Photo: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in terraced houses: 7.1%, a lower share than 95% of UK towns
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.9%, below 77% of UK towns. Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.5% of the total. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are common here: 45%, more than in just over three quarters of UK towns. 2,019 residents in 934 households: that is Stowupland at the 2021 Census.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 84% of UK towns, at 28%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With a median age of 47.6, Stowupland is older than 72% of UK towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. 55–59 is the most common age band: 7.6% of residents. In Halesworth, the oldest of Suffolk’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
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.
In Stowupland, 3.4% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 96% 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%.
Set against 11% across England’s towns, 9.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Stowupland. As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households with dependent children make up 24% in Stowupland, less than in 77% 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.
Across England’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Stowupland, 2.2. On the census count, 29% of households are one person living alone.
28% of households live in a detached house, below 54% 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
Locally, 10% of households live in a flat or apartment. Few places have as many households without a car or van: 15% here, more than in 50% of UK towns.
Residents born outside the UK: 4%, a lower share than 78% 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
Here 99% of residents have English as their main language, where the figure across England’s towns is 90%. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.4%) and in Africa (0.7%). The usual figure: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
More residents who describe themselves as White British than 84% of UK towns: 96%
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 Stowupland · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (2.2%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and African (0.5%). Lower than in nearly two thirds of UK towns: 47% of residents describe themselves as Christian. The wider picture: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Stowupland: 51% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 69% 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 10%, against 8.7% across England’s towns. Across Stowupland, 30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 22% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Stowupland, 22% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 24% have no qualification at all (18%).
4 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Stowupland
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stowupland | 2,019 | — | 47.6 | 28% | 24% |
| Stowmarket | 21,537 | 1.2 mi | 40.2 | 19% | 29% |
| Haughley | 1,316 | 2.5 mi | 48.8 | 29% | 21% |
| Needham Market | 5,055 | 3.3 mi | 50 | 28% | 19% |
| Mendlesham | 1,018 | 4.3 mi | 47 | 29% | 23% |
| Bacton and Cotton | 1,567 | 4.6 mi | 53.9 | 31% | 19% |
| Elmswell | 4,446 | 5.2 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 27% |
| Woolpit | 1,838 | 5.7 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 Stowupland’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 Stowupland’s residents
What is the population of Stowupland?
The 2021 Census counted 2,019 people in Stowupland’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stowupland?
The median age was 47.6 at the 2021 Census. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stowupland?
96% 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 Stowupland?
45% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Stowupland good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stowupland’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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