Photo: Bernd Jatzwauk Pommes104 · CC BY-SA 3.0Half of East Bergholt is over 52.8, older than 94% of UK towns
With households in detached houses at 66%, East Bergholt is ahead of 98% of UK towns on that count. In East Bergholt, 11% of households live in a terraced house. On married adults and civil partners, East Bergholt sits higher than 92% of UK towns: 57%. There were 936 households in the village at the 2021 Census, home to 2,211 residents.
What the Census says about East Bergholt’s people
Older than most towns
Half of East Bergholt’s residents are under 52.8 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 30% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
More residents aged 65 and over than 92% of UK towns: 30%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 50–54, with 8.8% of residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Here, one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
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.
6.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 94% 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%.
Across England’s towns, the share of full-time students is 7.9%; East Bergholt has 6.4%. For comparison, just over one in ten 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.
A lower share of one-person households than 80% of UK towns, at 26%
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.
A household here has 2.3 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. One-person households make up 30% across England’s towns. The census found that a quarter of households have dependent children in East Bergholt. Few places have so few shared households of unrelated adults: 2.1% here, fewer than in 62% of UK towns.
East Bergholt sits below 93% of UK towns for households in flats (2.9%)
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
Compared with 24% across England’s towns, 8% of households have no car or van here. As a reference point, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 88% of UK towns don’t reach
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Across England’s towns, 21% of those born abroad arrived in 2017 or later; here, 6.8%. For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across England’s towns is 90%. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.6%).
East Bergholt: 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 75% 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: 94% of East Bergholt · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 94%, above 63% of UK towns. For comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. In East Bergholt, two in five residents said they have no religion.
In East Bergholt, 24% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 95% 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
10% of residents give unpaid care, against 8.7% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 39%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 39% of East Bergholt’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 14% have no qualification (18%). A levels top the qualifications of 13%, many of them students on the way to a degree.
A younger town than 1 of the 7 around it: East Bergholt
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Bergholt | 2,211 | — | 52.8 | 30% | 25% |
| Capel St Mary | 2,992 | 2.1 mi | 50.7 | 31% | 25% |
| Brantham | 2,081 | 2.1 mi | 45.9 | 23% | 28% |
| Lawford | 4,488 | 2.9 mi | 43.6 | 21% | 29% |
| Manningtree | 1,676 | 3 mi | 53.7 | 34% | 15% |
| Mistley | 1,827 | 3.8 mi | 43.7 | 21% | 22% |
| Ardleigh | 1,042 | 3.9 mi | 46.9 | 23% | 26% |
| Bradfield | 1,254 | 5.1 mi | 52.2 | 31% | 26% |
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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.
- “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 East Bergholt’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 East Bergholt’s residents
What is the population of East Bergholt?
The 2021 Census counted 2,211 people in East Bergholt’s built-up area.
What is the average age in East Bergholt?
The median age was 52.8 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is East Bergholt?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in East Bergholt?
40% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is East Bergholt good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on East Bergholt’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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