Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Bedfield is over 52.2, older than 92% of UK towns
By its share of households in detached houses (70%), Bedfield is above 99% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Bedfield was home to 354 people in 155 households. The share of households in flats stands at 2.6%. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 25%, fewer than in 93% of UK towns.
Bedfield ranks below 86% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 8.5%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The figure for residents aged 65 and over is 27% in Bedfield and 18% across England’s towns. On average, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 83 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.
More residents who moved in within the year than 86% of UK towns: 11%
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%.
Against a figure of 7.9% across England’s towns, the share of full-time students in Bedfield comes in at 5%. 43% of the village’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns.
Only 21% of households in Bedfield have dependent children
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Suffolk’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Across England’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is 4.3%; Bedfield has 1.9%. Set beside that, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. On the census count, 23% of households are one person living alone.
In Bedfield, 3.9% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 99% 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
Nearly one in ten households live in a terraced house; across England’s towns the figure is 24%.
Bedfield: 100% of residents have English as their main language, above 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
Most residents from abroad were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%) or in EU countries (1.1%). Set beside that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. 3.4% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 86% of UK towns.
98% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 99% 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: 98% of Bedfield · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
55% of residents describe themselves as Christian (England’s towns: 46%). On the census count, 38% of residents said they have no religion. Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British.
More married adults and civil partners than 93% of UK towns: 57%
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
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 2 people. Across England’s towns, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Bedfield has fewer unpaid carers than 98% of UK towns, at 6.6%.
Among adults, 39% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
17% of Bedfield’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 39% have one at degree level (34%).
Bedfield and its 7 nearest towns: 3 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedfield | 354 | — | 52.2 | 27% | 21% |
| Debenham | 2,294 | 3.7 mi | 49.7 | 29% | 27% |
| Framlingham | 3,831 | 4.4 mi | 48.2 | 27% | 27% |
| Stradbroke | 1,190 | 4.6 mi | 54.5 | 35% | 20% |
| Laxfield | 1,004 | 5.8 mi | 52.3 | 28% | 19% |
| Eye | 2,211 | 6.6 mi | 52.4 | 33% | 21% |
| Mendlesham | 1,018 | 7.2 mi | 47 | 29% | 23% |
| Wickham Market | 2,231 | 8.3 mi | 52 | 33% | 21% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Suffolk’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Suffolk (or England), summed the same way as Bedfield’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 Bedfield’s residents
What is the population of Bedfield?
The 2021 Census counted 354 people in Bedfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bedfield?
The median age was 52.2 at the 2021 Census. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bedfield?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 3.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bedfield?
38% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Bedfield good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bedfield’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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