Photo: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in terraced houses: 1%, a lower share than 99% of UK towns
Married adults and civil partners: 60%, above 98% of UK towns. 483 residents in 195 households: that is Ingham at the 2021 Census. One-person households: just over a fifth of the total. Few places have as many households in detached houses: 55% here, more than in 94% of UK towns.
Ingham is older than 65% of UK towns: a median age of 46.5
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across England’s towns, 18% of residents are 65 or over; in Ingham, 24%. More residents are 45–49 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns.
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.
A higher share of full-time students than 58% of UK towns, at 5%
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 41% of Ingham’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 19%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Ingham households average 2.5 people, larger than in 86% 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.
With shared households of unrelated adults at 2.6%, Ingham is ahead of 61% of UK towns on that count. Across Ingham, a quarter of households have dependent children.
Ingham sits below 99% of UK towns for households without a car or van (4.6%)
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 1.6%, against 23% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
A larger share of residents born outside the UK than 83% of UK towns: 13%
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
97% of residents have English as their main language (England’s towns: 90%). The share of residents born outside the UK across England’s towns is 18%. Most residents from abroad were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (6.6%) or in EU countries (4.4%).
A smaller share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 71% of UK towns: 88%
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: 88% of Ingham · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion is 42%, against 37% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are common here: 50%, more than in 52% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 73% across England’s towns. Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (7.4%), Mixed or multiple (1.2%) and Indian (1%).
Unpaid carers: 6.4%, a lower share than 98% 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
27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, against 39% across England’s towns. Typically, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns.
32% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 32% of adults in Ingham (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 18% (England’s towns: 18%).
Ingham sits below 3 of its 7 closest neighbours on 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingham | 483 | — | 46.5 | 24% | 25% |
| Great Barton | 1,848 | 3.3 mi | 54.2 | 35% | 23% |
| Bury St Edmunds | 41,279 | 3.8 mi | 43.2 | 22% | 23% |
| Ixworth | 2,296 | 4.9 mi | 49.7 | 27% | 26% |
| Thurston | 3,009 | 5.3 mi | 49.1 | 27% | 25% |
| Barrow | 1,961 | 7.1 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 27% |
| Stanton | 2,316 | 7.1 mi | 44.3 | 22% | 28% |
| Thetford | 25,502 | 7.8 mi | 38.5 | 16% | 31% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Ingham’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 Ingham’s residents
What is the population of Ingham?
The 2021 Census counted 483 people in Ingham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ingham?
The median age was 46.5 at the 2021 Census. 9.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ingham?
88% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 13% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ingham?
42% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Ingham good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ingham’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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