Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Pentre Halkyn ranks below 99% of UK towns on households in flats: 0.6%
The figure for households with dependent children is 22% in Pentre Halkyn and 27% across Wales’s towns. At the 2021 Census Pentre Halkyn was home to 1,082 people in 500 households. Across Pentre Halkyn, 5.7% of households have no car or van. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 97%, more than in 94% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Pentre Halkyn’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Pentre Halkyn’s residents are under 51.1 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 29% 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).
Older than 90% of UK towns: half of Pentre Halkyn is over 51.1
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With residents aged 65 and over at 29%, Pentre Halkyn is ahead of 88% of UK towns on that count. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 9.3%.
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.
Pentre Halkyn ranks below 99% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 4.9%
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 Pentre Halkyn, 35% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 23% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 9.1%. Locally, 4.7% of adults are full-time students.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 85% 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.
The share of one-person households is 30%, against 32% across Wales’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults: 2% of the total.
57% of households live in a detached house, more than in 95% 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 in terraced houses trails 83% of UK towns: 12%. 0.6% of households live in a flat, less than in 99% of UK towns; 57% in a detached house, against 24% across Wales’s towns.
Below 90% of UK towns: 3.1% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.4%) and in the rest of Europe (0.6%). More residents whose main language is English than in 94% of UK towns: 99%. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across Wales’s towns: 7.4%.
Pentre Halkyn’s residents: 13% speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
The 2021 Census found 141 Welsh speakers aged 3 and over, 13% of that age group, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 61% of them. Within Clwyd, Llanfairfechan has the largest share, 44%.
In Pentre Halkyn, 55% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 80% 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: 97% of Pentre Halkyn · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (1.7%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and Pakistani (0.1%). Pentre Halkyn has fewer residents with no religion than nearly two thirds of UK towns, at 38%. To put it in context, 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns.
A lower share of adults who have never married than 76% of UK towns, at 29%
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
36 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. On married adults and civil partners, Pentre Halkyn sits higher than two thirds of UK towns: 51%. Set beside that, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Unpaid carers make up 11% of residents, against 10% across Wales’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 31% of adults
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 Pentre Halkyn, 18%, while 31% hold one at degree level (31%).
Pentre Halkyn and its 7 nearest towns: 1 of them are older
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
- “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 Pentre Halkyn’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 Pentre Halkyn’s residents
What is the population of Pentre Halkyn?
The 2021 Census counted 1,082 people in Pentre Halkyn’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pentre Halkyn?
The median age was 51.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pentre Halkyn?
97% 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 Pentre Halkyn?
38% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Pentre Halkyn good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Pentre Halkyn’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Pentre Halkyn?
141 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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