Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0Little Waldingfield is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 55.8
Households with dependent children make up 20%, against 29% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census, 364 people lived in Little Waldingfield, in 159 households. For Little Waldingfield, the census puts households without a car or van at 4.4%. On residents who describe themselves as White British, Little Waldingfield sits higher than 99% of UK towns: 98%.
Little Waldingfield: 33% of residents are 65 or over, above 96% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 12%; Little Waldingfield has 9.1%. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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: 3.4%, a lower share than 96% 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 Little Waldingfield, 40% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 18% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The census found that 14% of residents lived at another address a year earlier locally. Across England’s towns, the share of full-time students is 7.9%.
26% of households are one person living alone, below 82% 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.
The figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 2.5% in Little Waldingfield and 4.3% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, one-person households come to 30%. The average household has 2.3 people.
Little Waldingfield sits below 88% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (10%)
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 are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. The usual figure: 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns. Census figures put households in detached houses at 42% in Little Waldingfield.
Residents born outside the UK make up 2.5% in Little Waldingfield, less than in 96% 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 two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.7%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.6%). Residents whose main language is English are more common here than in 92% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%.
In Little Waldingfield, 59% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 93% 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: 98% of Little Waldingfield · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 37% across England’s towns, just over a third of residents said they have no religion here. The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns is 46%.
Little Waldingfield sits below 99% of UK towns for adults who have never married (21%)
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
The share of married adults and civil partners is 56%, against 44% across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are more common here than in 95% of UK towns. To put it in context, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 31% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 31% of adults in Little Waldingfield, 34% across England’s towns; 21% have no qualification, against 18%.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Little Waldingfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Waldingfield | 364 | — | 55.8 | 33% | 20% |
| Great Waldingfield | 1,377 | 1.5 mi | 51.1 | 30% | 27% |
| Acton | 1,666 | 1.7 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 27% |
| Lavenham | 1,224 | 2.5 mi | 61.6 | 42% | 11% |
| Sudbury | 23,922 | 3.6 mi | 44.9 | 23% | 25% |
| Long Melford | 3,895 | 3.6 mi | 54.5 | 35% | 19% |
| Bildeston | 1,096 | 5 mi | 50.1 | 24% | 24% |
| Glemsford | 3,693 | 6 mi | 46.6 | 25% | 25% |
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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 Little Waldingfield’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 Little Waldingfield’s residents
What is the population of Little Waldingfield?
The 2021 Census counted 364 people in Little Waldingfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Little Waldingfield?
The median age was 55.8 at the 2021 Census. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Little Waldingfield?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 2.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Little Waldingfield?
34% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.3% didn’t answer.
Is Little Waldingfield good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Little Waldingfield’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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