Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Reydon is older than 99% of UK towns: a median age of 59.2
The typical household size is 2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Few places have so few households with dependent children: 17% here, fewer than in 98% of UK towns. In 2021, the Census found 2,369 residents in Reydon, living in 1,170 households. For Reydon, the census puts households in detached houses at 53%.
What the Census says about Reydon’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Reydon’s residents are under 59.2 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 40% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
More residents aged 65 and over than 99% of UK towns: 40%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Young people aged 15 to 24 make up 7.2% of residents, against 12% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 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: 2.7%, 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%.
With residents who moved in within the year at 9.4%, Reydon is ahead of 64% of UK towns on that count. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Reydon sits below 98% of UK towns for shared households of unrelated adults (1.2%)
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.
Against a figure of 30% across England’s towns, the share of one-person households in Reydon comes in at 36%. The comparison figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 4.3% across England’s towns.
5% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 83% 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
17% of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, households without a car or van are common here: 16%, more than in 55% of UK towns. Set beside that, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
More residents whose main language is English than 98% of UK towns: 99%
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
3.8% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns. Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.7%).
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 58% in Reydon, more than in 90% 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: 96% of Reydon · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
By its share of residents with no religion (35%), Reydon is below 81% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Across Reydon, 96% of residents describe themselves as White British.
Only 23% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Reydon
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 67 residents. The comparison figure for adults who have never married is 39% across England’s towns. Few places have as many unpaid carers: 10% here, more than in 72% of UK towns. Married people and civil partners make up nearly half of adults, against 44% across England’s towns.
29% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 29% of adults in Reydon (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 20% (England’s towns: 18%).
Reydon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reydon | 2,369 | — | 59.2 | 40% | 17% |
| Kessingland | 4,242 | 5.9 mi | 55 | 34% | 18% |
| Halesworth | 4,924 | 6.8 mi | 54 | 35% | 18% |
| Worlingham | 3,618 | 8.2 mi | 50.1 | 29% | 24% |
| Beccles | 9,807 | 8.7 mi | 48.6 | 28% | 22% |
| Lowestoft | 71,308 | 9.4 mi | 46 | 25% | 25% |
| Leiston | 5,919 | 10.1 mi | 47.2 | 25% | 22% |
| Saxmundham | 4,778 | 11.4 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 27% |
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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 Reydon’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 Reydon’s residents
What is the population of Reydon?
The 2021 Census counted 2,369 people in Reydon’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Reydon?
The median age was 59.2 at the 2021 Census. 7.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 40% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Reydon?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Reydon?
35% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Reydon good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Reydon’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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