Photo: Liquidia · CC BY-SA 3.0Connah's Quay is younger than 78% of UK towns: a median age of 40.4
Households with dependent children make up 31%, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Connah's Quay’s 6,962 households held 16,768 residents at the 2021 Census. Census figures put one-person households at 26% here. 6.5% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 75% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Connah's Quay’s people
Fewer people than in 2011
ONS mid-year estimates put Connah's Quay at 16,800 in 2011 and 16,700 in 2024, down 1%, against 4% for Wales: slower growth than in 88% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
−1% since 2011: slower than 88% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Connah's Quay’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 16,800 people in 2011; 16,700 in 2024.
By age, the 65 and over group changed most (+33%) and the 16 to 29 group least (−14%).
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 80% of UK towns: 18%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 50–54, with 7.6% of residents. More residents aged 15 to 24 than in 87% of UK towns: 11%. Across the comparison, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns. In Penrhyn Bay, the oldest of Clwyd’s towns by this measure, it is 34%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Connah's Quay, 40.4. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
5.8% of adults are full-time students, a share 80% of UK towns don’t reach
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%.
7% of residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 9.1% across Wales’s towns. Elsewhere, 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.
2.4 people per household, more than in 80% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across Wales’s towns: 2.9%.
Below 71% of UK towns: 15% of households live in a terraced 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
Nearly a quarter of households live in a detached house across Wales’s towns, against 33% in Connah's Quay. Here, 16% of households have no car or van. Against that, 29% of households live in a terraced house across Wales’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English make up 93% in Connah's Quay, less than in 86% 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 15%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 7.4%; Connah's Quay has 9.8%. On average, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (8.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%).
Connah's Quay’s residents: 8.2% speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Welsh speakers number 1,325, or 8.2% of residents aged 3 and over, against 16% across Welsh towns: fewer than in 86% of them. Llanfairfechan leads Clwyd with 44%.
In Connah's Quay, 43% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 65% of UK towns
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: 90% of Connah's Quay · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (7.9%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and Chinese (0.3%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are scarce here: 90%, fewer than in 64% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, 47% of residents said they have no religion. Christians make up 49% of residents, against 43% across Wales’s towns.
36% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, more than in 73% 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
9.9% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across Wales’s towns. Fewer married adults and civil partners than in 65% of UK towns: 46%. On average, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. For 542 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week.
24% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across Wales’s towns, 20% of adults have no qualification; in Connah's Quay, 20%, while 24% hold one at degree level (31%).
From a median age of 39 in Connah's Quay North to 42 in Connah's Quay Wepre
The town’s 3 neighbourhoods (ONS middle-layer areas with 500+ residents inside it, named by the House of Commons Library), youngest first. Census 2021.
Connah's Quay Wepre is the oldest area, with 19% aged 65 or over; Connah's Quay North the youngest (median age 39). Families with children are most common in Connah's Quay South & Northop Hall (36% of households).
Among 336 UK towns of 12,000 to 23,000 people, the 58th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Aberystwyth (25), the youngest, and Sidmouth (60.4), the oldest. Nearest to Connah's Quay in age: Tonypandy (40.3), Adwick le Street (40.4), Haverfordwest (40.4) and Kirkby-in-Ashfield (40.5).
A younger town than 6 of the 7 around it: Connah's Quay
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connah's Quay | 16,768 | — | 40.4 | 18% | 31% |
| Shotton | 6,500 | 1.1 mi | 40.9 | 18% | 27% |
| Northop Hall | 1,826 | 1.4 mi | 45.1 | 23% | 29% |
| Aston | 2,847 | 1.6 mi | 48.6 | 27% | 27% |
| Hawarden | 14,284 | 2.3 mi | 46.8 | 23% | 26% |
| Garden City | 2,427 | 2.4 mi | 34.9 | 11% | 33% |
| Northop | 1,030 | 2.8 mi | 50.9 | 27% | 23% |
| Buckley | 13,562 | 3.1 mi | 43.3 | 20% | 28% |
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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 Connah's Quay’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Connah's Quay’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 16,768 people in 2021, against 16,768 in the built-up area.
- 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 Connah's Quay’s residents
What is the population of Connah's Quay?
The 2021 Census counted 16,768 people in Connah's Quay’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 16,700 people in mid-2024, about as many as in 2011.
What is the average age in Connah's Quay?
The median age was 40.4 at the 2021 Census, younger than 78% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 18% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Connah's Quay?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 92% across Clwyd’s towns. 9.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Connah's Quay?
43% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Connah's Quay good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Families are most common in Connah's Quay South & Northop Hall (36% of households). Schools are on Connah's Quay’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Connah's Quay?
1,325 residents aged 3 and over, 8.2%, 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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024 · House of Commons Library MSOA names. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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