Photo: John Lord · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Dre-fach is over 52.6, older than 93% of UK towns
97% of residents describe themselves as White British; across Wales’s towns the figure is 90%. Few places have so few households in terraced houses: 2.6% here, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. In 2021, the Census found 305 residents in Dre-fach, living in 113 households. Census figures put households without a car or van at 3.5% in the village.
Dre-fach sits below 99% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (6.9%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
In Dre-fach, 28% of residents are 65 or over, beside 21% across Wales’s towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 83 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.
In Dre-fach, 13% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 94% 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%.
Here 4% of adults are full-time students, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 8%. Elsewhere, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Wales’s towns.
Only 21% of households are one person living alone in Dre-fach
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 Dre-fach, 2.5. On the census count, 3.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 66% of UK towns. Set beside that, 32% of households are one person living alone across Wales’s towns.
Dre-fach: 80% of households live in a detached house, above 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 0.9% of households, against 14% across Wales’s towns. Measured more widely, 24% of households live in a detached house across Wales’s towns.
3% born outside the UK, fewer than in 91% 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
Residents whose main language is English make up 100%, against 96% across Wales’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.6%) or in EU countries (1.3%).
Dre-fach’s Welsh speakers make up 49% of residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Asked in 2021, 145 residents aged 3 and over, 49%, said they can speak Welsh; across Welsh towns, 16%: more than in 91% of Welsh towns. Within Dyfed, Tumble has the largest share, 62%.
44% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 70% 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: 97% of Dre-fach · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Here 51% of residents describe themselves as Christian, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 43%. Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 47%.
Dre-fach ranks below 79% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 28%
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
6 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Against that, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. On married adults and civil partners, Dre-fach sits lower than 52% of UK towns: 48%. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Wales’s towns, at 9.4%.
36% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 36% of its adults qualified to degree level, Dre-fach compares with 31% across Wales’s towns; another 10% hold no qualification (20%).
2 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Dre-fach
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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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 Dre-fach’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 Dre-fach’s residents
What is the population of Dre-fach?
The 2021 Census counted 305 people in Dre-fach’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dre-fach?
The median age was 52.6 at the 2021 Census. 6.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dre-fach?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dre-fach?
44% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.6% didn’t answer.
Is Dre-fach good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Dre-fach’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Dre-fach?
145 residents aged 3 and over, 49%, 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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