Photo: Chris Andrews · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer car-free households than 99% of UK towns: 2.2%
7.4% of households live in a terraced house, against 29% across Wales’s towns. At 23%, the share of one-person households is lower than in 93% of UK towns. Bryn Pydew had 389 residents in 135 households at the 2021 Census. In Bryn Pydew, 15% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Half of Bryn Pydew is over 46.4, older than 64% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With residents aged 65 and over at 24%, Bryn Pydew is ahead of 64% of UK towns on that count. More residents are 15–19 than any other five-year age: 12% of residents, 2.1 times the share across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 113 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 12%, a higher share than 97% 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%.
Compared with 9.1% across Wales’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier here. For comparison, 8% of adults are full-time students 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 62% 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.
Compared with 27% across Wales’s towns, 26% of households have dependent children here. In Bryn Pydew, 2.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Bryn Pydew: 61% of households live in a detached house, above 97% 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
2.2% of households live in a flat or apartment (Wales’s towns: 14%). The share of households in detached houses across Wales’s towns is 24%.
In Bryn Pydew, 2.1% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
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
Compared with 96% across Wales’s towns, 98% of residents have English as their main language here. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across Wales’s towns: 7.4%. Residents born abroad were most often born in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%), then in EU countries (0.8%).
Of Bryn Pydew’s residents, 26% can speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
The 2021 Census found 99 Welsh speakers aged 3 and over, 26% of that age group, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 80% of them. No town in Clwyd beats Llanfairfechan (44%).
Above 96% of UK towns: 97% of residents describe themselves as White British
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: 97% of Bryn Pydew · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 47% across Wales’s towns, 28% of residents said they have no religion here. For comparison, 90% of residents describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns. Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (1%), Mixed or multiple (0.8%) and Pakistani (0.5%).
A larger share of married adults and civil partners than 60% of UK towns: 50%
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
Adults who have never married account for 33%. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Wales’s towns: 9.4%.
37% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 37% of adults in Bryn Pydew (Wales’s towns: 31%), and no qualification by 16% (Wales’s towns: 20%). 17% have A levels as their highest qualification, many of them still studying for a degree.
Of the 7 towns nearest Bryn Pydew, 6 are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryn Pydew | 389 | — | 46.4 | 24% | 26% |
| Penrhyn Bay | 4,201 | 1.2 mi | 54.6 | 34% | 21% |
| Conwy | 15,706 | 1.6 mi | 48.7 | 27% | 24% |
| Llandudno | 14,699 | 2.2 mi | 50.4 | 28% | 20% |
| Llansanffraid Glan Conwy | 1,663 | 2.3 mi | 51.9 | 29% | 20% |
| Colwyn Bay | 29,273 | 2.4 mi | 47.3 | 26% | 25% |
| Dwygyfylchi | 1,403 | 4.9 mi | 50.6 | 26% | 23% |
| Mynydd Marian | 1,351 | 5.5 mi | 39.8 | 15% | 34% |
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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 Bryn Pydew’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 Bryn Pydew’s residents
What is the population of Bryn Pydew?
The 2021 Census counted 389 people in Bryn Pydew’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bryn Pydew?
The median age was 46.4 at the 2021 Census. 15% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
Is Bryn Pydew a student village?
Yes: 12% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 Census (37 people), against 8% across Wales’s towns.
How diverse is Bryn Pydew?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 92% across Clwyd’s towns. 2.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bryn Pydew?
28% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 21% didn’t answer.
Is Bryn Pydew good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Bryn Pydew’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Bryn Pydew?
99 residents aged 3 and over, 26%, 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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