Newbourne Hall · Photo: John Sutton · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 56.5: Newbourne is older than 98% of UK towns
Households without a car or van: 3%, below 99% of UK towns. Here, 19% of households have dependent children. Lower than in 84% of UK towns: 25% of households are one person living alone. Newbourne is home to 312 residents in 130 households, by the 2021 Census.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 96% of UK towns, at 34%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 60–64: just over one in ten residents, 1.9 times the share across England’s towns. Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than in 99% of UK towns: 7%. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 2.5%, a lower share than 99% 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%.
6.7% of residents lived at another address a year before the Census, against 11% across England’s towns. Full-time students: 7.9% across England’s towns, for comparison.
2.4 people per household, more than in 71% 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.
At 4.6%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is in line with the figure across England’s towns.
Fewer households in flats than 99% of UK towns: 0.8%
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
70% of households live in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. At 3.8%, the share of households in terraced houses is lower than in 98% of UK towns. The share of households in flats across England’s towns is 23%.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Newbourne, more than in 88% 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 largest groups were born in EU countries (1.9%) and in Africa (1.3%). Newbourne has fewer residents born outside the UK than 56% of UK towns, at 5.8%. Across England’s towns, 90% of residents have English as their main language.
Newbourne: 94% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 65% 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: 94% of Newbourne · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 51% in Newbourne and 46% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The share of residents with no religion stands at 39%.
Married adults and civil partners: 55%, a higher share than 87% 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
On unpaid carers, 9% here is much the same as across England’s towns. Here, 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. The usual figure: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Among adults, 36% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 36% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 15% hold no qualification (18%).
Newbourne is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newbourne | 312 | — | 56.5 | 34% | 19% |
| Kirton | 1,245 | 2.2 mi | 51.8 | 28% | 24% |
| Martlesham Heath | 2,730 | 2.2 mi | 54.5 | 34% | 18% |
| Martlesham | 1,976 | 2.7 mi | 47.8 | 28% | 28% |
| Trimley St Martin | 1,725 | 3.2 mi | 45.9 | 21% | 24% |
| Kesgrave | 14,947 | 3.3 mi | 44.1 | 20% | 33% |
| Woodbridge | 10,146 | 3.9 mi | 53.3 | 33% | 21% |
| Trimley St Mary | 3,736 | 4.1 mi | 48.4 | 25% | 24% |
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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 Newbourne’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 Newbourne’s residents
What is the population of Newbourne?
The 2021 Census counted 312 people in Newbourne’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Newbourne?
The median age was 56.5 at the 2021 Census. 7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Newbourne?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 5.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Newbourne?
39% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 9.6% didn’t answer.
Is Newbourne good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Newbourne’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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