Photo: Deborah Tilley · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 54.9: Aberporth is older than 97% of UK towns
Here a fifth of households have dependent children, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 27%. At the 2021 Census, 1,075 people lived in Aberporth, in 548 households. In Aberporth, 5.3% of households live in a terraced house. 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 92% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Aberporth’s people
A Welsh-speaking village
450 residents, 43% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh in 2021, more than in 89% of Welsh towns. Welsh language ↓
Older than most towns
Half of Aberporth’s residents are under 54.9 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 35% are 65 or over, against 21% across Wales’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
145 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 14% of those 5 and over: more than in 99% of UK towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Aberporth sits above 97% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (35%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here 6.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 12%. Across the comparison, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 93% of UK towns: 3.6%
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 Aberporth, 34% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. The benchmark for full-time students across Wales’s towns: 8%. Locally, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Aberporth: 38% of households are one person living alone, above 97% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Dyfed’s towns and Wales’s towns
People per household
Wales’s towns.
In Aberporth the average household is 2 people, beside 2.3 across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, nearly a third of households are one person living alone. For Aberporth, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 1.5%.
40% of households live in a detached house, a share 76% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Compared with 14% across Wales’s towns, 8.1% of households live in a flat or apartment here. On the census count, 15% of households have no car or van. Across Wales’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 24%.
Only 2.9% of residents were born outside the UK in Aberporth
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
Set against 96% across Wales’s towns, 99% of residents have English as their main language in Aberporth. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.4%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). For comparison, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns.
Welsh, spoken by 43% of Aberporth’s residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Against 16% across Welsh towns, 43% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Welsh here (450 people): more than in 89% of Welsh towns. Top of Dyfed: Tumble, at 62%.
44% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 69% 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: 96% of Aberporth · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
43% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns, against 48% in Aberporth. The wider picture: 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns. Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (1.6%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Chinese (0.4%).
14% of residents give unpaid care, a share 99% 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
By its share of adults who have never married (28%), Aberporth is below 78% of UK towns. At 50 hours or more a week, 46 people give unpaid care. Married adults and civil partners are more common here than in 58% of UK towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 36%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Aberporth counts 36% of its adults, against 31% across Wales’s towns; at the other end, 16% have no qualification (20%).
2 of the 5 nearest towns are older than Aberporth
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberporth | 1,075 | — | 54.9 | 35% | 20% |
| Cardigan | 3,767 | 5.8 mi | 47 | 27% | 23% |
| St Dogmaels | 1,013 | 6.9 mi | 55.7 | 33% | 19% |
| Newcastle Emlyn | 1,842 | 7.3 mi | 49.8 | 29% | 23% |
| New Quay | 1,046 | 9.7 mi | 58.5 | 37% | 13% |
| Llandysul | 1,321 | 11.7 mi | 49.1 | 27% | 22% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Dyfed’s towns” and “Wales’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Dyfed (or Wales), summed the same way as Aberporth’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 Aberporth’s residents
What is the population of Aberporth?
The 2021 Census counted 1,075 people in Aberporth’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Aberporth?
The median age was 54.9 at the 2021 Census. 6.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Aberporth?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 2.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Aberporth?
44% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Aberporth good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Aberporth’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Aberporth?
450 residents aged 3 and over, 43%, 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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