Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0Kinmel Bay sits below 97% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (5.6%)
Where 24% of households live in a detached house across Wales’s towns, Kinmel Bay has 60%. 9,016 residents in 3,934 households: that is Kinmel Bay at the 2021 Census. For Kinmel Bay, the census puts households with dependent children at 25%. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are scarce here: 46%, fewer than in 64% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Kinmel Bay’s people
Fewer people than in 2011
ONS mid-year estimates put Kinmel Bay at 9,800 in 2011 and 9,500 in 2024, down 4%, against 4% for Wales: slower growth than in 95% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Many carers
1,163 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 13% of those 5 and over: more than in 99% of UK towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Older than most towns
Half of Kinmel Bay’s residents are under 50.3 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% are 65 or over, against 21% across Wales’s towns. Ages ↓
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.
From 2011 to 2024, 95% of UK towns grew faster than Kinmel Bay: −4%
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Kinmel Bay’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 9,800 people in 2011; 9,500 in 2024.
The 65 and over age group moved most (+14%); the 0 to 15 group moved least (−20%).
Kinmel Bay is older than 86% of UK towns: a median age of 50.3
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
28% of residents are 65 or over (Wales’s towns: 21%). Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 9.8%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Kinmel Bay, 50.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
6.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 89% 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%.
In Kinmel Bay, 5.3% of adults are full-time students, beside 8% across Wales’s towns. Elsewhere, 9.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Wales’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
More shared houses than 82% of UK towns: 3.3% of households
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.
At 2.3 people, the average household compares with 2.3 across Wales’s towns. In Kinmel Bay, 29% of households are one person living alone. Across Wales’s towns, shared households of unrelated adults come to 3.1%.
Households in flats: 4.1%, a lower share than 88% 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
In one household in 7 there is no car or van. The wider picture: 14% of households live in a flat or apartment across Wales’s towns.
Below 86% of UK towns: 3.4% of residents were born outside the UK
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Of residents born abroad, 12% arrived in 2017 or later, against 23% across Wales’s towns. Residents whose main language is English are more common here than in 82% of UK towns. For comparison, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.3%) or in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%).
Kinmel Bay: 11% of residents speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Asked in 2021, 1,004 residents aged 3 and over, 11%, said they can speak Welsh; across Welsh towns, 16%: fewer than in 53% of Welsh towns. No town in Clwyd beats Llanfairfechan (44%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 95%, a higher share than 75% 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: 95% of Kinmel Bay · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.3%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Chinese (0.5%). The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 90% across Wales’s towns. The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 50%, against 43% across Wales’s towns.
More unpaid carers than 99% of UK towns: 13%
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 535 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. For comparison, 10% of residents give unpaid care across Wales’s towns. Against a figure of 38% across Wales’s towns, the share of adults who have never married in Kinmel Bay comes in at 32%.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 21%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 21% of Kinmel Bay’s adults, against 31% across Wales’s towns; 27% have no qualification (20%).
60th highest median age among 482 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
The youngest is Tidworth (28.4) and the oldest Barton on Sea (65.3). Nearest to Kinmel Bay in age: Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook (50.3), Wroughton (50.3), Ecclesfield and Grenoside (50.4) and Southwell (50.4).
Kinmel Bay is younger than 3 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 Kinmel Bay’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. Kinmel Bay’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 9,518 people in 2021, against 9,016 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 Kinmel Bay’s residents
What is the population of Kinmel Bay?
The 2021 Census counted 9,016 people in Kinmel Bay’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 9,500 people in mid-2024, 4% fewer than in 2011.
What is the average age in Kinmel Bay?
The median age was 50.3 at the 2021 Census, older than 86% of UK towns. 9.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Kinmel Bay?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 92% across Clwyd’s towns. 3.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Kinmel Bay?
41% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Kinmel Bay good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Kinmel Bay’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Kinmel Bay?
1,004 residents aged 3 and over, 11%, 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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