Photo: Martin Dawes · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 56.3: Norham is older than 98% of UK towns
By its share of households with dependent children (15%), Norham is below 99% of UK towns. On one-person households, Norham sits higher than 96% of UK towns: 38%. Census day 2021: 610 residents and 290 households in the village. The share of households in flats stands at 0.7%.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 95% of UK towns, at 33%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. 7.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a lower share than in 97% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 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.
Below 98% of UK towns: 3.2% of adults are full-time students
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 Norham, 29% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. At 16%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is higher than in 97% of UK towns. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 94% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Northumberland’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
2.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, more than in 54% of UK towns.
Norham ranks above 94% of UK towns on households in terraced houses: 39%
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
13% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. Norham has fewer households in detached houses than 57% of UK towns, at 27%.
Residents born outside the UK make up 2.1% in Norham, less than in 99% of UK towns
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
Compared with 90% across England’s towns, 100% of residents have English as their main language here. Residents born abroad were most often born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%), then in Africa (0.7%). The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 99% of UK towns: 99%
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: 99% of Norham · Northumberland’s towns 96% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
There is little gap on residents with no religion: 37%, about the same as across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. On the census count, 53% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 83% 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
By its share of married adults and civil partners (46%), Norham is below 64% of UK towns. The census found that just over one in ten residents give unpaid care locally. Across the comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
32% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
32% of Norham’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 17% have none (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Norham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norham | 610 | — | 56.3 | 33% | 15% |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 13,181 | 6.7 mi | 49 | 27% | 23% |
| Duns | 3,117 | 8.1 mi | 49.9 | 27% | 22% |
| Eyemouth | 3,698 | 10.9 mi | 45 | 24% | 27% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Northumberland’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Northumberland (or England), summed the same way as Norham’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 Norham’s residents
What is the population of Norham?
The 2021 Census counted 610 people in Norham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Norham?
The median age was 56.3 at the 2021 Census. 7.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Norham?
99% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 96% across Northumberland’s towns. 2.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Norham?
37% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 8.7% didn’t answer.
Is Norham good for families?
15% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Norham’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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