Photo: Adrian Cable · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 59.5: Coldfair Green is older than 99% of UK towns
Compared with 23% across England’s towns, 0.6% of households live in a flat or apartment here. Coldfair Green’s 360 households held 794 residents at the 2021 Census. Census figures put residents who describe themselves as White British at 97% in the village. At 8.3%, the share of households without a car or van is lower than in 91% of UK towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 99% of UK towns: 41%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 70–74 than any other five-year age: just over one in ten residents, 2.3 times the share across England’s towns. At 7.9%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is lower than in 93% of UK 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 94 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.
In Coldfair Green, 3.6% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 93% 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%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 7.2%, against 11% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 7.9% of adults are full-time students.
Coldfair Green sits below 99% of UK towns for households with dependent children (16%)
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, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; in Coldfair Green, 0.8%. The usual figure: 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. On average, 2.1 people share a household. Few places have as many one-person households: 30% here, more than in 55% of UK towns.
Above 91% of UK towns: 52% of households live in a detached house
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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses in Coldfair Green comes in at 10%. Households in detached houses: 21% across England’s towns, for comparison.
3.3% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 87% 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
99% of residents have English as their main language (England’s towns: 90%). Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2%) and in Africa (0.9%). As a reference point, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 52%, a higher share than 62% 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: 97% of Coldfair Green · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Nearly two in five residents said they have no religion; across England’s towns the figure is 37%. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
23% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 97% 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
26 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Married adults and civil partners are more common here than in 89% of UK towns. Adults who have never married make up 39% across England’s towns. Here 11% of residents give unpaid care, where the figure across England’s towns is 8.7%.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 27% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
22% of Coldfair Green’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 27% have one at degree level (34%).
Coldfair Green and its 7 nearest towns: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coldfair Green | 794 | — | 59.5 | 41% | 16% |
| Leiston | 5,919 | 1 mi | 47.2 | 25% | 22% |
| Aldeburgh | 2,423 | 2.8 mi | 61.9 | 44% | 12% |
| Saxmundham | 4,778 | 3.7 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 27% |
| Rendlesham | 3,185 | 7.7 mi | 40.6 | 17% | 35% |
| Wickham Market | 2,231 | 8.8 mi | 52 | 33% | 21% |
| Framlingham | 3,831 | 9.5 mi | 48.2 | 27% | 27% |
| Halesworth | 4,924 | 10.6 mi | 54 | 35% | 18% |
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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 Coldfair Green’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 Coldfair Green’s residents
What is the population of Coldfair Green?
The 2021 Census counted 794 people in Coldfair Green’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Coldfair Green?
The median age was 59.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 41% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Coldfair Green?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 3.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Coldfair Green?
39% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 8.8% didn’t answer.
Is Coldfair Green good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Coldfair Green’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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