Photo: Rollercow · CC BY-SA 3.0Saundersfoot is older than 99% of UK towns: a median age of 58.7
Against a figure of 29% across Wales’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses in Saundersfoot comes in at 6.5%. In 2021, the Census found 2,515 residents here, living in 1,224 households. The census found that 58% of households live in a detached house in the town. On adults who have never married, Saundersfoot sits lower than 97% of UK towns: 23%.
What the Census says about Saundersfoot’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Saundersfoot’s residents are under 58.7 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 39% are 65 or over, against 21% across Wales’s towns. Ages ↓
Fewer people than in 2011
ONS mid-year estimates put Saundersfoot at 2,600 in 2011 and 2,300 in 2024, down 13%, against 4% for Wales: slower growth than in 99% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Slower growth than 99% of UK towns: Saundersfoot changed by −13% since 2011
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Saundersfoot’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 2,600 people in 2011; 2,300 in 2024.
Growth was strongest among the 65 and over (+6%) and weakest among the 0 to 15 (−39%).
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 99% of UK towns, at 39%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: one in ten residents, 1.9 times the share across Wales’s towns. The usual figure: 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns. For Saundersfoot, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 7.2%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Saundersfoot, 58.7. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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% of adults are full-time students, below 99% 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%.
Just over a third of Saundersfoot’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 22% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who moved in within the year are scarce here: 8.2%, fewer than in nearly three fifths of UK towns. Typically, 8% of adults are full-time students across Wales’s towns.
16% of households have dependent children, below 99% 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.
Across Wales’s towns, 32% of households are one person living alone; in Saundersfoot, 36%. Elsewhere, 27% of households have dependent children across Wales’s towns. On average, 2 people share a household. Higher than in two thirds of UK towns: 2.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Households without a car or van make up 13% in Saundersfoot, less than in 63% 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
On households in flats, 14% here is much the same as across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 21%.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 62% of UK towns: 98%
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
Saundersfoot sits close to the norm on residents born outside the UK: 7.3%, about the same as across Wales’s towns. To put it in context, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.7%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.8%).
11% of people in Saundersfoot speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
11% of residents aged 3 and over, 267 people, said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, fewer than in 62% of Welsh towns (Welsh towns: 16%). Within Dyfed, Tumble has the largest share, 62%.
In Saundersfoot, 56% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 86% 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: 93% of Saundersfoot · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 90% across Wales’s towns, 93% of residents describe themselves as White British here. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 43% across Wales’s towns, for comparison. The census found that 36% of residents said they have no religion in Saundersfoot.
Saundersfoot: 52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 75% 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
94 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Measured more widely, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Compared with other places, unpaid carers are common here: 11%, more than in 89% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 34% 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 Saundersfoot, 34%, and 20% have none, against 20%.
Of 219 UK towns its size (2,500 to 3,000 people), the 4th oldest
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 60.8 in St Mary's Bay. Nearest to Saundersfoot in age: Settle (58.2), Mundesley (58.7), Snettisham (59.1) and Pevensey Bay (59.1).
No nearby town is as old as Saundersfoot
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 Saundersfoot’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Saundersfoot’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 2,354 people in 2021, against 2,515 in the built-up area.
- 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 Saundersfoot’s residents
What is the population of Saundersfoot?
The 2021 Census counted 2,515 people in Saundersfoot’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 2,300 people in mid-2024, 13% fewer than in 2011.
What is the average age in Saundersfoot?
The median age was 58.7 at the 2021 Census, older than 99% of UK towns. 7.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 39% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Saundersfoot?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 7.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Saundersfoot?
36% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Saundersfoot good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Saundersfoot’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Saundersfoot?
267 residents aged 3 and over, 11%, 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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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