26% | 23% |
| Tilney St Lawrence | 1,504 | 1.6 mi | 46.7 | 26% | 24% |
| Walpole St Peter and Walpole St Andrew | 1,574 | 2 mi | 46.9 | 21% | 29% |
| Marshland St James | 1,025 | 2.6 mi | 49.6 | 27% | 24% |
| Wisbech | 26,800 | 3.9 mi | 41.7 | 20% | 28% |
| Terrington St Clement | 2,792 | 4.4 mi | 47.7 | 27% | 27% |
| Elm and Emneth | 4,555 | 4.6 mi | 47.8 | 25% | 25% |
| Leverington | 1,694 | 4.7 mi | 47.2 | 29% | 25% |
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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 Highway’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 Highway’s residents
What is the population of Walpole Highway?
The 2021 Census counted 798 people in Walpole Highway’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Walpole Highway?
The median age was 48.7 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Walpole Highway?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 3.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Walpole Highway?
38% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.8% didn’t answer.
Is Walpole Highway good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Walpole Highway’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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