Photo: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 12% of households have dependent children in Fornham All Saints
The median age in Fornham All Saints is 50.7, higher than in 88% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Fornham All Saints was home to 801 people in 447 households. The census found that 49% of households are one person living alone locally. Households in detached houses: 64% here and 21% across England’s towns.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 5.5% in Fornham All Saints, less than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Nearly a third of residents are 65 or over (England’s towns: 18%). By way of comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 121 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
3.3% of adults are full-time students, below 96% 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%.
15% of residents lived at another address a year before the Census, against 11% across England’s towns. The share of full-time students across England’s towns is 7.9%.
Households here average 1.8 people, below 99% 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.
2.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across England’s towns the figure is 4.3%.
32% of households have no car or van, a share 96% of UK towns don’t reach
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 23% across England’s towns, the share of households in flats in Fornham All Saints comes in at 5.3%. In one household in 3 there is no car or van. Lower than in 93% of UK towns: 8% of households live in a terraced house.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Fornham All Saints, more than in 97% 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
The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (3.6%) and in EU countries (2.4%). Residents born outside the UK are more common here than in 62% of UK towns. The wider picture: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Fornham All Saints sits above 83% of UK towns for residents with no religion (46%)
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: 95% of Fornham All Saints · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 95% in Fornham All Saints and 73% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. In Fornham All Saints, 49% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
16% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 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
23 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Typically, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers: 9.2%, near enough the figure across England’s towns.
Among adults, 27% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
20% of Fornham All Saints’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 27% have one at degree level (34%).
Fornham All Saints sits below 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fornham All Saints | 801 | — | 50.7 | 32% | 12% |
| Bury St Edmunds | 41,279 | 2 mi | 43.2 | 22% | 23% |
| Great Barton | 1,848 | 3.4 mi | 54.2 | 35% | 23% |
| Thurston | 3,009 | 5.2 mi | 49.1 | 27% | 25% |
| Barrow | 1,961 | 5.2 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 27% |
| Ixworth | 2,296 | 6.2 mi | 49.7 | 27% | 26% |
| Kentford | 1,124 | 8.4 mi | 39.9 | 19% | 34% |
| Red Lodge | 5,771 | 8.6 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 Fornham All Saints’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 Fornham All Saints’s residents
What is the population of Fornham All Saints?
The 2021 Census counted 801 people in Fornham All Saints’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Fornham All Saints?
The median age was 50.7 at the 2021 Census. 5.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Fornham All Saints?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 7.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Fornham All Saints?
46% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.2% didn’t answer.
Is Fornham All Saints good for families?
12% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Fornham All Saints’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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