Photo: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 98% of UK towns: half of Chevington is over 57.3
17% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership (England’s towns: 39%). On the census count, 6.5% of households live in a terraced house. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. There were 137 households in Chevington at the 2021 Census, home to 301 residents.
Chevington ranks above 99% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 38%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 8.1% in Chevington and 12% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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 84% of UK towns: 7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 42% of Chevington’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 23%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. For comparison, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Locally, 4.5% of adults are full-time students.
Households with dependent children make up 17% in Chevington, less than in 98% of UK towns
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.
28% of households are one person living alone; across England’s towns the figure is 30%. Each household has 2.2 people on average. Chevington has more shared households of unrelated adults than 88% of UK towns, at 3.7%. The share of households with dependent children across England’s towns is 29%.
In Chevington, 2.9% 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
70% of households live in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. Households without a car or van make up 24% across England’s towns.
Above 99% of UK towns: 100% of residents have English as their main language
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
By its share of residents born outside the UK (5%), Chevington is below 64% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.3%) and in EU countries (1.3%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 96%, a higher share than 84% 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: 96% of Chevington · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 40%, below 57% of UK towns. Across Chevington, 53% of residents describe themselves as Christian. The wider picture: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
63% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 99% 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
Some 15 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Set beside that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 11%, the share of unpaid carers is higher than in 87% of UK towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 33%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Chevington, 33%, and 19% have none, against 18%.
Chevington is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chevington | 301 | — | 57.3 | 38% | 17% |
| Barrow | 1,961 | 2.7 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 27% |
| Bury St Edmunds | 41,279 | 5.1 mi | 43.2 | 22% | 23% |
| Cock and End | 1,346 | 6.4 mi | 34.9 | 3% | 21% |
| Kentford | 1,124 | 6.6 mi | 39.9 | 19% | 34% |
| Glemsford | 3,693 | 7.8 mi | 46.6 | 25% | 25% |
| Great Barton | 1,848 | 8 mi | 54.2 | 35% | 23% |
| Red Lodge | 5,771 | 8.3 mi | 30.9 | 6.1% | 38% |
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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 Chevington’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 Chevington’s residents
What is the population of Chevington?
The 2021 Census counted 301 people in Chevington’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Chevington?
The median age was 57.3 at the 2021 Census. 8.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 38% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Chevington?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Chevington?
40% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.3% didn’t answer.
Is Chevington good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Chevington’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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