Photo: Andrew Hill · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 95% of UK towns: 1.4%
Residents who describe themselves as White British are more common here than in just over four fifths of UK towns. Old Newton’s 360 households held 799 residents at the 2021 Census. Census figures put households in flats at 6.9% locally. With households with dependent children at 24%, Old Newton is behind 78% of UK towns on that count.
A median age of 47.3: Old Newton is older than 71% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Nearly a quarter of Old Newton is 65 or over, against 23% across Suffolk’s towns and 18% across England’s towns. In Halesworth, the oldest of Suffolk’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Old Newton ranks below 86% of UK towns on full-time students: 3.9%
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 Old Newton, a third of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 25% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 6.6% locally.
Old Newton households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 73% 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.
Set against 30% across England’s towns, nearly a third of households are one person living alone in Old Newton.
Old Newton sits above 89% of UK towns for households in detached houses (49%)
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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van in Old Newton comes in at 9.2%. Across the comparison, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. Census figures put households in terraced houses at 12% locally.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 61% of UK towns: 98%
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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.8%) or in Africa (1.3%). For comparison, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Lower than in 55% of UK towns: 5.9% of residents were born outside the UK.
Old Newton: 52% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 62% 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 Old Newton · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.3%), Caribbean (0.6%) and Indian (0.5%). Residents with no religion are more common here than in 56% of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46% across England’s towns.
Old Newton: 51% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 70% 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
Unpaid carers make up 7.9%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Married adults and civil partners: 44% across England’s towns, for comparison. On the census count, 30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 30% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 30% of adults in Old Newton, 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification, against 18%.
Older than Old Newton: 4 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Newton | 799 | — | 47.3 | 24% | 24% |
| Haughley | 1,316 | 1.3 mi | 48.8 | 29% | 21% |
| Stowupland | 2,019 | 1.8 mi | 47.6 | 28% | 24% |
| Stowmarket | 21,537 | 2.4 mi | 40.2 | 19% | 29% |
| Bacton and Cotton | 1,567 | 3 mi | 53.9 | 31% | 19% |
| Elmswell | 4,446 | 3.8 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 27% |
| Mendlesham | 1,018 | 3.8 mi | 47 | 29% | 23% |
| Woolpit | 1,838 | 4.6 mi | 52 | 31% | 21% |
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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 Old 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 Old Newton’s residents
What is the population of Old Newton?
The 2021 Census counted 799 people in Old Newton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Old Newton?
The median age was 47.3 at the 2021 Census. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Old Newton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 5.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Old Newton?
42% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Old Newton good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Old 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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