Photo: Bread Boy49 · CC BY-SA 3.0Half of Wrentham is over 51.5, older than 91% of UK towns
2% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Census day 2021: 874 residents and 405 households in Wrentham. Here, 96% of residents describe themselves as White British. On households in terraced houses, Wrentham sits higher than nearly four fifths of UK towns: 28%.
Wrentham ranks below 94% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 7.9%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Set against 18% across England’s towns, 29% of residents are 65 or over in Wrentham. 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
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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 3.8% in Wrentham, less than in 90% 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%.
27% of Wrentham’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 28% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Across Wrentham, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. By way of comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households with dependent children: 21%, a lower share than 91% 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: 2% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. Meanwhile, 32% of households are one person living alone, more than in 71% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. Households here average 2.1 people each.
Only 11% of households in Wrentham have no car or van
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 detached houses make up 35%, against 21% across England’s towns. One household in every 9 has no car or van.
In Wrentham, 3.4% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 86% 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
The largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%) and in EU countries (0.8%). Measured more widely, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. More residents whose main language is English than in 89% of UK towns: 99%.
Wrentham ranks above 74% of UK towns on residents with no religion: 45%
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 Wrentham · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (1.3%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Chinese (0.6%). On average, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are scarce here: 48%, fewer than in nearly three fifths of UK towns.
More unpaid carers than 84% of UK towns: 11%
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
Adults who have never married: 29% here and 39% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Locally, half of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 22% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 22% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 22% hold no qualification (18%).
Median age: 4 of the 7 towns around Wrentham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrentham | 874 | — | 51.5 | 29% | 21% |
| Reydon | 2,369 | 3.1 mi | 59.2 | 40% | 17% |
| Kessingland | 4,242 | 3.2 mi | 55 | 34% | 18% |
| Worlingham | 3,618 | 5.5 mi | 50.1 | 29% | 24% |
| Beccles | 9,807 | 6.2 mi | 48.6 | 28% | 22% |
| Lowestoft | 71,308 | 6.3 mi | 46 | 25% | 25% |
| Halesworth | 4,924 | 7.5 mi | 54 | 35% | 18% |
| Corton | 1,134 | 9.6 mi | 59.2 | 39% | 14% |
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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 Wrentham’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 Wrentham’s residents
What is the population of Wrentham?
The 2021 Census counted 874 people in Wrentham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wrentham?
The median age was 51.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wrentham?
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 Wrentham?
45% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Wrentham good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wrentham’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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