Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Rhosesmor sits below 99% of UK towns for households in flats (0.4%)
With residents who describe themselves as White British at 97%, Rhosesmor is ahead of 98% of UK towns on that count. Locally, 13% of residents give unpaid care. Households in detached houses are more common here than in 93% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Rhosesmor was home to 546 people in 235 households.
Rhosesmor is older than 76% of UK towns: a median age of 48.4
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 50–54: 9.7% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Wales’s towns. In Rhosesmor, 24% of residents are 65 or over.
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.
Rhosesmor sits below 82% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (7.2%)
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%.
Here 5.1% of adults are full-time students, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 8%. As a yardstick, 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.
A lower share of households with dependent children than 78% of UK towns, at 24%
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.
There is little gap on shared households of unrelated adults: 3%, about the same as across Wales’s towns. Households here average 2.3 people each. Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 30%, fewer than in 51% of UK towns. The wider picture: 27% of households have dependent children across Wales’s towns.
Only 11% of households have no car or van in Rhosesmor
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 29% of households live in a terraced house across Wales’s towns, Rhosesmor has 18%. Against that, 21% of households have no car or van across Wales’s towns.
Above 98% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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 (2%) and in Africa (1.5%). For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across Wales’s towns is 96%. Rhosesmor has fewer residents born outside the UK than two thirds of UK towns, at 4.8%.
Rhosesmor: 17% of residents speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Against 16% across Welsh towns, 17% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Welsh here (92 people): more than in 69% of Welsh towns. Top of Clwyd: Llanfairfechan, at 44%.
Rhosesmor ranks above 87% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 57%
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 Rhosesmor · Clwyd’s towns 92% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion trails nearly four fifths of UK towns: 36%. Set beside that, 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns.
Rhosesmor sits above 60% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (49%)
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
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 22 people. Against that, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Nearly a third of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 51% of UK towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 38%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 31% across Wales’s towns, 38% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 14% hold no qualification (20%).
Rhosesmor sits below 4 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhosesmor | 546 | — | 48.4 | 24% | 24% |
| Northop | 1,030 | 1.8 mi | 50.9 | 27% | 23% |
| Soughton | 1,697 | 2.3 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 23% |
| Pentre Halkyn | 1,082 | 2.6 mi | 51.1 | 29% | 22% |
| Flint | 12,776 | 3 mi | 39.8 | 18% | 29% |
| Mold | 9,890 | 3.2 mi | 45.1 | 23% | 27% |
| Northop Hall | 1,826 | 3.6 mi | 45.1 | 23% | 29% |
| Mynydd Isa | 4,738 | 3.8 mi | 50 | 29% | 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 Rhosesmor’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 Rhosesmor’s residents
What is the population of Rhosesmor?
The 2021 Census counted 546 people in Rhosesmor’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Rhosesmor?
The median age was 48.4 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Rhosesmor?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 92% across Clwyd’s towns. 4.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Rhosesmor?
36% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 6% didn’t answer.
Is Rhosesmor good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Rhosesmor’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Rhosesmor?
92 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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