Photo: David Hillas · CC BY-SA 2.0A village of detached houses: 89% of households live in one
1.6% of households live in a terraced house (England’s towns: 24%). At the same time, with a median age of 50.6, Dormans Park is older than 88% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 330 residents and 121 households here. Residents with no religion account for 29%.
23% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 61% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 10% of residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. In Dormans Park, one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 4.3% in Dormans Park, less than in 99% 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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Dormans Park has 55% and 5.5%. Residents who moved in within the year: 11% across England’s towns, for comparison. Here, 4.7% of adults are full-time students.
Dormans Park ranks below 99% of UK towns on one-person households: 15%
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.
Across England’s towns, 29% of households have dependent children; in Dormans Park, 30%. There are 2.7 people in the average household. Shared households of unrelated adults are more common here than in 97% of UK towns.
Only 0.8% of households have no car or van in Dormans Park
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
The share of households in flats is 2.5%, against 23% across England’s towns. The benchmark for households without a car or van across England’s towns: 24%.
Above 90% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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
Born outside the UK: 9.1% of residents, against 18% across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (3.9%) and in Africa (3%).
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 99% of UK towns: 66%
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: 91% of Dormans Park · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Other White (4.9%), Mixed or multiple (1.8%) and African (0.9%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are scarce here: 91%, fewer than in 56% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
67% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 99% 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
Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 8.4%, close to the figure across England’s towns. The share of married adults and civil partners across England’s towns is 44%. For Dormans Park, the census puts adults who have never married at 22%.
Degree-level qualifications: 51% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Dormans Park counts 51% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 6.6% have no qualification (18%).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Dormans Park 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dormans Park | 330 | — | 50.6 | 23% | 30% |
| Dormansland | 2,300 | 1.1 mi | 47.4 | 22% | 27% |
| East Grinstead | 26,350 | 1.4 mi | 44.4 | 21% | 28% |
| Felbridge | 2,031 | 1.9 mi | 51.3 | 29% | 27% |
| Lingfield | 3,622 | 1.9 mi | 43.7 | 22% | 31% |
| Ashurst Wood | 1,508 | 2.9 mi | 45.8 | 24% | 27% |
| Crawley Down | 5,775 | 3.5 mi | 47.8 | 26% | 28% |
| Blindley Heath | 1,289 | 3.8 mi | 42.1 | 18% | 31% |
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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 Dormans Park’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 Dormans Park’s residents
What is the population of Dormans Park?
The 2021 Census counted 330 people in Dormans Park’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dormans Park?
The median age was 50.6 at the 2021 Census. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dormans Park?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Surrey’s towns. 9.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dormans Park?
29% said they had no religion and 66% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 4% didn’t answer.
Is Dormans Park good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Dormans Park’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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