Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0New Brighton ranks below 99% of UK towns on households in flats: 0.3%
In New Brighton, one in ten households live in a terraced house, beside 29% across Wales’s towns. There were 393 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 889 residents. For New Brighton, the census puts residents who describe themselves as White British at 98%. Residents aged 15 to 24 are rarer here than in 92% of UK towns.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 69% of UK towns: 24%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Half of New Brighton’s residents are over 44.8, older than in 52% of UK towns. In Penrhyn Bay, the oldest of Clwyd’s towns by this measure, it is 34%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Below 96% of UK towns: 6.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
34% of New Brighton’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 village has more full-time students than 69% of UK towns, at 5.3%. Elsewhere, nearly one in ten 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.
Fewer people live alone than in 72% of UK towns: 27% 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.
Across Wales’s towns, households average 2.3 people; in New Brighton, 2.3. Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.8% of the total. A quarter of households have dependent children, fewer than in 68% of UK towns. Set beside that, nearly a third of households are one person living alone across Wales’s towns.
New Brighton sits below 88% of UK towns for households without a car or van (8.9%)
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 in detached houses is 35%, against 24% across Wales’s towns. The wider picture: 21% of households have no car or van across Wales’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK make up 2.6% in New Brighton, less than in 95% 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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.2%) and in Africa (0.5%). For comparison, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. Few places have as many residents whose main language is English: 100% here, more than in 99% of UK towns.
Welsh speakers make up 14% of New Brighton
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Against 16% across Welsh towns, 14% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Welsh here (125 people): more than in 64% of Welsh towns. No town in Clwyd beats Llanfairfechan (44%).
New Brighton ranks above 64% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 52%
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 New Brighton · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: just over two fifths of the total. Across Wales’s towns, 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
11% of residents give unpaid care, a share 87% of UK towns don’t reach
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
For 29 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Measured more widely, one in ten residents give unpaid care across Wales’s towns. Married adults and civil partners: 48% here and 43% across Wales’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 32% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across Wales’s towns, 31% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in New Brighton, 32%, and 17% have none, against 20%.
New Brighton is younger than 5 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Brighton | 889 | — | 44.8 | 24% | 25% |
| Mynydd Isa | 4,738 | 0.7 mi | 50 | 29% | 25% |
| Soughton | 1,697 | 0.8 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 23% |
| Mold | 9,890 | 1.4 mi | 45.1 | 23% | 27% |
| Buckley | 13,562 | 1.8 mi | 43.3 | 20% | 28% |
| Northop Hall | 1,826 | 1.8 mi | 45.1 | 23% | 29% |
| Northop | 1,030 | 2 mi | 50.9 | 27% | 23% |
| Connah's Quay | 16,768 | 3.2 mi | 40.4 | 18% | 31% |
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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 New Brighton’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 New Brighton’s residents
What is the population of New Brighton?
The 2021 Census counted 889 people in New Brighton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in New Brighton?
The median age was 44.8 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is New Brighton?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 92% across Clwyd’s towns. 2.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in New Brighton?
41% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6.4% didn’t answer.
Is New Brighton good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on New Brighton’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in New Brighton?
125 residents aged 3 and over, 14%, 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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