Photo: Agathoclea · CC BY-SA 3.0Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 96% in Neyland, more than in 92% of UK towns
With households with dependent children at 24%, Neyland is behind 76% of UK towns on that count. In 2021, the Census found 3,250 residents in the town, living in 1,474 households. Locally, 6.6% of households live in a flat or apartment. On unpaid carers, Neyland sits higher than 95% of UK towns: 12%.
Neyland is older than 66% of UK towns: a median age of 46.7
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: nearly one in ten residents. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are common here: 24%, more than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. In Saundersfoot, the oldest of Dyfed’s towns by this measure, it is 39%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Neyland, 46.7. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
4.6% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 62% 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%.
Nearly a quarter of Neyland’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 34% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. Measured more widely, 8% of adults are full-time students across Wales’s towns. The census found that 7.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier here.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 78% 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.
Little separates the share of one-person households here, 32%, from the figure across Wales’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 60% of UK towns.
A smaller share of households in detached houses than 68% of UK towns: 22%
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 Neyland, 30% of households live in a terraced house, beside 29% across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, 24% of households live in a detached house. The share of households without a car or van stands at 15%.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 91% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Recent arrivals (2017 or later) make up nearly a tenth of those born abroad (Wales’s towns: 23%). On residents born outside the UK, Neyland sits lower than just over two thirds of UK towns: 4.7%. Set beside that, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.3%) and in Africa (0.8%).
7% of Neyland’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
7% of residents aged 3 and over, 222 people, said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, fewer than in 96% of Welsh towns (Welsh towns: 16%). Tumble leads Dyfed with 62%.
Residents with no religion: 49%, a higher share than 91% 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: 96% of Neyland · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (2%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and African (0.1%). Residents who describe themselves as Christian are rarer here than in 84% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 47%.
A smaller share of married adults and civil partners than 56% of UK towns: 47%
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 124 residents. Neyland has more adults who have never married than 53% of UK towns, at 33%. Married adults and civil partners make up 43% across Wales’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 25%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 25% of adults in Neyland (Wales’s towns: 31%), and no qualification by 21% (Wales’s towns: 20%).
Ranked by age, 253rd youngest of 514 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 20.6 in Keele to 63.1 in West Chiltington. Nearest to Neyland in age: Hadlow (46.7), Rockwell Green (46.7), Tutbury (46.8) and Stoke Mandeville (46.8).
No nearby town is as old as Neyland
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neyland | 3,250 | — | 46.7 | 24% | 24% |
| Pembroke Dock | 9,659 | 1.5 mi | 41.7 | 21% | 27% |
| Pembroke | 7,963 | 2.9 mi | 46.4 | 26% | 25% |
| Milford Haven | 14,251 | 3.6 mi | 42.2 | 22% | 27% |
| Johnston | 1,766 | 3.7 mi | 43.3 | 24% | 28% |
| Merlin's Bridge | 2,220 | 5.4 mi | 41.9 | 21% | 29% |
| Haverfordwest | 12,088 | 6.4 mi | 40.4 | 20% | 28% |
| Crundale | 1,065 | 7.9 mi | 45.1 | 25% | 26% |
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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 Neyland’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 Neyland’s residents
What is the population of Neyland?
The 2021 Census counted 3,250 people in Neyland’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Neyland?
The median age was 46.7 at the 2021 Census, older than 66% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Neyland?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 4.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Neyland?
49% said they had no religion and 43% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6.1% didn’t answer.
Is Neyland good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Neyland’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Neyland?
222 residents aged 3 and over, 7%, 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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