Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Wickham Skeith is over 53.8, older than 95% of UK towns
3.9% of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. There were 130 households in Wickham Skeith at the 2021 Census, home to 306 residents. The share of households without a car or van stands at 3.1%. On adults who have never married, Wickham Skeith sits lower than 99% of UK towns: 20%.
Wickham Skeith ranks below 99% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 6.9%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 65–69: 12% of residents, 2.5 times the share across England’s towns. 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.
Full-time students make up 3.5% in Wickham Skeith, less than in 95% 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%.
Where just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns, Wickham Skeith has 7.2%. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
18% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 97% 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.
The share of shared households of unrelated adults tops 78% of UK towns: 3.1%. Locally, 22% of households are one person living alone. Across England’s towns, households with dependent children come to 29%.
Households in detached houses make up 62% in Wickham Skeith, more than in 97% 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. The share of households in detached houses across England’s towns is 21%.
Wickham Skeith sits above 99% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (100%)
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
Where 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, Wickham Skeith has 4.6%. As a yardstick, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in Africa (1.6%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.6%).
Wickham Skeith sits above 99% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (99%)
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: 99% of Wickham Skeith · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 37% across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Wickham Skeith comes in at 43%. Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: half of the total.
Wickham Skeith ranks above 99% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 65%
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
6 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Set beside that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. On unpaid carers, Wickham Skeith sits higher than three fifths of UK towns: 9.7%.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Wickham Skeith counts 38% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 15% have no qualification (18%).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Wickham Skeith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wickham Skeith | 306 | — | 53.8 | 31% | 18% |
| Gislingham | 1,172 | 2.1 mi | 50.3 | 24% | 25% |
| Mendlesham | 1,018 | 2.2 mi | 47 | 29% | 23% |
| Bacton and Cotton | 1,567 | 2.6 mi | 53.9 | 31% | 19% |
| Eye | 2,211 | 4.4 mi | 52.4 | 33% | 21% |
| Rickinghall and Botesdale | 1,842 | 5 mi | 52.6 | 31% | 21% |
| Walsham le Willows | 1,258 | 5.6 mi | 49 | 25% | 25% |
| Debenham | 2,294 | 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 Wickham Skeith’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 Wickham Skeith’s residents
What is the population of Wickham Skeith?
The 2021 Census counted 306 people in Wickham Skeith’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wickham Skeith?
The median age was 53.8 at the 2021 Census. 6.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wickham Skeith?
99% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wickham Skeith?
43% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Wickham Skeith good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wickham Skeith’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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