Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns: 4.4%
30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns, against 23% in Alfold Crossways. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 851, in 363 households. For Alfold Crossways, the census puts households in terraced houses at 8.5%. With a median age of 48.7, Alfold Crossways is older than 78% of UK towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 69% of UK towns: 24%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 50–54: 9.8% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 are more common here than in 58% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
13% of residents moved in within a year, more than in 94% 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%.
In Alfold Crossways, 4.6% of adults are full-time students, beside 7.9% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
2.4 people per household, more than in 69% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Surrey’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
2.5% of households are unrelated adults living together, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Census figures put households with dependent children at 26% in Alfold Crossways.
42% of households live in a detached house, more than in 80% 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
By its share of households in flats (7.4%), Alfold Crossways is below 70% of UK towns. The usual figure: 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English: 97%, a lower share than 63% 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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.9%), then in the Middle East and Asia (2.3%). More residents born outside the UK than in 59% of UK towns: 7.4%. Across England’s towns, residents whose main language is English come to 90%.
Alfold Crossways sits below 69% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (89%)
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: 89% of Alfold Crossways · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 52% here and 46% across England’s towns. The share of residents with no religion stands at 38%. Typically, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Alfold Crossways sits below 91% of UK towns for adults who have never married (25%)
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
24 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Few places have as many married adults and civil partners: 55% here, more than in 87% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married is 39%. Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 8.1%, from the figure across England’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 35% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 35% of adults in Alfold Crossways, 34% across England’s towns; 20% have no qualification, against 18%.
Older than Alfold Crossways: 5 of the 7 towns nearby
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Surrey’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Surrey (or England), summed the same way as Alfold Crossways’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 Alfold Crossways’s residents
What is the population of Alfold Crossways?
The 2021 Census counted 851 people in Alfold Crossways’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Alfold Crossways?
The median age was 48.7 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Alfold Crossways?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Surrey’s towns. 7.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Alfold Crossways?
38% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 7.6% didn’t answer.
Is Alfold Crossways good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Alfold Crossways’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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