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St Michael's ward, Castle Point

St Michael's is one of 13 electoral wards of Castle Point Borough Council, in Essex (East of England). At the 2021 Census it had 4,348 residents in 1,865 households — 970 people per km², the 13th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Castle Point constituency; for county elections it is in the Hadleigh division.

Residents, 20214,348council ward average 6,891
Households1,8652.33 residents per household
Density970/ km²about 4.48 km² · Castle Point 2,006
Aged 65+29.4%Castle Point: 25.2% · under 16: 14.8%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–44.6% · 198
5–94.7% · 204
10–155.5% · 241
16–193.5% · 151
20–244.0% · 176
25–349.7% · 420
35–4916.4% · 714
50–6422.2% · 964
65–7415.6% · 679
75–8410.3% · 450
85+3.5% · 151

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van8.8% · 165
1 car or van36.8% · 686
2 cars or vans37.8% · 705
3 or more16.6% · 309
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Castle Point overall: 80.0% owned, 5.5% social rented, 14.0% private rented.

Owned outright53.1% · 990
With mortgage36.2% · 674
Shared ownership0.3% · 6
Social rented2.1% · 39
Private rented8.1% · 151
Lives rent free0.2% · 3

Type of home

Detached house38.4% · 715
Semi-detached house50.3% · 938
Terraced house6.9% · 128
Purpose-built flat3.5% · 65
Converted house0.4% · 7
Above shop / office0.2% · 3
Caravan, mobile0.4% · 8
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0This ward was drawn after the 2021 Census: figures are built up from the 3 census areas (LSOAs) that ONS best-fits to it, so they are close estimates.