Great Tey is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England.

The parish of Great Tey is a small rural community that contains a few local amenities such as village pub, a Norman church and a post office.

[4] The parish contains a 16th-century pub named the Chequers [5] and a village hall which features a lot in the communities activities, some of these being "social events with beavers, cubs, scouts, karate, brownies, rainbows, table tennis and the women institute".

This is evident from the fact throughout the UK more and more are employed in managerial jobs working in offices compared to the outdoor agricultural lifestyle that was the norm in earlier years.

[8] In addition to this statistics the vision of Britain site revealed that in the early years of 1831, of the population the majority of occupations related to status were labourers and servants with a total of 133.

[16] Of the 374 households, 174 of these are owned outright, with only fractional amounts compared to a mere 20 in Private Rented or letting accommodation.

[18] In religious terms Great Tey was originally a predominately one religion parish, figures from the neighbourhood statistics database clarifies this showing of the 942 occupants in 2001, 792 confirmed they were of the Christian belief.

In contrast there was only 6 Jewish members and only 3 of the Muslim faith showing that the dominant religion of the area is in fact Christian.

[21] This clarifies that Great Tey is predominantly an English parish with only a fractional amount of ethnic minorities and such a lack of various faiths.

However, there are 5 locals born in the EU other than Ireland, Wales and Scotland and another further 20 inhabitants that country of birth was other than the above stated.

We can look at the make-up of Great Tey's population by separating males from females and assessing the dominant gender for the parish area.

It is made clear through the statistics recovered from the vision of Britain website that the build of gender has altered throughout the years.

Nonetheless, the pattern of gender throughout Great Tey is quite similar with there being no real distinct favourite over time.

Looking at more recent time periods we can see that gender has remained close with the 2001 census revealing a total of 347 males[27] compared to 338 females.

of the 911 locals listed in the 2011 census 766 of them are noted as being 'not limited' in contrast to the mere 30 who require 50 hours or more a week.