Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer households in flats than 99% of UK towns: 0.3%
Residents with no religion: 52%, above 96% of UK towns. Census figures put households in terraced houses at 7.1% in Garnant. Few places have so few one-person households: 25% here, fewer than in 86% of UK towns. The village had 689 residents in 296 households at the 2021 Census.
Garnant: 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24, above 68% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With a median age of 44.1, Garnant is younger than 53% of UK towns. Across Garnant, nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over. To put it in context, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Wales’s towns. In Saundersfoot, the oldest of Dyfed’s towns by this measure, it is 39%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 98% of UK towns: 5.9%
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 Garnant, 20% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 34% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. Across the comparison, 9.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Wales’s towns. The census found that 6.7% of adults are full-time students here.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2.3 people per household, more than in 64% 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.
26% of households have dependent children (Wales’s towns: 27%). Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 2.4% in Garnant.
Fewer car-free households than 50% of UK towns: 15%
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
For Garnant, the census puts households in detached houses at 29%. As a yardstick, just over a fifth of households have no car or van across Wales’s towns.
Below 96% of UK towns: 2.5% of residents were born outside the UK
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
99% of residents have English as their main language; across Wales’s towns the figure is 96%. As a yardstick, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.2%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.2%).
Garnant: 50% of residents speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
50% of residents aged 3 and over, 328 people, said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, more than in 92% of Welsh towns (Welsh towns: 16%). Within Dyfed, Tumble has the largest share, 62%.
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 85% 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 Garnant · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (2%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Caribbean (0.7%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are scarce here: 41%, fewer than in 91% of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 90% across Wales’s towns.
Garnant sits above 99% of UK towns for unpaid carers (14%)
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, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; in Garnant, 35%. Still, fewer married adults and civil partners than in 64% of UK towns: 46%. As a reference point, 10% of residents give unpaid care across Wales’s towns. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 45 residents.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 27% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 27% of adults in Garnant, 31% across Wales’s towns; 26% have no qualification, against 20%. A levels are as far as 17% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
No nearby town is as young as Garnant
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garnant | 689 | — | 44.1 | 23% | 26% |
| Glanaman | 3,866 | 0.4 mi | 45 | 22% | 25% |
| Brynamman | 2,636 | 1.5 mi | 46.1 | 21% | 25% |
| Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen | 2,744 | 1.7 mi | 45.8 | 24% | 26% |
| Ammanford | 8,282 | 3.5 mi | 44.7 | 24% | 27% |
| Cwmllynfell and Ystradowen | 1,354 | 3.7 mi | 49 | 26% | 26% |
| Llandybie | 2,563 | 4.4 mi | 47.2 | 27% | 29% |
| Penybanc | 1,165 | 4.5 mi | 51.3 | 31% | 25% |
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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 Garnant’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 Garnant’s residents
What is the population of Garnant?
The 2021 Census counted 689 people in Garnant’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Garnant?
The median age was 44.1 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Garnant?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 2.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Garnant?
52% said they had no religion and 41% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Garnant good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Garnant’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Garnant?
328 residents aged 3 and over, 50%, 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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