Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.08.2% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 93% of UK towns
With a median age of 48.9, Dyserth is older than 79% of UK towns. The village’s 866 households held 2,038 residents at the 2021 Census. In Dyserth, 96% of residents describe themselves as White British. Compared with 24% across Wales’s towns, 52% of households live in a detached house here.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 24% in Dyserth, more than in 68% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 8.9% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Wales’s towns. For comparison, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns. In Dyserth, just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Dyserth sits below 88% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (6.8%)
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 Dyserth, just over a third of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 23% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. For comparison, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Wales’s towns. Here, 5.3% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Below 73% of UK towns: 25% of households have dependent children
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.
Households in Dyserth hold 2.3 people on average (Wales’s towns: 2.3). Meanwhile, fewer shared households of unrelated adults than in 71% of UK towns: 2%. For households with dependent children, the comparison across Wales’s towns is 27%. 29% of households are one person living alone.
Households in flats make up 5.3% in Dyserth, less than in 82% 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
The share of households without a car or van is 12%, against 21% across Wales’s towns. Set beside that, 14% of households live in a flat or apartment across Wales’s towns.
Dyserth sits below 89% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (3.1%)
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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%). For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across Wales’s towns is 7.4%. Dyserth has more residents whose main language is English than 93% of UK towns, at 99%.
Welsh is spoken by 17% of Dyserth’s residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
342 residents, 17% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh at the 2021 Census, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 69% of Welsh towns. No town in Clwyd beats Llanfairfechan (44%).
Above 65% of UK towns: 52% 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: 96% of Dyserth · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns, against 40% in Dyserth. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (1.5%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Indian (0.2%). Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 43% across Wales’s towns, for comparison.
More unpaid carers than 97% of UK towns: 12%
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
Against a figure of 43% across Wales’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners in Dyserth comes in at 50%. Across Wales’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 10%. The census found that a third of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership locally.
Degree-level qualifications reach 33% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Dyserth, 33% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 31% across Wales’s towns, while 16% have no qualification at all (20%).
A younger town than 3 of the 7 around it: Dyserth
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dyserth | 2,038 | — | 48.9 | 24% | 25% |
| Meliden | 2,002 | 1.3 mi | 46.3 | 24% | 27% |
| Rhuddlan | 3,791 | 2.1 mi | 50.8 | 29% | 21% |
| Prestatyn | 16,678 | 2.5 mi | 50.3 | 29% | 23% |
| Rhyl | 26,982 | 2.9 mi | 41.8 | 21% | 28% |
| St Asaph | 3,483 | 3.1 mi | 48.7 | 26% | 24% |
| Bodelwyddan | 1,785 | 4.3 mi | 42.2 | 20% | 30% |
| Kinmel Bay | 9,016 | 4.5 mi | 50.3 | 28% | 25% |
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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 Dyserth’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 Dyserth’s residents
What is the population of Dyserth?
The 2021 Census counted 2,038 people in Dyserth’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dyserth?
The median age was 48.9 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dyserth?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 92% across Clwyd’s towns. 3.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dyserth?
40% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Dyserth good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Dyserth’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Dyserth?
342 residents aged 3 and over, 17%, 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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