Photo: Garth Newton · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 56: Lamphey is older than 97% of UK towns
0.3% of households live in a flat or apartment; across Wales’s towns the figure is 14%. Compared with other places, households with dependent children are scarce here: 20%, fewer than in 95% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put Lamphey’s population at 644, in 302 households. Locally, 58% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
36% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Wales’s towns, Lamphey has 6.2%. Elsewhere, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 2.7%, a lower share than 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%.
8% of residents lived at another address a year before the Census, against 9.1% across Wales’s towns. By class, 37% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 18% in routine and semi-routine work (Wales’s towns: 29% and 27%).
2.2 people per household, fewer than in 83% 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.
Across Wales’s towns, the share of one-person households is 32%; Lamphey has 31%. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 2.3%.
More households in detached houses than 98% of UK towns: 65%
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
By its share of households in terraced houses (7.1%), Lamphey is below 95% of UK towns. One household in every 11 has no car or van. Set beside that, nearly a quarter of households live in a detached house across Wales’s towns.
Lamphey sits above 99% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (100%)
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
3.7% of residents were born outside the UK (Wales’s towns: 7.4%). Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.2%), then in the rest of Europe (0.5%). The comparison figure for residents whose main language is English is 96% across Wales’s towns.
Welsh, spoken by 11% of Lamphey’s residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Across Welsh towns, 16% of residents can speak Welsh; here 69 people, 11% of those aged 3 and over, said they can: fewer than in 57% of Welsh towns. Top of Dyfed: Tumble, at 62%.
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 95%, a higher share than 72% 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 Lamphey · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (3.3%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Bangladeshi (0.3%). The wider picture: nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns. At 53%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is higher than in 71% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, 47% of residents said they have no religion; in Lamphey, 40%.
Lamphey sits below 97% of UK towns for adults who have never married (23%)
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
Unpaid carers make up 12%, against 10% across Wales’s towns. For comparison, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 39% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 39% of adults in Lamphey, 31% across Wales’s towns; 17% have no qualification, against 20%.
Around Lamphey, 1 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamphey | 644 | — | 56 | 36% | 20% |
| Pembroke | 7,963 | 2.1 mi | 46.4 | 26% | 25% |
| Pembroke Dock | 9,659 | 3.5 mi | 41.7 | 21% | 27% |
| Neyland | 3,250 | 4.7 mi | 46.7 | 24% | 24% |
| Tenby | 4,092 | 6.9 mi | 52.4 | 30% | 20% |
| Wooden | 1,300 | 7.1 mi | 51.9 | 31% | 21% |
| Saundersfoot | 2,515 | 7.8 mi | 58.7 | 39% | 16% |
| Milford Haven | 14,251 | 7.9 mi | 42.2 | 22% | 27% |
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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 Lamphey’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 Lamphey’s residents
What is the population of Lamphey?
The 2021 Census counted 644 people in Lamphey’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Lamphey?
The median age was 56 at the 2021 Census. 6.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 36% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Lamphey?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Lamphey?
40% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Lamphey good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Lamphey’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Lamphey?
69 residents aged 3 and over, 11%, 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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