Church of Saint Ilar · Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0In Llanilar, 1% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
6.9% of households have no car or van, against 21% across Wales’s towns. The 2021 Census counted 730 residents in 301 households. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British stands at 97%. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 53%, more than in just over four fifths of UK towns.
26% of Llanilar is 65 or over, a higher share than 76% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 12%; Llanilar has 9.4%. To put it in context, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns. No age band is larger than 55–59: 7.6% of residents. With a median age of 46.6, Llanilar is older than 66% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Llanilar sits above 86% of UK towns for full-time students (6.2%)
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 third of Llanilar’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 19%, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. Measured more widely, 8% of adults are full-time students across Wales’s towns. Locally, 9.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
One-person households: 28%, a lower share than 67% 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.
Households average 2.3 people, against 2.3 across Wales’s towns. As a yardstick, 32% of households are one person living alone across Wales’s towns. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 3.3%. More households with dependent children than in 53% of UK towns: 28%.
Llanilar sits below 91% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (9.3%)
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
Where nearly a quarter of households live in a detached house across Wales’s towns, Llanilar has 45%. The wider picture: 29% of households live in a terraced house across Wales’s towns.
Llanilar: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 88% 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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (1.8%), then in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%). The benchmark for residents whose main language is English across Wales’s towns: 96%. 4.1% of residents were born outside the UK, a lower share than in 76% of UK towns.
59% of Llanilar’s residents say they can speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
The 2021 Census found 424 Welsh speakers aged 3 and over, 59% of that age group, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 94% of them. Tumble leads Dyfed with 62%.
More residents with no religion than 71% of UK towns: 44%
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: 97% of Llanilar · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (1.6%), Caribbean (0.4%) and Bangladeshi (0.3%). On residents who describe themselves as Christian, Llanilar sits lower than 62% of UK towns: 48%. For residents with no religion, the comparison across Wales’s towns is 47%.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 68% of UK towns: 30%
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 care takes 50 hours a week or more for 22 people. To put it in context, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. 9.2% of residents give unpaid care, a lower share than in 54% of UK towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 36% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 36% of adults in Llanilar (Wales’s towns: 31%), and no qualification by 17% (Wales’s towns: 20%). A levels are as far as 17% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
Median age: 1 of the 5 towns around Llanilar are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llanilar | 730 | — | 46.6 | 26% | 28% |
| Llanbadarn Fawr | 1,766 | 3.8 mi | 40.3 | 20% | 22% |
| Aberystwyth | 14,646 | 4.3 mi | 25 | 14% | 19% |
| Penrhyn-coch | 1,378 | 6 mi | 42.3 | 20% | 29% |
| Bow Street | 1,101 | 6.1 mi | 45.3 | 23% | 26% |
| Borth | 1,115 | 9 mi | 52.2 | 29% | 18% |
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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 Llanilar’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 Llanilar’s residents
What is the population of Llanilar?
The 2021 Census counted 730 people in Llanilar’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Llanilar?
The median age was 46.6 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Llanilar?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 4.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Llanilar?
44% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 7.2% didn’t answer.
Is Llanilar good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Llanilar’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Llanilar?
424 residents aged 3 and over, 59%, 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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