Photo: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 93% of UK towns: half of Holton is over 52.5
Against a figure of 23% across England’s towns, the share of households in flats in Holton comes in at 0.4%. The village counted 529 residents and 235 households at the 2021 Census. Census figures put households in detached houses at 49% locally. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 85% of UK towns.
Holton: 32% of residents are 65 or over, above 94% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 12% across England’s towns, 7.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24 here. Across England’s towns, 18% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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 make up 4.1% in Holton, less than in 82% 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%.
In Holton, 28% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 29% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. For Holton, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 7.9%.
In Holton, 23% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 87% 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.
A household here has 2.3 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. The benchmark for households with dependent children across England’s towns: 29%. For Holton, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 3.4%. Higher than in 54% of UK towns: 30% of households are one person living alone.
Fewer households in terraced houses than 73% of UK towns: 15%
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
The share of households without a car or van trails 66% of UK towns: 13%. Elsewhere, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 94% 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 EU countries (2.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.1%). As a yardstick, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. At 4.2%, the share of residents born outside the UK is lower than in three quarters of UK towns.
Holton sits above 89% of UK towns for residents with no religion (48%)
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: 96% of Holton · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (2.1%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Indian (0.4%). Measured more widely, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. At 96%, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is higher than in 84% of UK towns. By contrast, 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian (England’s towns: 46%).
In Holton, 10% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 68% 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
44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns, against 49% in Holton. Across England’s towns, unpaid carers come to 8.7%.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 24% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 24% of its adults qualified to degree level, Holton compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 23% hold no qualification (18%).
Holton is younger than 2 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holton | 529 | — | 52.5 | 32% | 23% |
| Halesworth | 4,924 | 0.7 mi | 54 | 35% | 18% |
| Reydon | 2,369 | 6.1 mi | 59.2 | 40% | 17% |
| Laxfield | 1,004 | 7.4 mi | 52.3 | 28% | 19% |
| Beccles | 9,807 | 7.6 mi | 48.6 | 28% | 22% |
| Worlingham | 3,618 | 7.7 mi | 50.1 | 29% | 24% |
| Bungay | 5,012 | 8.1 mi | 49.2 | 29% | 23% |
| Saxmundham | 4,778 | 9 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 27% |
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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 Holton’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 Holton’s residents
What is the population of Holton?
The 2021 Census counted 529 people in Holton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Holton?
The median age was 52.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Holton?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 4.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Holton?
48% said they had no religion and 43% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.8% didn’t answer.
Is Holton good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Holton’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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