Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.06.7% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 96% of UK towns
Households in detached houses: 50%, above 89% of UK towns. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 94% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 844 people lived in Great Finborough, in 349 households. On the census count, just over a third of households are one person living alone.
Great Finborough is older than 72% of UK towns: a median age of 47.5
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 10–14: 9.2% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Great Finborough has more residents aged 65 and over than 70% of UK towns, at 25%. In Great Finborough, one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students make up 4.6% in Great Finborough, less than in 60% 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%.
Nearly two fifths of Great Finborough’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 20% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Here, 8.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Households with dependent children: 24%, a lower share than 81% 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.
The average household has 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
Few flats: only 2.6% of households in Great Finborough live in one
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
Terraced houses are home to 18% of households, against 24% across England’s towns. Households in flats: 23% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Great Finborough ranks above 61% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 98%
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
6.9% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.4%), then in Africa (1.7%). On average, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Below 84% of UK towns: 34% of residents said they have no religion
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 Great Finborough · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
In Great Finborough, 53% of residents describe themselves as Christian, beside 46% across England’s towns. 92% of residents describe themselves as White British. To put it in context, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
In Great Finborough, 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 80% 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
Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 7.7%. For Great Finborough, the census puts married adults and civil partners at 52%. As a reference point, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Among adults, 34% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 34% of its adults qualified to degree level, Great Finborough compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 15% hold no qualification (18%).
Nearby, 4 of 7 towns have older populations than Great Finborough
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Finborough | 844 | — | 47.5 | 25% | 24% |
| Stowmarket | 21,537 | 2.2 mi | 40.2 | 19% | 29% |
| Haughley | 1,316 | 2.9 mi | 48.8 | 29% | 21% |
| Stowupland | 2,019 | 3.4 mi | 47.6 | 28% | 24% |
| Woolpit | 1,838 | 3.7 mi | 52 | 31% | 21% |
| Elmswell | 4,446 | 4.1 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 27% |
| Great Bricett | 1,518 | 4.2 mi | 28.2 | 8.8% | 40% |
| Needham Market | 5,055 | 4.8 mi | 50 | 28% | 19% |
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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 Great Finborough’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 Great Finborough’s residents
What is the population of Great Finborough?
The 2021 Census counted 844 people in Great Finborough’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Great Finborough?
The median age was 47.5 at the 2021 Census. 9.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Great Finborough?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 6.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Great Finborough?
34% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 10% didn’t answer.
Is Great Finborough good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Great Finborough’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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