Photo: Christopher Hilton · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 95% of UK towns: half of Yoxford is over 53.9
Compared with 29% across England’s towns, 18% of households have dependent children here. There were 367 households in Yoxford at the 2021 Census, home to 782 residents. Unpaid carers: 13% of the total. More households in detached houses than in 84% of UK towns: 44%.
31% of residents are 65 or over, a share 92% of UK towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
55–59 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 9.8%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A smaller share of full-time students than 90% of UK towns: 3.8%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 8.3%, against 11% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Smaller households than 93% of UK towns: 2.1 people on average
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 figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 2.7% in Yoxford and 4.3% across England’s towns. Higher than in 71% of UK towns: 32% of households are one person living alone.
In Yoxford, 3.8% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 89% 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
24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, against 14% in Yoxford. Households in flats: 23% across England’s towns, for comparison. In one household in 8 there is no car or van.
Yoxford sits above 96% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (99%)
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
Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK in Yoxford comes in at 4.5%. For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across England’s towns is 90%. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%).
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 63% of UK towns, at 94%
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: 94% of Yoxford · Suffolk’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 43%, against 37% across England’s towns. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns: 73%. The census found that 51% of residents describe themselves as Christian in Yoxford.
In Yoxford, 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 79% 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
In Yoxford, just over half of adults are married or in a civil partnership, beside 44% across England’s towns. Adults who have never married make up 39% across England’s towns. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 31.
Degree-level qualifications reach 34% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 34% of its adults qualified to degree level, Yoxford compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 16% hold no qualification (18%).
Yoxford sits below 3 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoxford | 782 | — | 53.9 | 31% | 18% |
| Saxmundham | 4,778 | 3.6 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 27% |
| Halesworth | 4,924 | 5.1 mi | 54 | 35% | 18% |
| Leiston | 5,919 | 5.2 mi | 47.2 | 25% | 22% |
| Laxfield | 1,004 | 6.5 mi | 52.3 | 28% | 19% |
| Framlingham | 3,831 | 7.8 mi | 48.2 | 27% | 27% |
| Reydon | 2,369 | 8.3 mi | 59.2 | 40% | 17% |
| Aldeburgh | 2,423 | 8.4 mi | 61.9 | 44% | 12% |
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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 Yoxford’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 Yoxford’s residents
What is the population of Yoxford?
The 2021 Census counted 782 people in Yoxford’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Yoxford?
The median age was 53.9 at the 2021 Census. 9.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Yoxford?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Suffolk’s towns. 4.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Yoxford?
43% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.6% didn’t answer.
Is Yoxford good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Yoxford’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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