Rickeston Hall · Photo: Jeff Gogarty · CC BY-SA 2.0Younger than 98% of UK towns: half of Brawdy is under 32.3
3.4% of households live in a flat or apartment; across Wales’s towns the figure is 14%. In 2021, the Census found 520 residents in Brawdy, living in 147 households. Adults who have never married: 53% of the total. Households without a car or van are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
A higher share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 98% of UK towns, at 18%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 14%, below 92% of UK towns. On average, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
36% women, 64% men
About 55 women for every 100 men. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women. A large institution, such as a prison, barracks, boarding school, university or care home, can tilt a town’s split: the census counts the people living there as residents.
A lower share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns, at 2.5%
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 Brawdy, 31% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. For comparison, 8% of adults are full-time students across Wales’s towns. Locally, 18% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Above 74% of UK towns: 30% of households have dependent children
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.
Nothing unusual on shared households of unrelated adults: 2.7%, close to the figure across Wales’s towns. Few places have so few one-person households: 27% here, fewer than in 72% of UK towns. There are 2.4 people in the average household.
4.8% of households live in a terraced house, below 98% 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
Households in detached houses make up 32%, against 24% across Wales’s towns. As a reference point, 29% of households live in a terraced house across Wales’s towns.
In Brawdy, 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 98% 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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (1.4%) and in EU countries (1.2%). Elsewhere, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. Compared with other places, residents born outside the UK are scarce here: 3.7%, fewer than in 82% of UK towns.
Of Brawdy’s residents, 17% can speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
The 2021 Census found 87 Welsh speakers aged 3 and over, 17% of that age group, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 69% of them. No town in Dyfed beats Tumble (62%).
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 83% of UK towns, at 96%
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 Brawdy · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 42%, against 43% across Wales’s towns. Still, 45% of residents said they have no religion, a higher share than in 74% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British.
Unpaid carers: 4.1%, a lower share than 99% of UK towns
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 carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 7. Measured more widely, one in ten residents give unpaid care across Wales’s towns. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are scarce here: 29%, fewer than in 99% of UK towns.
31% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
31% of Brawdy’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 31% across Wales’s towns; 22% have none (20%).
The towns around Brawdy are all older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brawdy | 520 | — | 32.3 | 14% | 30% |
| St Davids | 1,345 | 5.7 mi | 55.2 | 34% | 16% |
| Haverfordwest | 12,088 | 8.4 mi | 40.4 | 20% | 28% |
| Crundale | 1,065 | 8.5 mi | 45.1 | 25% | 26% |
| Merlin's Bridge | 2,220 | 9.2 mi | 41.9 | 21% | 29% |
| Goodwick | 2,017 | 10.1 mi | 48.1 | 24% | 23% |
| Johnston | 1,766 | 10.2 mi | 43.3 | 24% | 28% |
| Fishguard | 3,422 | 10.2 mi | 52.4 | 32% | 20% |
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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 Brawdy’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 Brawdy’s residents
What is the population of Brawdy?
The 2021 Census counted 520 people in Brawdy’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Brawdy?
The median age was 32.3 at the 2021 Census. 18% of residents were 15 to 24 and 14% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Brawdy?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Brawdy?
45% said they had no religion and 42% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 12% didn’t answer.
Is Brawdy good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Brawdy’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Brawdy?
87 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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