Photo: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 27.2: Holywell Row is younger than 99% of UK towns
Households in detached houses make up 84%, against 21% across England’s towns. Locally, 2.2% of households live in a terraced house. At 37%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is lower than in 96% of UK towns. There were 273 households in Holywell Row at the 2021 Census, home to 517 residents.
Holywell Row sits below 97% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (7.5%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns, against 13% in Holywell Row. As a yardstick, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
36% women, 64% men
About 56 women for every 100 men. Across England, 51% of residents are women. A large institution, such as a prison, barracks, boarding school, university or care home, can tilt a town’s split: the census counts the people living there as residents.
A smaller share of full-time students than 61% of UK towns: 4.6%
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%.
At 11%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is in line with the figure across England’s towns. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Holywell Row sits above 99% of UK towns for one-person households (46%)
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 figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 1.8% in Holywell Row and 4.3% across England’s towns. A quarter of households have dependent children, a lower share than in 69% of UK towns. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison. On average, 1.9 people share a household.
Below 99% of UK towns: 1.1% of households live in a flat or apartment
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 70% of UK towns: 12%. The comparison figure for households in flats is 23% across England’s towns.
Holywell Row: 37% of residents were born outside the UK, above 98% 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 45%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (31%) and in EU countries (3.3%). Holywell Row has fewer residents whose main language is English than 53% of UK towns, at 98%. Residents born outside the UK make up 18% across England’s towns. Since 2017: 84% of those born abroad, against 21% across England’s towns.
59% of residents describe themselves as White British, fewer than in 97% of UK towns
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: 59% of Holywell Row · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 37%; Holywell Row has 39%. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (31%), Mixed or multiple (8%) and African (0.2%). Set beside that, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Married adults and civil partners: 64%, a higher share than 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
Across England’s towns, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; in Holywell Row, 21%. On the census count, 6.2% of residents give unpaid care. By way of comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Among adults, 29% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
29% of Holywell Row’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 25% have none (18%).
Holywell Row and its 7 nearest towns: 6 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holywell Row | 517 | — | 27.2 | 13% | 25% |
| Beck Row | 4,129 | 1.1 mi | 31.4 | 11% | 34% |
| Mildenhall | 9,684 | 1.2 mi | 38.2 | 19% | 26% |
| Little Eriswell | 4,120 | 2 mi | 23.9 | 0.7% | 54% |
| Lakenheath | 4,567 | 3.4 mi | 42.7 | 23% | 22% |
| Red Lodge | 5,771 | 4.3 mi | 30.9 | 6.1% | 38% |
| Isleham | 2,287 | 4.3 mi | 44.6 | 23% | 28% |
| Fordham | 2,566 | 6.3 mi | 44.5 | 21% | 29% |
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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 Holywell Row’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 Holywell Row’s residents
What is the population of Holywell Row?
The 2021 Census counted 517 people in Holywell Row’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Holywell Row?
The median age was 27.2 at the 2021 Census. 7.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 13% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Holywell Row?
59% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 37% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Holywell Row?
39% said they had no religion and 37% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 23% didn’t answer.
Is Holywell Row good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Holywell Row’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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