Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Gwernaffield-y-Waun is over 53.4, older than 94% of UK towns
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 905 residents and 413 households in Gwernaffield-y-Waun. The census found that 57% of households live in a detached house in the village. In Gwernaffield-y-Waun, 98% of residents describe themselves as White British, beside 90% across Wales’s towns.
In Gwernaffield-y-Waun, 32% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 93% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
9.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across Wales’s towns. As a yardstick, 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.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 5.4% in Gwernaffield-y-Waun, less than in 99% 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%.
A third of Gwernaffield-y-Waun’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 25% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across Wales’s towns: 9.1%. The census found that 4.2% of adults are full-time students in the village.
A smaller share of households with dependent children than 96% of UK towns: 19%
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.
3.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Wales’s towns, against 1.2% in Gwernaffield-y-Waun. One-person households are rarer here than in 64% of UK towns. For households with dependent children, the comparison across Wales’s towns is 27%. The average household has 2.2 people.
8.7% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 92% 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
Where just over a fifth of households have no car or van across Wales’s towns, Gwernaffield-y-Waun has 11%. The usual figure: 29% of households live in a terraced house across Wales’s towns.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns, at 100%
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
The share of residents born outside the UK is 3.1%, against 7.4% across Wales’s towns. As a yardstick, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%).
Welsh is spoken by 13% of Gwernaffield-y-Waun’s residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Across Welsh towns, 16% of residents can speak Welsh; here 118 people, 13% of those aged 3 and over, said they can: more than in 61% of Welsh towns. Within Clwyd, Llanfairfechan has the largest share, 44%.
In Gwernaffield-y-Waun, 45% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 76% 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: 98% of Gwernaffield-y-Waun · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian stands at 49%. Typically, 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns.
Above 86% of UK towns: 54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership
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
Some 39 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Against that, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Gwernaffield-y-Waun has fewer adults who have never married than nearly four fifths of UK towns, at 28%. By its share of unpaid carers (12%), Gwernaffield-y-Waun is above 97% of UK towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 30%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
16% of Gwernaffield-y-Waun’s adults have no qualification (20% across Wales’s towns), and 30% have one at degree level (31%).
No nearby town is as old as Gwernaffield-y-Waun
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gwernaffield-y-Waun | 905 | — | 53.4 | 32% | 19% |
| Mold | 9,890 | 1.9 mi | 45.1 | 23% | 27% |
| Soughton | 1,697 | 2.7 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 23% |
| Mynydd Isa | 4,738 | 3.2 mi | 50 | 29% | 25% |
| Northop | 1,030 | 3.4 mi | 50.9 | 27% | 23% |
| Northop Hall | 1,826 | 4.6 mi | 45.1 | 23% | 29% |
| Buckley | 13,562 | 4.6 mi | 43.3 | 20% | 28% |
| Pentre Halkyn | 1,082 | 4.9 mi | 51.1 | 29% | 22% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Gwernaffield-y-Waun’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 Gwernaffield-y-Waun’s residents
What is the population of Gwernaffield-y-Waun?
The 2021 Census counted 905 people in Gwernaffield-y-Waun’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Gwernaffield-y-Waun?
The median age was 53.4 at the 2021 Census. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Gwernaffield-y-Waun?
98% 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 Gwernaffield-y-Waun?
45% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Gwernaffield-y-Waun good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Gwernaffield-y-Waun’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Gwernaffield-y-Waun?
118 residents aged 3 and over, 13%, 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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