Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Newton is over 54.4, older than 96% of UK towns
0.9% of households live in a flat or apartment (England’s towns: 23%). Newton is home to 549 residents in 236 households, by the 2021 Census. On the census count, 64% of households live in a detached house. Few places have so few households with dependent children: 19% here, fewer than in 97% of UK towns.
Newton: 32% of residents are 65 or over, above 94% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 12% across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 here. The usual figure: 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 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.
Only 3.3% of adults are full-time students in Newton
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%.
At 11%, residents who moved in within the year sit close to the figure across England’s towns. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
A smaller share of one-person households than 81% of UK towns: 26%
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.
In Newton the average household is 2.3 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. For Newton, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 5.5%.
Households in terraced houses make up 6.4% in Newton, less than in 96% of UK towns
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
The share of households without a car or van trails 88% of UK towns: 8.9%. The benchmark for households in terraced houses across England’s towns: 24%.
99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 98% 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
3.6% of residents were born outside the UK (England’s towns: 18%). Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.6%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.1%).
In Newton, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 81% 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: 95% of Newton · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
By its share of residents who describe themselves as Christian (52%), Newton is above nearly two thirds of UK towns. Add to that, on residents with no religion, Newton sits higher than 56% of UK towns: 42%. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 73% across England’s towns. Of the other groups, the largest are Mixed or multiple (2.2%), Other White (1.7%) and Chinese (0.2%).
Newton sits above 97% of UK towns for unpaid carers (12%)
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
Here nearly a quarter of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, where the figure across England’s towns is 39%. The usual figure: nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. The share of married adults and civil partners stands at 56%.
35% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 35% of adults in Newton (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 20% (England’s towns: 18%).
Newton sits below 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton | 549 | — | 54.4 | 32% | 19% |
| Great Waldingfield | 1,377 | 1.7 mi | 51.1 | 30% | 27% |
| Sudbury | 23,922 | 2.2 mi | 44.9 | 23% | 25% |
| Acton | 1,666 | 2.7 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 27% |
| Bures | 1,183 | 4.1 mi | 48.4 | 27% | 25% |
| Long Melford | 3,895 | 4.4 mi | 54.5 | 35% | 19% |
| Lavenham | 1,224 | 5.2 mi | 61.6 | 42% | 11% |
| Glemsford | 3,693 | 7 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 Newton’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 Newton’s residents
What is the population of Newton?
The 2021 Census counted 549 people in Newton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Newton?
The median age was 54.4 at the 2021 Census. 8.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Newton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 3.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Newton?
42% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Newton good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Newton’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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