Photo: John Lucas · CC BY-SA 2.00.9% of households live in a flat or apartment, below 99% of UK towns
Compared with 21% across Wales’s towns, nearly one in ten households have no car or van here. Higher than in 71% of UK towns: 25% of residents are 65 or over. There were 107 households in Capel Bangor at the 2021 Census, home to 257 residents. Residents who describe themselves as White British account for 96%.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 9% in Capel Bangor, less than in 74% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 70–74 than any other five-year age: one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across Wales’s towns. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Wales’s towns. Half of Capel Bangor’s residents are over 45.2, older than in 55% of UK 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.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 5.5% in Capel Bangor, less than in 99% 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%.
By class, 47% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 11% in routine and semi-routine work (Wales’s towns: 29% and 27%). For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across Wales’s towns is 9.1%. Here, 6.4% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Capel Bangor ranks below 79% of UK towns on one-person households: 26%
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.
Across Wales’s towns, households average 2.3 people; in Capel Bangor, 2.3. Census figures put households with dependent children at 28% in the village. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. One-person households: 32% across Wales’s towns, for comparison.
A village of detached houses: 55% of households live in one
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
13% of households live in a terraced house, against 29% across Wales’s towns. For households in detached houses, the comparison across Wales’s towns is 24%.
Capel Bangor sits below 60% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (5.4%)
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
Residents whose main language is English make up 98%, against 96% across Wales’s towns. By way of comparison, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns.
Welsh, spoken by 54% of Capel Bangor’s residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Across Welsh towns, 16% of residents can speak Welsh; here 135 people, 54% of those aged 3 and over, said they can: more than in 93% of Welsh towns. Within Dyfed, Tumble has the largest share, 62%.
Capel Bangor ranks above 67% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 53%
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 Capel Bangor · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
With residents with no religion at 42%, Capel Bangor is ahead of 58% of UK towns on that count. Against that, 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns.
Unpaid carers make up 11% in Capel Bangor, more than in 87% 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
The share of married adults and civil partners is 49%, against 43% across Wales’s towns. Across the comparison, one in ten residents give unpaid care across Wales’s towns. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 7. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 55% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 47% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Capel Bangor’s adults: 47% with a degree-level qualification and 13% with none, against 31% and 20% across Wales’s towns. For 15%, A levels are the highest qualification so far, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Older than Capel Bangor: 2 of the 5 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capel Bangor | 257 | — | 45.2 | 25% | 28% |
| Penrhyn-coch | 1,378 | 2.7 mi | 42.3 | 20% | 29% |
| Llanbadarn Fawr | 1,766 | 3.7 mi | 40.3 | 20% | 22% |
| Bow Street | 1,101 | 3.7 mi | 45.3 | 23% | 26% |
| Aberystwyth | 14,646 | 4.3 mi | 25 | 14% | 19% |
| Borth | 1,115 | 6.6 mi | 52.2 | 29% | 18% |
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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.
- “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 Capel Bangor’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 Capel Bangor’s residents
What is the population of Capel Bangor?
The 2021 Census counted 257 people in Capel Bangor’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Capel Bangor?
The median age was 45.2 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Capel Bangor?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 5.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Capel Bangor?
42% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Capel Bangor good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Capel Bangor’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Capel Bangor?
135 residents aged 3 and over, 54%, 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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