Photo: David Lewis · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Pwll is over 51.9, older than 92% of UK towns
Against a figure of 90% across Wales’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British in Pwll comes in at 97%. Households with dependent children: 20% of the total. Just over one in ten residents give unpaid care, more than in 94% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 1,305 residents and 603 households in the village.
What the Census says about Pwll’s people
A Welsh-speaking village
380 residents, 30% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh in 2021, more than in 82% of Welsh towns. Welsh language ↓
Older than most towns
Half of Pwll’s residents are under 51.9 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 29% are 65 or over, against 21% across Wales’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Above 88% of UK towns: 29% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 9.3%, against 12% across Wales’s towns. As a yardstick, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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.
6.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 95% 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%.
With full-time students at 4.3%, Pwll is behind 73% of UK towns on that count. On average, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Wales’s towns.
Pwll households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 84% 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.
1.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across Wales’s towns the figure is 3.1%. One-person households account for 31%.
Fewer flats than 97% of UK towns: 1.8% of households
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
Against a figure of 24% across Wales’s towns, the share of households in detached houses in Pwll comes in at 32%. As a yardstick, 14% of households live in a flat or apartment across Wales’s towns. Households in terraced houses: 18% of the total. The village has more households without a car or van than half of UK towns, at 15%.
Fewer residents born abroad than 97% of UK towns: 2.4%
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
Across Wales’s towns, 96% of residents have English as their main language; in Pwll, 100%. For comparison, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.3%) and in the rest of Europe (0.4%).
30% of residents speak Welsh in Pwll
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
The 2021 Census found 380 Welsh speakers aged 3 and over, 30% of that age group, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 82% of them. Top of Dyfed: Tumble, at 62%.
Pwll ranks above 66% of UK towns on residents with no religion: 43%
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 Pwll · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are common here: 50%, more than in 52% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, residents with no religion come to 47%.
Fewer adults who have never married than 67% 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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 55 residents. The share of adults who have never married across Wales’s towns is 38%. In Pwll, 48% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, beside 43% across Wales’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 31% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 31% of its adults qualified to degree level, Pwll compares with 31% across Wales’s towns; another 19% hold no qualification (20%).
A younger town than 1 of the 7 around it: Pwll
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 Pwll’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 Pwll’s residents
What is the population of Pwll?
The 2021 Census counted 1,305 people in Pwll’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pwll?
The median age was 51.9 at the 2021 Census. 9.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pwll?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 2.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Pwll?
43% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Pwll good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Pwll’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Pwll?
380 residents aged 3 and over, 30%, 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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