Photo: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in detached houses: 69%, a higher share than 99% of UK towns
The figure for adults who have never married is 20% in Horringer and 39% across England’s towns. Few places have so few shared households of unrelated adults: 1.6% here, fewer than in 90% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Horringer was home to 763 people in 321 households. 29% of residents are 65 or over.
Horringer is older than 89% of UK towns: a median age of 50.8
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 50–54, with one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Here, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
Fewer full-time students than 83% of UK towns: 4%
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 figure for residents who moved in within the year is 12% in Horringer and 11% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Horringer sits below 87% of UK towns for one-person households (25%)
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.
29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns, against 27% in Horringer. Households here average 2.4 people each. The comparison figure for one-person households is 30% across England’s towns.
Fewer households in terraced houses than 98% of UK towns: 5.1%
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 flats make up 2.5%, against 23% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns. Census figures put households without a car or van at 8.7% in Horringer.
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.8%). The benchmark for residents whose main language is English across England’s towns: 90%. Higher than in 58% of UK towns: 7.2% of residents were born outside the UK.
Horringer ranks above 86% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 57%
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: 94% of Horringer · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 73% across England’s towns, 94% of residents describe themselves as White British here. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. The share of residents with no religion stands at 37%.
61% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 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
15 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. On average, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 7%, the share of unpaid carers is lower than in 96% of UK towns.
Among adults, 37% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Horringer, 37%, and 12% have none, against 18%.
Around Horringer, 1 of 7 towns have a higher 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horringer | 763 | — | 50.8 | 29% | 27% |
| Bury St Edmunds | 41,279 | 2.4 mi | 43.2 | 22% | 23% |
| Barrow | 1,961 | 4 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 27% |
| Great Barton | 1,848 | 5.3 mi | 54.2 | 35% | 23% |
| Thurston | 3,009 | 6.1 mi | 49.1 | 27% | 25% |
| Kentford | 1,124 | 8.2 mi | 39.9 | 19% | 34% |
| Glemsford | 3,693 | 8.5 mi | 46.6 | 25% | 25% |
| Ixworth | 2,296 | 8.6 mi | 49.7 | 27% | 26% |
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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 Horringer’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 Horringer’s residents
What is the population of Horringer?
The 2021 Census counted 763 people in Horringer’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Horringer?
The median age was 50.8 at the 2021 Census. 9.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Horringer?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 7.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Horringer?
37% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Horringer good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Horringer’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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