Photo: Martin Dawes · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 54.5: Stradbroke is older than 96% of UK towns
With households in flats at 1.1%, Stradbroke is behind 99% of UK towns on that count. At the 2021 Census, 1,190 people lived here, in 531 households. Here, 57% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Half of households live in a detached house, a higher share than in 90% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Stradbroke’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Stradbroke’s residents are under 54.5 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 35% 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).
Above 97% of UK towns: 35% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 (England’s towns: 12%). As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
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 Stradbroke, 4% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 83% 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%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 8%, against 11% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 20% of households in Stradbroke have dependent children
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.
At 2.3 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. By contrast, more shared households of unrelated adults than in just over three quarters of UK towns: 3%. Across England’s towns, 29% of households have dependent children. The share of one-person households stands at 28%.
Stradbroke sits below 90% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (9.4%)
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 without a car or van: 12%, below 72% of UK towns. Set beside that, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English: 100%, a higher share than 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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.6%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%). On residents born outside the UK, Stradbroke sits lower than two thirds of UK towns: 4.8%. Residents whose main language is English make up 90% across England’s towns.
58% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 89% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Stradbroke · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (2.9%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and African (0.2%). On average, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Few places have as many residents who describe themselves as White British: 95% here, more than in just over four fifths of UK towns. Against a figure of 37% across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Stradbroke comes in at 36%.
Only 24% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Stradbroke
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 figure for unpaid carers is 10% in Stradbroke and 8.7% across England’s towns. On average, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 32 people.
25% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 25% of adults in Stradbroke (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 24% (England’s towns: 18%).
No nearby town is as old as Stradbroke
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stradbroke | 1,190 | — | 54.5 | 35% | 20% |
| Laxfield | 1,004 | 4 mi | 52.3 | 28% | 19% |
| Eye | 2,211 | 5.4 mi | 52.4 | 33% | 21% |
| Harleston | 5,077 | 5.9 mi | 47.6 | 29% | 24% |
| Scole | 1,037 | 6 mi | 52.8 | 30% | 20% |
| Dickleburgh | 1,166 | 6.6 mi | 41.8 | 19% | 33% |
| Framlingham | 3,831 | 7.3 mi | 48.2 | 27% | 27% |
| Debenham | 2,294 | 7.6 mi | 49.7 | 29% | 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 Stradbroke’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 Stradbroke’s residents
What is the population of Stradbroke?
The 2021 Census counted 1,190 people in Stradbroke’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stradbroke?
The median age was 54.5 at the 2021 Census. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stradbroke?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 4.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stradbroke?
36% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Stradbroke good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stradbroke’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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