Photo: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Witnesham is over 56, older than 97% of UK towns
4.8% of households have no car or van (England’s towns: 24%). More households in detached houses than in 99% of UK towns: 73%. Witnesham is home to 359 residents in 149 households, by the 2021 Census. Here, 59% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 99% of UK towns, at 6.9%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 18% across England’s towns, 32% of residents are 65 or over here. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Witnesham ranks above 98% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 17%
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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Witnesham, 46% and 13%. On average, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Here, 4.1% of adults are full-time students.
Fewer people live alone than in 96% of UK towns: 21% of households
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.
In Witnesham the average household is 2.3 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 30% of households are one person living alone. Households with dependent children: nearly a quarter of the total. More shared households of unrelated adults than in 84% of UK towns: 3.4%.
Households in terraced houses: 5.5%, a lower share than 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
Across England’s towns, the share of households in flats is 23%; Witnesham has 2.7%. Against that, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Fewer residents born outside the UK than 79% of UK towns: 3.9%
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 whose main language is English make up 99%, against 90% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (1.9%) and in EU countries (1.4%).
Witnesham ranks above 87% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 57%
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 Witnesham · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 37% across England’s towns, just over a third of residents said they have no religion here. In Witnesham, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%.
22% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 98% 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
Where 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, Witnesham has 11%. To put it in context, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. 6 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
37% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 37% of adults in Witnesham, 34% across England’s towns; 14% have no qualification, against 18%.
Witnesham is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Witnesham | 359 | — | 56 | 32% | 23% |
| Grundisburgh | 1,424 | 2.6 mi | 49 | 27% | 28% |
| Claydon | 3,140 | 3.1 mi | 48.8 | 27% | 26% |
| Ipswich | 151,566 | 3.8 mi | 39 | 17% | 29% |
| Great Blakenham | 2,188 | 3.9 mi | 31.9 | 8.7% | 35% |
| Kesgrave | 14,947 | 4 mi | 44.1 | 20% | 33% |
| Bramford | 2,335 | 4.4 mi | 51.9 | 33% | 19% |
| Martlesham | 1,976 | 4.5 mi | 47.8 | 28% | 28% |
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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 Witnesham’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 Witnesham’s residents
What is the population of Witnesham?
The 2021 Census counted 359 people in Witnesham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Witnesham?
The median age was 56 at the 2021 Census. 6.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Witnesham?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 3.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Witnesham?
35% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.7% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Witnesham good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Witnesham’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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