Photo: Marion Phillips · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Bronwydd is over 56.8, older than 98% of UK towns
1.6% of households live in a terraced house, against 29% across Wales’s towns. Bronwydd has fewer one-person households than 99% of UK towns, at 17%. At the 2021 Census Bronwydd was home to 293 people in 126 households. Here, 92% of households live in a detached house.
Residents aged 65 and over: 35%, a higher share than 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 6.9% here and 12% across Wales’s towns. Elsewhere, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
4.6% of adults are full-time students, below 63% of UK towns
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%.
Across Wales’s towns, 29% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine or semi-routine work; Bronwydd has 36% and 20%. Full-time students: 8% across Wales’s towns, for comparison. 7.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Below 97% of UK towns: 18% 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.
4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, about the same as across Wales’s towns. Against that, 27% of households have dependent children across Wales’s towns. Average household size: 2.3 people.
In Bronwydd, 4.6% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 99% 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
Flats are home to 0.8% of households, against 14% across Wales’s towns. For comparison, just over a fifth of households have no car or van across Wales’s towns.
3.4% of residents were born outside the UK, below 86% 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
Where 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns, Bronwydd has 99%. Elsewhere, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.4%), then in the Middle East and Asia (0.3%).
52% of people in Bronwydd speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Welsh speakers number 149, or 52% of residents aged 3 and over, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 92% of them. Within Dyfed, Tumble has the largest share, 62%.
Fewer residents with no religion than 96% of UK towns: 27%
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 Bronwydd · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 43% across Wales’s towns, nearly two thirds of residents describe themselves as Christian here. Locally, 97% of residents describe themselves as White British. Set beside that, 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns.
In Bronwydd, 66% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 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
10 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Set beside that, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 23%, fewer than in 97% of UK towns. At 9.8%, the share of unpaid carers is in line with the figure across Wales’s towns.
Among adults, 38% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Bronwydd’s adults: 38% with a degree-level qualification and 18% with none, against 31% and 20% across Wales’s towns.
The towns around Bronwydd are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronwydd | 293 | — | 56.8 | 35% | 18% |
| Carmarthen | 16,448 | 2.9 mi | 40.3 | 21% | 27% |
| Pencader | 1,061 | 7 mi | 44.5 | 22% | 25% |
| Pontyberem | 1,484 | 9.6 mi | 47.6 | 26% | 27% |
| Llandysul | 1,321 | 9.8 mi | 49.1 | 27% | 22% |
| St Clears | 1,787 | 10.1 mi | 43 | 23% | 27% |
| Pontyates | 1,475 | 10.2 mi | 48.2 | 26% | 23% |
| Tumble | 4,040 | 10.6 mi | 45.5 | 24% | 26% |
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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 Bronwydd’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 Bronwydd’s residents
What is the population of Bronwydd?
The 2021 Census counted 293 people in Bronwydd’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bronwydd?
The median age was 56.8 at the 2021 Census. 6.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bronwydd?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 3.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bronwydd?
27% said they had no religion and 66% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Bronwydd good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Bronwydd’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Bronwydd?
149 residents aged 3 and over, 52%, 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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