Photo: Christopher Hilton · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 93% of UK towns: half of Laxfield is over 52.3
Households with dependent children make up 19%, against 29% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census Laxfield was home to 1,004 people in 465 households. Census figures put households in detached houses at 49% here. The village has more residents who describe themselves as White British than 90% of UK towns, at 96%.
What the Census says about Laxfield’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Laxfield’s residents are under 52.3 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
7.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 93% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 60–64: one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Across Laxfield, 28% of residents are 65 or over. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Laxfield sits below 89% of UK towns for full-time students (3.8%)
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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Laxfield has 34% and 22%. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: a tenth of the total.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 83% 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.
By its share of one-person households (31%), Laxfield is above 64% of UK towns. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 1.9%.
Laxfield ranks below 79% of UK towns on households in terraced houses: 13%
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
Flats are home to 6.7% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. To put it in context, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns. Here, 11% of households have no car or van.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns: 100%
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 share of residents born outside the UK trails nearly four fifths of UK towns: 3.9%. Set beside that, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.1%).
Residents with no religion make up 40% in Laxfield, less than in 57% 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: 96% of Laxfield · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (1.5%), Mixed or multiple (1.2%) and Indian (0.1%). Just over half of residents describe themselves as Christian, a higher share than in 56% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, residents with no religion come to 37%.
Only 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Laxfield
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 25 residents. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 52%, more than in just over three quarters of UK towns. Typically, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 8.6%.
Among adults, 31% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Laxfield, 31% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 19% have no qualification at all (18%).
Around Laxfield, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laxfield | 1,004 | — | 52.3 | 28% | 19% |
| Stradbroke | 1,190 | 4 mi | 54.5 | 35% | 20% |
| Framlingham | 3,831 | 5.6 mi | 48.2 | 27% | 27% |
| Halesworth | 4,924 | 6.6 mi | 54 | 35% | 18% |
| Harleston | 5,077 | 7.4 mi | 47.6 | 29% | 24% |
| Saxmundham | 4,778 | 7.7 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 27% |
| Eye | 2,211 | 9.3 mi | 52.4 | 33% | 21% |
| Debenham | 2,294 | 9.4 mi | 49.7 | 29% | 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 Laxfield’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 Laxfield’s residents
What is the population of Laxfield?
The 2021 Census counted 1,004 people in Laxfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Laxfield?
The median age was 52.3 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Laxfield?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 3.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Laxfield?
40% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 8% didn’t answer.
Is Laxfield good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Laxfield’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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