Photo: Anthony Parkes · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 98% of UK towns: 1.6% of households live in a flat or apartment
In Aston, 6.6% of households live in a terraced house, beside 29% across Wales’s towns. Across Aston, 27% of residents are 65 or over. One-person households are rarer here than in three quarters of UK towns. This Clwyd town had 2,847 residents in 1,216 households at the 2021 Census.
Older than 77% of UK towns: half of Aston is over 48.6
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Against a figure of 12% across Wales’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Aston comes in at 9%. 50–54 is the most common age band: 7.9% of residents.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Aston, 48.6. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
5.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 98% 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%.
Set against 8% across Wales’s towns, 5.2% of adults are full-time students in Aston. Measured more widely, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Wales’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2.3 people per household, more than in 61% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Clwyd’s towns and Wales’s towns
People per household
Wales’s towns.
The share of households with dependent children stands at 27%. Aston has fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 51% of UK towns, at 2.3%.
Above 91% of UK towns: 52% of households live in a detached house
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 without a car or van trails just over four fifths of UK towns: 9.9%. 1.6% of households live in a flat, less than in 98% of UK towns; 52% in a detached house, against 24% across Wales’s towns.
Only 5.6% of residents were born outside the UK in Aston
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 10%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (3.5%), then in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). At 97%, the share of residents whose main language is English is lower than in just over three fifths of UK towns. On average, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. Where 23% of those born abroad across Wales’s towns arrived in 2017 or later, here the share is 19%.
Welsh, spoken by 9.2% of Aston’s residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Against 16% across Welsh towns, 9.2% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Welsh here (257 people): fewer than in 76% of Welsh towns. No town in Clwyd beats Llanfairfechan (44%).
A lower share of residents with no religion than 78% of UK towns, at 36%
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: 94% of Aston · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 94%, against 90% across Wales’s towns. Typically, 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns. Here, 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
Fewer adults who have never married than 86% of UK towns: 27%
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
Set against 43% across Wales’s towns, 52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership in Aston. Just over one in ten residents give unpaid care, a higher share than in 85% of UK towns. On average, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 114 residents.
Degree-level qualifications: 29% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 29% of its adults qualified to degree level, Aston compares with 31% across Wales’s towns; another 17% hold no qualification (20%).
184th highest median age among 514 UK towns of 2,500 to 4,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
The youngest is Keele (20.6) and the oldest West Chiltington (63.1). Nearest to Aston in age: Goff's Oak (48.6), Ashburton (48.6), Bramhope (48.7) and Tollesbury (48.7).
Every nearby town is younger than Aston
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aston | 2,847 | — | 48.6 | 27% | 27% |
| Hawarden | 14,284 | 0.7 mi | 46.8 | 23% | 26% |
| Shotton | 6,500 | 0.9 mi | 40.9 | 18% | 27% |
| Connah's Quay | 16,768 | 1.6 mi | 40.4 | 18% | 31% |
| Garden City | 2,427 | 1.9 mi | 34.9 | 11% | 33% |
| Northop Hall | 1,826 | 2.1 mi | 45.1 | 23% | 29% |
| Buckley | 13,562 | 2.4 mi | 43.3 | 20% | 28% |
| Broughton | 6,532 | 3.1 mi | 40.6 | 18% | 30% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “Clwyd’s towns” and “Wales’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Clwyd (or Wales), summed the same way as Aston’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 Aston’s residents
What is the population of Aston?
The 2021 Census counted 2,847 people in Aston’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Aston?
The median age was 48.6 at the 2021 Census, older than 77% of UK towns. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Aston?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 92% across Clwyd’s towns. 5.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Aston?
36% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 8% didn’t answer.
Is Aston good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Aston’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Aston?
257 residents aged 3 and over, 9.2%, said they can speak Welsh at the 2021 Census, against 16% across Welsh towns.
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, TS032). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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