Photo: Nigel Davies · CC BY-SA 2.03% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Set against 24% across Wales’s towns, nearly three in five households live in a detached house in Saron. The village is home to 909 residents in 399 households, by the 2021 Census. For Saron, the census puts adults who have never married at 26%. The median age here is 49.3, higher than in 82% of UK towns.
Saron ranks above 83% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 28%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
60–64 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Wales’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 9.4%. For comparison, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 93% of UK towns: 6.5%
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%.
Across Wales’s towns, 29% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine work; in Saron, 33% and 24%. For comparison, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Wales’s towns. Census figures put full-time students at 4.7% in the village.
A lower share of one-person households than 75% of UK towns, at 27%
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.
25% of households have dependent children, against 27% across Wales’s towns. The comparison figure for one-person households is 32% across Wales’s towns. On average, 2.3 people share a household. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 54% of UK towns.
Fewer car-free households than 86% of UK towns: 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
Flats are home to 7% of households, against 14% across Wales’s towns. Add to that, every 11th household or so has no car or van.
Residents born outside the UK: 2.8%, a lower share than 94% 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
Across Wales’s towns, 96% of residents have English as their main language; in Saron, 99%. Against that, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.9%) and in Africa (0.8%).
Saron: 47% of residents speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Asked in 2021, 413 residents aged 3 and over, 47%, said they can speak Welsh; across Welsh towns, 16%: more than in 89% of Welsh towns. Tumble leads Dyfed with 62%.
More residents who describe themselves as White British than 83% of UK towns: 96%
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 Saron · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 36% here and 47% across Wales’s towns. At 55%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is higher than in 82% of UK towns. To put it in context, nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns. Next after White British come Other White (2%), Mixed or multiple (2%) and Arab (0.3%).
Married adults and civil partners: 53%, a higher share than 82% of UK towns
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
The share of unpaid carers is 12%, against 10% across Wales’s towns. For comparison, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 35.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 36% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 36% of adults in Saron, 31% across Wales’s towns; 17% have no qualification, against 20%.
Of the 7 towns nearest Saron, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saron | 909 | — | 49.3 | 28% | 25% |
| Penybanc | 1,165 | 0.8 mi | 51.3 | 31% | 25% |
| Capel Hendre | 1,143 | 1.1 mi | 47.9 | 26% | 28% |
| Tycroes | 2,480 | 1.1 mi | 46.4 | 25% | 27% |
| Ammanford | 8,282 | 1.8 mi | 44.7 | 24% | 27% |
| Llandybie | 2,563 | 1.9 mi | 47.2 | 27% | 29% |
| Cross Hands and Pen-y-groes | 6,339 | 2.3 mi | 42.7 | 21% | 29% |
| Tumble | 4,040 | 4.1 mi | 45.5 | 24% | 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 Saron’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 Saron’s residents
What is the population of Saron?
The 2021 Census counted 909 people in Saron’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Saron?
The median age was 49.3 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Saron?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 2.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Saron?
36% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.2% didn’t answer.
Is Saron good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Saron’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Saron?
413 residents aged 3 and over, 47%, 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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