Photo: Christopher Hilton · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer households in flats than 99% of UK towns: 0.6%
Compared with 18% across England’s towns, 31% of residents are 65 or over here. Married adults and civil partners are more common here than in 97% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 376 residents and 166 households in Eyke. Households without a car or van account for 5.4%.
Half of Eyke is over 50.9, older than 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
10% of residents are aged 15 to 24; across England’s towns the figure is 12%. In Halesworth, the oldest of Suffolk’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Eyke ranks below 96% of UK towns on full-time students: 3.4%
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%.
By class, 37% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 21% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Across Eyke, 5.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. As a reference point, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Fewer one-person households than 89% of UK towns: 24%
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 quarter of households have dependent children, against 29% across England’s towns. On shared households of unrelated adults, Eyke sits higher than just over three quarters of UK towns: 3%. The wider picture: 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. The average household has 2.3 people.
Households in detached houses make up 50% in Eyke, more than in 90% 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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses in Eyke comes in at 10%. Meanwhile, 0.6% of households live in a flat, less than in 99% of UK towns; 50% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
More residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns: 100%
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
18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, against 5.3% in Eyke. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.1%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.9%). Elsewhere, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 84% of UK towns, at 56%
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: 93% of Eyke · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 37% across England’s towns, nearly two in five residents said they have no religion here. The usual figure: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who describe themselves as White British at 93% in Eyke.
Below 80% of UK towns: 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
For 10 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Unpaid carers are rarer here than in 77% of UK towns. To put it in context, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
36% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Eyke counts 36% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 16% have no qualification (18%).
Eyke sits below 2 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyke | 376 | — | 50.9 | 31% | 25% |
| Rendlesham | 3,185 | 1.6 mi | 40.6 | 17% | 35% |
| Sutton Common | 1,262 | 2.3 mi | 29 | 12% | 43% |
| Melton | 1,608 | 2.4 mi | 50.3 | 26% | 21% |
| Wickham Market | 2,231 | 2.8 mi | 52 | 33% | 21% |
| Woodbridge | 10,146 | 3.4 mi | 53.3 | 33% | 21% |
| Martlesham | 1,976 | 5.4 mi | 47.8 | 28% | 28% |
| Grundisburgh | 1,424 | 5.8 mi | 49 | 27% | 28% |
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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 Eyke’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 Eyke’s residents
What is the population of Eyke?
The 2021 Census counted 376 people in Eyke’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Eyke?
The median age was 50.9 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Eyke?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 5.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Eyke?
39% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Eyke good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Eyke’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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