Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in flats: 2.2%, a lower share than 96% of UK towns
11% of households live in a terraced house, against 29% across Wales’s towns. On the census count, 85% of residents describe themselves as White British. With a median age of 42.2, Bodelwyddan is younger than just over two thirds of UK towns. Census day 2021: 1,785 residents and 728 households in the village.
10% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a share 70% of UK towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns, against 20% in Bodelwyddan. No age band is larger than 50–54: nearly one in ten residents. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
5.6% of adults are full-time students, more than in 77% 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 Wales’s towns, 29% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine work; in Bodelwyddan, 35% and 26%. The share of full-time students across Wales’s towns is 8%. For Bodelwyddan, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 9%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
A higher share of households with dependent children than 75% of UK towns, at 30%
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.
Bodelwyddan sits close to the norm on shared households of unrelated adults: 2.9%, about the same as across Wales’s towns. Typically, 27% of households have dependent children across Wales’s towns. Each household has 2.3 people on average.
Bodelwyddan: 46% of households live in a detached house, above 86% of UK towns
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
Across Wales’s towns, just over a fifth of households have no car or van; in Bodelwyddan, 14%. By way of comparison, nearly a quarter of households live in a detached house across Wales’s towns.
Bodelwyddan sits above 78% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (11%)
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 15%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
94% of residents have English as their main language, against 96% across Wales’s towns. The usual figure: 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the Middle East and Asia (6.7%) and in Africa (2%).
In Bodelwyddan, 15% of residents can speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Against 16% across Welsh towns, 15% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Welsh here (256 people): more than in 66% of Welsh towns. Llanfairfechan leads Clwyd with 44%.
Below 77% of UK towns: 45% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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: 85% of Bodelwyddan · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 39%, against 47% across Wales’s towns. Against that, 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns. Islam is the religion of 3.3% of residents.
Adults who have never married: 35%, a higher share than 63% 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
47% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, against 43% across Wales’s towns. Higher than in 89% of UK towns: 11% of residents give unpaid care. On average, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 33% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 31% across Wales’s towns, 33% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 18% hold no qualification (20%).
Older than Bodelwyddan: 6 of the 7 towns nearby
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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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 Bodelwyddan’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 Bodelwyddan’s residents
What is the population of Bodelwyddan?
The 2021 Census counted 1,785 people in Bodelwyddan’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bodelwyddan?
The median age was 42.2 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bodelwyddan?
85% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 92% across Clwyd’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bodelwyddan?
39% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 3.3% were Muslim and 7.3% didn’t answer.
Is Bodelwyddan good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Bodelwyddan’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Bodelwyddan?
256 residents aged 3 and over, 15%, 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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