Photo: mym · CC BY-SA 2.0Above 99% of UK towns: 98% of residents describe themselves as White British
Nearly one in ten households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. Census day 2021: 264 residents and 111 households in Tunstall. Across Tunstall, 56% of households live in a detached house. On households with dependent children, Tunstall sits lower than 83% of UK towns: 23%.
8% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 93% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 40–44: nearly one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Fewer residents aged 65 and over than in 70% of UK towns: 19%. By way of comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 83 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
2.8% of adults are full-time students, below 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in just over two in five adults here, routine and semi-routine work 19% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. For Tunstall, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 5.4%.
One-person households make up 25% in Tunstall, less than in 85% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 3.6%. There are 2.4 people in the average household. For one-person households, the comparison across England’s towns is 30%.
11% of households live in a terraced house, below 88% 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. As a yardstick, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
In Tunstall, 1.9% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer 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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (1.1%), then in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). The share of residents born outside the UK across England’s towns is 18%. 100% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns.
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 65% of UK towns: 52%
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 Tunstall · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
On religion, 41% answered “no religion” and 52% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns.
Below 86% of UK towns: 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
Some 2 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Tunstall has more married adults and civil partners than just over two thirds of UK towns, at 51%. The usual figure: 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 8.6%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across England’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 33% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Tunstall, 33%, and 15% have none, against 18%.
Of the 7 towns nearest Tunstall, 4 are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tunstall | 264 | — | 44.7 | 19% | 23% |
| Rendlesham | 3,185 | 1.7 mi | 40.6 | 17% | 35% |
| Wickham Market | 2,231 | 3.6 mi | 52 | 33% | 21% |
| Sutton Common | 1,262 | 5 mi | 29 | 12% | 43% |
| Saxmundham | 4,778 | 5.3 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 27% |
| Melton | 1,608 | 5.6 mi | 50.3 | 26% | 21% |
| Aldeburgh | 2,423 | 6.3 mi | 61.9 | 44% | 12% |
| Woodbridge | 10,146 | 6.7 mi | 53.3 | 33% | 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 Tunstall’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 Tunstall’s residents
What is the population of Tunstall?
The 2021 Census counted 264 people in Tunstall’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Tunstall?
The median age was 44.7 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tunstall?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 1.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Tunstall?
41% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.1% didn’t answer.
Is Tunstall good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Tunstall’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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