Fitton Oake · Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in flats make up 0.9% in Wiggenhall St Germans, less than in 99% of UK towns
Set against 21% across England’s towns, 67% of households live in a detached house in Wiggenhall St Germans. At the 2021 Census Wiggenhall St Germans was home to 782 people in 327 households. Here, just over a fifth of households are one person living alone. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 97%, more than in 94% of UK towns.
A median age of 46.6: Wiggenhall St Germans is older than 66% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 65 and over tops nearly two thirds of UK towns: 24%. The largest age band is 50–54: 7.9% of residents.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Wiggenhall St Germans sits below 81% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (7.2%)
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%.
Full-time students: 5.4%, above 71% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Bigger households than 80% of UK towns: 2.4 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.
At 4.3%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is in line with the figure across England’s towns. Locally, 29% of households have dependent children.
Households in terraced houses: 4.9%, a lower share than 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 Wiggenhall St Germans, 7.4% of households have no car or van, beside 24% across England’s towns.
Fewer residents born outside the UK than 81% of UK towns: 3.7%
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
Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%; Wiggenhall St Germans has 98%. For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across England’s towns is 18%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (3.2%), then in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.3%).
A larger share of residents with no religion than 68% of UK towns: 44%
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: 97% of Wiggenhall St Germans · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns, against 51% in Wiggenhall St Germans. Typically, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (1.9%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Caribbean (0.3%).
A lower share of adults who have never married than 79% of UK towns, at 28%
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
By its share of unpaid carers (11%), Wiggenhall St Germans is above just over four fifths of UK towns. Measured more widely, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Census figures put married adults and civil partners at 50% in the village.
Degree-level qualifications reach 22% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Wiggenhall St Germans, 22% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 22% have no qualification at all (18%).
Wiggenhall St Germans is younger than 5 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiggenhall St Germans | 782 | — | 46.6 | 24% | 29% |
| Watlington | 2,593 | 2.4 mi | 43.3 | 20% | 28% |
| West Winch | 2,828 | 2.6 mi | 50.6 | 28% | 26% |
| Tilney St Lawrence | 1,504 | 3.1 mi | 46.7 | 26% | 24% |
| Clenchwarton | 2,020 | 3.9 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 22% |
| Terrington St Clement | 2,792 | 4.7 mi | 47.7 | 27% | 27% |
| King's Lynn | 47,604 | 4.9 mi | 39.3 | 18% | 30% |
| Marshland St James | 1,025 | 4.9 mi | 49.6 | 27% | 24% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Wiggenhall St Germans’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 Wiggenhall St Germans’s residents
What is the population of Wiggenhall St Germans?
The 2021 Census counted 782 people in Wiggenhall St Germans’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wiggenhall St Germans?
The median age was 46.6 at the 2021 Census. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wiggenhall St Germans?
97% 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 Wiggenhall St Germans?
44% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Wiggenhall St Germans good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wiggenhall St Germans’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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