Photo: Deborah Tilley · CC BY-SA 2.0A Welsh-speaking village: 28% of Goodwick’s residents speak Welsh
One-person households make up 36%, against 32% across Wales’s towns. Census day 2021: 2,017 residents and 932 households in Goodwick. Here, nearly a quarter of households have dependent children. Households in terraced houses are more common here than in 86% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Goodwick’s people
A Welsh-speaking village
543 residents, 28% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh in 2021, more than in 81% of Welsh towns. Welsh language ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Older than 75% of UK towns: half of Goodwick is over 48.1
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 12%. The largest age band is 55–59: nearly one in ten residents. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 68% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 57% of UK towns: 4.7%
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for just over a quarter of Goodwick’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 30%, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. The benchmark for full-time students across Wales’s towns: 8%. Locally, 8.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Goodwick households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 86% 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.
Goodwick sits close to the norm on shared households of unrelated adults: 2.7%, about the same as across Wales’s towns.
Goodwick ranks below 76% of UK towns on households in flats: 6.4%
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
In Goodwick, 27% of households live in a detached house, beside 24% across Wales’s towns. 14% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 56% of UK towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 75% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Where nearly a quarter of those born abroad across Wales’s towns arrived in 2017 or later, here the share is 13%. Residents born outside the UK are more common here than in half of UK towns. By way of comparison, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (4%) or in Africa (0.9%).
Welsh speakers: 28% of Goodwick’s residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
28% of residents aged 3 and over, 543 people, said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, more than in 81% of Welsh towns (Welsh towns: 16%). The highest share in Dyfed belongs to Tumble (62%).
45% of residents describe themselves as Christian, below 76% 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: 94% of Goodwick · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (4.1%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and Indian (0.4%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 94%, more than in 66% of UK towns. The usual figure: 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns. There is little gap on residents with no religion: 47%, about the same as across Wales’s towns.
Above 94% of UK towns: 12% of residents give unpaid care
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
73 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are common here: 35%, more than in two thirds of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, 10% of residents give unpaid care. Goodwick sits close to the norm on married adults and civil partners: 43%, about the same as across Wales’s towns.
Qualified to degree level: 30% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across Wales’s towns, 20% of adults have no qualification; in Goodwick, 20%, while 30% hold one at degree level (31%).
The places around Goodwick
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodwick | 2,017 | — | 48.1 | 24% | 23% |
| Fishguard | 3,422 | 1.2 mi | 52.4 | 32% | 20% |
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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 Goodwick’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 Goodwick’s residents
What is the population of Goodwick?
The 2021 Census counted 2,017 people in Goodwick’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Goodwick?
The median age was 48.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Goodwick?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 6.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Goodwick?
47% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 6% didn’t answer.
Is Goodwick good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Goodwick’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Goodwick?
543 residents aged 3 and over, 28%, 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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