Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Few flats: only 0.7% of households in Bradley live in one
Set against 29% across Wales’s towns, nearly one in ten households live in a terraced house in Bradley. At the 2021 Census Bradley was home to 1,316 people in 545 households. Here, 96% of residents describe themselves as White British. On one-person households, Bradley sits lower than 80% of UK towns: 26%.
Bradley sits above 62% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (23%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 70–74, with 7.5% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Wales’s towns. 9.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24. The median age in Bradley is 45.1, higher than in 54% of UK towns. Set beside that, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Only 4.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Bradley
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%.
In Bradley, 6.2% of adults are full-time students, beside 8% across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 9.1%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Bradley households average 2.4 people, larger than in 81% 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.
29% of households have dependent children (Wales’s towns: 27%). More shared households of unrelated adults than in just over three fifths of UK towns: 2.6%.
A smaller share of households without a car or van than 65% of UK towns: 13%
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
Nothing unusual on households in detached houses: 24%, close to the figure across Wales’s towns. One household in every 8 has no car or van.
Fewer residents born abroad than 82% of UK towns: 3.7%
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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
With residents whose main language is English at 99%, Bradley is ahead of 74% of UK towns on that count. To put it in context, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.8%).
In Bradley, Welsh is a language for 15% of residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Some 188 people here aged 3 and over said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, 15% of the total, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 66% of them. No town in Clwyd beats Llanfairfechan (44%).
Bradley ranks above 60% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 51%
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: 96% of Bradley · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Where 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns, Bradley has 40%. The largest groups after White British are Other White (1.5%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and Indian (0.5%). The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns is 43%.
Bradley sits below 67% of UK towns for adults who have never married (30%)
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
43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns, against 50% in Bradley. Unpaid carers are more common here than in 87% of UK towns. The share of adults who have never married across Wales’s towns is 38%.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 26%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
26% of Bradley’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 31% across Wales’s towns; 20% have none (20%). A levels are the highest qualification of 16%, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Older than Bradley: 2 of the 7 towns nearby
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Bradley’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 Bradley’s residents
What is the population of Bradley?
The 2021 Census counted 1,316 people in Bradley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bradley?
The median age was 45.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bradley?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 92% across Clwyd’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bradley?
40% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 7.3% didn’t answer.
Is Bradley good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Bradley’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Bradley?
188 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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