Woldingham - Demographics

Demographics

In 2001, Woldingham contained 2,326 residents in 732 households of which only 14.1% were aged over 65; 15.6% of the population were in full-time further education; 78.0% of all men were economically active whereas 2.7% were unemployed, 4.6% worked part-time; 44.7% of all women were economically active whereas 2.3% were unemployed, 33.3% worked part-time.

As to ethnicity, 94.2% of the population identified themselves as being white, 0.7% as black, 1.1% as mixed and 1.2% as of Indian descent, 0.3% as of Pakistani descent, 2.5% as other of the four main categories (five including mixed).

In terms of religion, 78.8% of the population responded as being Christian, 0.3% as Muslim, 2.1% other religions, 13.5% as atheist and 5.3% declined to answer.

Woldingham's economy is predominantly a service sector economy reflected by the lower end of the official categorisation table of occupation given, compiled from the 2001 census:

Whereas in this census, 32.3% of the population worked in middle or higher professional occupations and 7.6% of the population worked as large employers or in higher management.