Photo: Angella Streluk · CC BY-SA 2.0Pontrhydfendigaid is older than 96% of UK towns: a median age of 54.2
Shared households of unrelated adults: 0.7% here and 3.1% across Wales’s towns. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Pontrhydfendigaid is home to 312 residents in 154 households, by the 2021 Census. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British stands at 97%.
31% of residents are 65 or over, a share 92% of UK towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 11% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Wales’s towns. Across Pontrhydfendigaid, 9% of residents are aged 15 to 24. The usual figure: 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 84 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.
3.6% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 93% 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%.
Here 7.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 9.1%. Across Wales’s towns, full-time students come to 8%.
In Pontrhydfendigaid, 19% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 96% 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.
At 2 people, the average household compares with 2.3 across Wales’s towns. Pontrhydfendigaid has more one-person households than 84% of UK towns, at 34%. The wider picture: 27% of households have dependent children across Wales’s towns.
37% of households live in a terraced house, more than in 92% 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
Nearly a third of households live in a detached house, against 24% across Wales’s towns. The benchmark for households in terraced houses across Wales’s towns: 29%. Here, 14% of households have no car or van.
More residents whose main language is English than 88% of UK towns: 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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Middle East and Asia (1.6%) and in EU countries (1.3%). On residents born outside the UK, Pontrhydfendigaid sits lower than 71% of UK towns: 4.5%. Across the comparison, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns.
A Welsh-speaking share of 51% in Pontrhydfendigaid
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Some 155 people here aged 3 and over said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, 51% of the total, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 92% of them. In Dyfed, Tumble has the highest share (62%).
45% of residents said they have no religion, a share 75% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Pontrhydfendigaid · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
There is little gap on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 43%, about the same as across Wales’s towns. Against that, 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns.
A higher share of unpaid carers than 98% of UK towns, at 12%
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
By its share of adults who have never married (37%), Pontrhydfendigaid is above 79% of UK towns. The village has fewer married adults and civil partners than 80% of UK towns, at 43%. Against that, one in ten residents give unpaid care across Wales’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 28% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 28% of Pontrhydfendigaid’s adults, against 31% across Wales’s towns; 20% have no qualification (20%).
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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 Pontrhydfendigaid’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 Pontrhydfendigaid’s residents
What is the population of Pontrhydfendigaid?
The 2021 Census counted 312 people in Pontrhydfendigaid’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pontrhydfendigaid?
The median age was 54.2 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pontrhydfendigaid?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 4.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Pontrhydfendigaid?
45% said they had no religion and 43% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 11% didn’t answer.
Is Pontrhydfendigaid good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Pontrhydfendigaid’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Pontrhydfendigaid?
155 residents aged 3 and over, 51%, 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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