Photo: Uksignpix · CC BY-SA 3.0Half of Ousden is over 51.9, older than 92% of UK towns
6.9% of households live in a terraced house (England’s towns: 24%). Census day 2021: 248 residents and 101 households in Ousden. On the census count, 3.9% of households have no car or van. At 26%, the share of adults who have never married is lower than in 90% of UK towns.
31% of Ousden is 65 or over, a higher share than 93% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Locally, 9.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24. In Halesworth, the oldest of Suffolk’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
A higher share of residents who moved in within the year than 76% of UK towns, at 10%
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 Ousden, 35% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 19% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Census figures put full-time students at 4.8% here. The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across England’s towns: 11%.
A smaller share of one-person households than 99% of UK towns: 17%
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.
Families with dependent children are 30% of households (England’s towns 29%), and 13% are someone 66 or over living alone (Suffolk’s towns 15%). The average household has 2.4 people. Few places have as many shared households of unrelated adults: 5% here, more than in 96% of UK towns.
Households in flats: 1%, a lower share than 99% 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
Two thirds of households live in a detached house; across England’s towns the figure is 21%. As a yardstick, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Ousden: 100% of residents have English as their main language, above 99% 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 figure for residents born outside the UK is 7.7% in Ousden and 18% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (3.2%) and in EU countries (2.4%).
In Ousden, 56% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 86% 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: 93% of Ousden · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.4%), Mixed or multiple (2.4%) and Indian (0.4%). As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 66% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Ousden has 93%.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 94% of UK towns, at 57%
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 unpaid carers trails 97% of UK towns: 6.9%. Elsewhere, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 7 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Ousden’s adults: 38% with a degree-level qualification and 14% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Every neighbour of Ousden has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ousden | 248 | — | 51.9 | 31% | 30% |
| Barrow | 1,961 | 2.9 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 27% |
| Cock and End | 1,346 | 5 mi | 34.9 | 3% | 21% |
| Kentford | 1,124 | 5.1 mi | 39.9 | 19% | 34% |
| Newmarket | 18,857 | 6.9 mi | 40.2 | 18% | 23% |
| Red Lodge | 5,771 | 7.2 mi | 30.9 | 6.1% | 38% |
| Bury St Edmunds | 41,279 | 7.4 mi | 43.2 | 22% | 23% |
| Kedington | 1,778 | 8.2 mi | 47.1 | 27% | 30% |
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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 Ousden’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 Ousden’s residents
What is the population of Ousden?
The 2021 Census counted 248 people in Ousden’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ousden?
The median age was 51.9 at the 2021 Census. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ousden?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 7.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ousden?
38% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.4% didn’t answer.
Is Ousden good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ousden’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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