Photo: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.04.6% of households have no car or van, below 99% of UK towns
The share of households in detached houses tops 89% of UK towns: 50%. Here, 98% of residents describe themselves as White British. The median age in Stonham Aspal is 50.6, higher than in 88% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Stonham Aspal was home to 249 people in 109 households.
Stonham Aspal ranks below 87% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 8.4%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
65–69 is the most common age band: one in ten residents, 2.1 times the share across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Stonham Aspal sits below 92% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (6.5%)
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%.
By class, just over two in five adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 15% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Fewer full-time students than in nearly three quarters of UK towns: 4.3%. For comparison, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
A lower share of one-person households than 87% of UK towns, at 25%
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.
With households with dependent children at 24%, Stonham Aspal is behind 80% of UK towns on that count. To put it in context, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Each household has 2.3 people on average. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Households in terraced houses make up 4.7% in Stonham Aspal, less than in 98% 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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 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
Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%; Stonham Aspal has 4%. The comparison figure for residents whose main language is English is 90% across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in Africa (2%), then in EU countries (1.6%).
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 60% in Stonham Aspal, more than in 94% 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: 98% of Stonham Aspal · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
36% of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns is 46%.
Stonham Aspal: 55% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 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
Nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns, against 29% in Stonham Aspal. The comparison figure for married adults and civil partners is 44% across England’s towns. Across Stonham Aspal, 8.7% of residents give unpaid care.
Among adults, 37% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 37% of adults in Stonham Aspal, 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification, against 18%.
Every nearby town is younger than Stonham Aspal
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stonham Aspal | 249 | — | 50.6 | 26% | 24% |
| Debenham | 2,294 | 3.2 mi | 49.7 | 29% | 27% |
| Needham Market | 5,055 | 4 mi | 50 | 28% | 19% |
| Mendlesham | 1,018 | 4.4 mi | 47 | 29% | 23% |
| Stowupland | 2,019 | 4.5 mi | 47.6 | 28% | 24% |
| Stowmarket | 21,537 | 5.4 mi | 40.2 | 19% | 29% |
| Great Blakenham | 2,188 | 5.6 mi | 31.9 | 8.7% | 35% |
| Claydon | 3,140 | 5.7 mi | 48.8 | 27% | 26% |
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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 Stonham Aspal’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 Stonham Aspal’s residents
What is the population of Stonham Aspal?
The 2021 Census counted 249 people in Stonham Aspal’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stonham Aspal?
The median age was 50.6 at the 2021 Census. 8.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stonham Aspal?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stonham Aspal?
36% said they had no religion and 60% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.6% didn’t answer.
Is Stonham Aspal good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stonham Aspal’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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