Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0Half of New Quay is over 58.5, older than 99% of UK towns
27% of households have dependent children across Wales’s towns, against 13% in New Quay. Census figures put residents who describe themselves as White British at 97% in the village. Compared with other places, households in detached houses are common here: 52%, more than in 91% of UK towns. Its 512 households held 1,046 residents at the 2021 Census.
What the Census says about New Quay’s people
Older than most towns
Half of New Quay’s residents are under 58.5 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 37% are 65 or over, against 21% across Wales’s towns. Ages ↓
A Welsh-speaking village
367 residents, 36% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh in 2021, more than in 84% of Welsh towns. Welsh language ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
New Quay ranks above 98% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 37%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 60–64: 11% of residents, 1.7 times the share across Wales’s towns. Elsewhere, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns. In New Quay, 7.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
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.
Full-time students make up 3.3% in New Quay, less than in 96% 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%.
12% of residents lived at another address a year earlier; across Wales’s towns the figure is 9.1%. The share of full-time students across Wales’s towns is 8%.
2 people per household, fewer than in 97% 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.
Where 32% of households are one person living alone across Wales’s towns, New Quay has 36%. The census found that 3.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in the village.
Households in flats make up 7.2% in New Quay, less than in 71% of UK towns
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 21% of households have no car or van across Wales’s towns, New Quay has 12%. Across Wales’s towns, the share of households in flats is 14%. In New Quay, a fifth of households live in a terraced house.
3.9% of residents were born outside the UK, below 79% 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
99% of residents have English as their main language (Wales’s towns: 96%). The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 7.4% across Wales’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.8%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1%).
36% of residents speak Welsh in New Quay
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Against 16% across Welsh towns, 36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Welsh here (367 people): more than in 84% of Welsh towns. Top of Dyfed: Tumble, at 62%.
New Quay sits above 65% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as Christian (52%)
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 New Quay · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (2%), Mixed or multiple (0.3%) and Indian (0.2%). At 41%, the share of residents with no religion is higher than in 52% of UK towns. The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns is 43%.
A larger share of unpaid carers than 99% of UK towns: 13%
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
For 36 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Unpaid carers: 10% across Wales’s towns, for comparison. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 87% of UK towns. 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns, against 51% in New Quay.
A degree-level qualification for 33% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across Wales’s towns, 31% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in New Quay, 33%, and 18% have none, against 20%.
The towns around New Quay are all younger
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 New Quay’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 New Quay’s residents
What is the population of New Quay?
The 2021 Census counted 1,046 people in New Quay’s built-up area.
What is the average age in New Quay?
The median age was 58.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 37% were 65 or over.
How diverse is New Quay?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 3.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in New Quay?
41% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is New Quay good for families?
13% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on New Quay’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in New Quay?
367 residents aged 3 and over, 36%, 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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