Photo: Andrew Hill · CC BY-SA 2.0Gazeley ranks below 97% of UK towns on households in flats: 1.8%
6% of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. For Gazeley, the census puts households with dependent children at 22%. Higher than in 77% of UK towns: 26% of residents are 65 or over. The village had 737 residents and 330 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 48.7.
Older than 78% of UK towns: half of Gazeley is over 48.7
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 trails 79% of UK towns: 8.8%. The biggest five-year age group is 50–54, with 9.8% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
Full-time students: 3.7%, a lower share than 92% 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%.
The share of residents who moved in within the year is 8.2%, against 11% across England’s towns. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
2.2 people per household, fewer than in 76% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.1%, below 63% of UK towns. One-person households account for 29%.
Only 8.1% of households have no car or van in Gazeley
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
Households in detached houses: 41% here and 21% across England’s towns. As a reference point, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
More residents whose main language is English than 92% of UK towns: 99%
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 share of residents born outside the UK tops 76% of UK towns: 10%. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (6%) and in EU countries (3%). Against that, 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 91% of UK towns, at 58%
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: 92% of Gazeley · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 37%; Gazeley has 34%. Locally, 92% of residents describe themselves as White British. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
29% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 78% 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
18 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Higher than in 73% of UK towns: 52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. The figure for unpaid carers is 10% in Gazeley and 8.7% across England’s towns.
35% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 35% of adults in Gazeley, 34% across England’s towns; 19% have no qualification, against 18%.
Every neighbour of Gazeley has a younger population
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Gazeley’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 Gazeley’s residents
What is the population of Gazeley?
The 2021 Census counted 737 people in Gazeley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Gazeley?
The median age was 48.7 at the 2021 Census. 8.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Gazeley?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 10% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Gazeley?
34% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Gazeley good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Gazeley’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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