Photo: Alan Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0Keeston is older than 99% of UK towns: a median age of 59.2
Households without a car or van: 4.7% here and 21% across Wales’s towns. In Keeston, a fifth of households are one person living alone. Higher than in 92% of UK towns: 59% of residents describe themselves as Christian. The village is home to 284 residents in 122 households, by the 2021 Census.
36% of Keeston is 65 or over, a higher share than 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
70–74 is the most common age band: 14% of residents, 2.6 times the share across Wales’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 6%. As a yardstick, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 82 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 Keeston, 2.7% of adults are full-time students, fewer 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%.
In Keeston, 44% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. Full-time students make up 8% across Wales’s towns. The census found that one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier locally.
Fewer family households than 99% of UK towns: 14% in Keeston
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 Keeston, 2.3. Households with dependent children: 27% across Wales’s towns, for comparison. Shared households of unrelated adults: 0.8% of the total.
Keeston sits above 99% of UK towns for households in detached houses (91%)
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
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 95% of UK towns, at 99%
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.4%). Few places have so few residents born outside the UK: 5% here, fewer than in 65% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 96%.
Keeston: 13% of residents speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Against 16% across Welsh towns, 13% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Welsh here (38 people): more than in 62% of Welsh towns. No town in Dyfed beats Tumble (62%).
33% of residents said they have no religion, below 87% 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: 91% of Keeston · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Mixed or multiple (3.9%), Other White (3.5%) and Chinese (0.4%). Just over nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British, fewer than in 58% of UK towns. Typically, 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns, at 64%
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
11 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Few places have so few adults who have never married: 20% here, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Wales’s towns: 10%.
44% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Keeston’s adults: 44% with a degree-level qualification and 14% with none, against 31% and 20% across Wales’s towns.
The towns around Keeston are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keeston | 284 | — | 59.2 | 36% | 14% |
| Haverfordwest | 12,088 | 3.7 mi | 40.4 | 20% | 28% |
| Crundale | 1,065 | 4.2 mi | 45.1 | 25% | 26% |
| Merlin's Bridge | 2,220 | 4.5 mi | 41.9 | 21% | 29% |
| Johnston | 1,766 | 5.7 mi | 43.3 | 24% | 28% |
| Milford Haven | 14,251 | 8.1 mi | 42.2 | 22% | 27% |
| Neyland | 3,250 | 9.4 mi | 46.7 | 24% | 24% |
| St Davids | 1,345 | 9.8 mi | 55.2 | 34% | 16% |
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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 Keeston’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 Keeston’s residents
What is the population of Keeston?
The 2021 Census counted 284 people in Keeston’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Keeston?
The median age was 59.2 at the 2021 Census. 6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 36% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Keeston?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Keeston?
33% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.8% didn’t answer.
Is Keeston good for families?
14% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Keeston’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Keeston?
38 residents aged 3 and over, 13%, 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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