Photo: Nilfanion · CC BY-SA 4.0Older than 98% of UK towns: half of Ferryside is over 57.8
Set against 27% across Wales’s towns, 18% of households have dependent children in Ferryside. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 864, in 408 households. For Ferryside, the census puts households in detached houses at 47%. Residents who describe themselves as White British are more common here than in 82% of UK towns.
Ferryside ranks above 97% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 35%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 60–64: just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, 21% of residents are 65 or over. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 7.8%.
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.
3.7% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 91% 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%.
Against a figure of 9.1% across Wales’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year in Ferryside comes in at 5.5%. The benchmark for full-time students across Wales’s towns: 8%.
Households here average 2.1 people, below 92% 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.
Ferryside sits close to the norm on shared households of unrelated adults: 3.2%, about the same as across Wales’s towns. Census figures put one-person households at 31% here.
Only 4.2% of households live in a flat or apartment in Ferryside
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 without a car or van make up 9.1%, against 21% across Wales’s towns. Lower than in 81% of UK towns: 13% of households live in a terraced house. As a yardstick, 14% of households live in a flat or apartment across Wales’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English make up 100% in Ferryside, more than in 99% 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
The figure for residents born outside the UK is 4.8% in Ferryside and 7.4% across Wales’s towns. Elsewhere, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.4%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1%).
34% of people in Ferryside speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
34% of residents aged 3 and over, 292 people, said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, more than in 84% of Welsh towns (Welsh towns: 16%). No town in Dyfed beats Tumble (62%).
Ferryside: 56% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 84% 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: 95% of Ferryside · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White British are Other White (3.2%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Indian (0.4%). As a yardstick, 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 37%, fewer than in 71% of UK towns.
22% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 98% 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
Across Wales’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 43%; Ferryside has 57%. To put it in context, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Census figures put unpaid carers at 12% locally.
A degree-level qualification for 45% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
45% of Ferryside’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 31% across Wales’s towns; 14% have none (20%).
No nearby town is as old as Ferryside
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Ferryside’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 Ferryside’s residents
What is the population of Ferryside?
The 2021 Census counted 864 people in Ferryside’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ferryside?
The median age was 57.8 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ferryside?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 4.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ferryside?
37% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Ferryside good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Ferryside’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Ferryside?
292 residents aged 3 and over, 34%, 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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