Photo: Breadboy · CC BY-SA 3.0A median age of 55.3: Wangford is older than 97% of UK towns
Households with dependent children make up 18%, against 29% across England’s towns. Unpaid carers account for 13%. 0.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. Wangford is home to 443 residents in 221 households, by the 2021 Census.
A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 98% of UK towns: 7.2%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 60–64, with one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. At 33%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is higher than in 95% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
Wangford ranks below 92% of UK towns on full-time students: 3.7%
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 account for 30% of Wangford’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 32%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Locally, one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Wangford sits above 98% of UK towns for one-person households (39%)
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.
A household here has 2 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. For one-person households, the comparison across England’s towns is 30%.
Only 1.8% of households live in a flat or apartment in Wangford
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
Here 31% of households live in a terraced house, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. Households in detached houses account for 25%. 15% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 53% of UK towns. For households in flats, the comparison across England’s towns is 23%.
Above 95% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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 (1.1%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%). Lower than in 86% of UK towns: 3.4% of residents were born outside the UK. Across the comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
A higher White British share than 89% of UK towns: 96% of residents
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 Wangford · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
48% of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 46% across England’s towns. At the same time, at 43%, the share of residents with no religion is higher than in just over three fifths of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (2.5%), Mixed or multiple (0.5%) and Indian (0.2%).
Adults who have never married: 31%, a lower share than 60% 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
15 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Lower than in just over half of UK towns: 48% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Adults who have never married make up 39% across England’s towns.
Among adults, 26% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Wangford’s adults: 26% with a degree-level qualification and 25% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Wangford and its 7 nearest towns: 1 of them 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wangford | 443 | — | 55.3 | 33% | 18% |
| Reydon | 2,369 | 2.1 mi | 59.2 | 40% | 17% |
| Halesworth | 4,924 | 5 mi | 54 | 35% | 18% |
| Kessingland | 4,242 | 6.1 mi | 55 | 34% | 18% |
| Worlingham | 3,618 | 6.7 mi | 50.1 | 29% | 24% |
| Beccles | 9,807 | 7.1 mi | 48.6 | 28% | 22% |
| Lowestoft | 71,308 | 9.1 mi | 46 | 25% | 25% |
| Bungay | 5,012 | 10.2 mi | 49.2 | 29% | 23% |
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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 Wangford’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 Wangford’s residents
What is the population of Wangford?
The 2021 Census counted 443 people in Wangford’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wangford?
The median age was 55.3 at the 2021 Census. 7.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wangford?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 3.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wangford?
43% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.8% didn’t answer.
Is Wangford good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wangford’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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