St Davids has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Its strongest subject is walkability (A+): 30% of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport. Its weakest is jobs & income (D): mean household income £46,179; 2.8% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. The median home sold for £325,000 in the last three years, 7.7 times what households in the Pembrokeshire council area earn in a year.
Dyfed Powys Police published 32 of the 36 months; rates are per year over the months published. This town's Health Grade uses ONS's small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for 2019 to 2023, and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. English towns' grades also use OHID's small-area early deaths, hospital admissions and child obesity, which OHID publishes for England only.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Wales), ordered by how far St Davids is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in St Davids.
Who lives here
An older town: 34% of people in St Davids are 65 or over, more than in Dyfed’s towns or Wales’s towns
7.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Children under 15 make up 12%, below Dyfed’s towns (16%) and Wales’s towns (17%) alike. Half of St Davids is older than 55.2, half younger. Graduates make up 38% of adults.
55.2median age
St DavidsDyfedWales
Ages · share of residents
34%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Qualifications · residents 16 and older
No qualifications16%
Apprenticeship6%
A levels or similar17%
Degree level38%
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
WomenWalesMen
About 90 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.
Welsh Government · schools list · Wales publishes no school-level results, so its schools have no letters.The Schools page →
History
A town of 116 listed buildings, 8 of them Grade I
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Homes from before 1919 make up 38% of the total. St Davids’s listed buildings include the Cathedral of St Davids, Grade I. Relative to its size, St Davids keeps 862 listed buildings per 10,000 residents, higher than both Dyfed’s towns (32) and Wales’s towns (18). At the top of the list, 8 are Grade I and 3 Grade II*.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Work & commuteJobs & income grade D
The car carries only 69% of commuters in St Davids, fewer than in Dyfed’s towns and Wales’s towns
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 28% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
There are 1.3 jobs in St Davids for each resident in work. Working mainly from home: 28% of workers, above Dyfed’s towns (20%) and Wales’s towns (24%) alike. Work in town: 39% of resident commuters.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
HousingCost of living grade C
St Davids gets a C for cost of living grade
Private renters make up 15% of households, below Dyfed’s towns (18%) and Wales’s towns (17%) alike. Half of the 61 standard sales inside St Davids’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 went for more than £325,000. 67% of households are owner-occupiers.
£325Kmedian sale
Median sale price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
St Davids£325K
Typical UK town£277K
By type
Median
Sales
Detached
£450,000
32
Semi-detached
£240,000
14
Terraced
£250,000
13
67%
of households own their home · Wales 65%
15%
rent privately · Wales 17%
£694
average private rent a month, Pembrokeshire council area
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Health
Just 5.6% of people in St Davids say their health is bad or very bad, fewer than in Dyfed’s towns and Wales’s towns
Asked at the census, 80% of residents of St Davids said they were in good or very good health. This Dyfed town has no GP practice of its own; the nearest is 2.8 miles away. Life expectancy here is 86.3 for women and 81.5 for men (2019–23). The nearest A&E to St Davids is Withybush General Hospital, 13.6 miles away.
80%good or very good healthB+Health Grade
General health, self-reported
Good or very good 80%Fair 14%Bad or very bad 6%
Census 2021
St Davids
Dyfed
Wales
Good or very good health
80%
77%
78%
Bad or very bad health
5.6%
7.4%
7.1%
Disabled (Equality Act)
22%
23%
22%
81.5
life expectancy at birth, men (2019–23)
86.3
life expectancy at birth, women
Welsh towns’ Health Grades use ONS’s small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for 2019 to 2023, and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. English towns’ also use OHID’s small-area early deaths, hospital admissions and child obesity, which OHID publishes for England only.
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Because the census answers ignore age, a younger population lifts them; that is why the Health Grade is built on age-adjusted measures like life expectancy.
Safety
Violence is recorded less often in St Davids than in Dyfed’s towns or across Wales’s towns: 18.1 per 1,000 residents a year
Burglary and damage came to 8.9 per 1,000 residents a year, below both Dyfed’s towns (11.2) and Wales’s towns (10.7). St Davids logged 50 reported offences in a year (to August 2026), plus 7 complaints of anti-social conduct. 42% of the crimes fell under violence and sexual offences.
18.1violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a yearBSafety Grade
Compared with UK towns its sizeLess crime per resident than 42% of the 1,541 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people: about the middle for its size. Context only, not part of the grade.
More crimeLess crime
Reports by type · Sep 2025 to Aug 2026
Violence & sexual21
Public order9
Damage & arson5
Shoplifting4
Other theft3
Burglary3
Drugs2
Vehicle crime1
Anti-social7
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
18.1
violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
8.9
burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 a year, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
3.9
anti-social behaviour reports per 1,000 (not graded)
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
Nearby attractions
St Davids Cathedral and 3 more in and around St Davids
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near St Davids. Best known first.
116 on Cadw’s list, 8 of them Grade I and 3 Grade II*. That is 35.4 times the typical UK town for its size. Its Grade I buildings include Cathedral of St Davids. It also has 9 scheduled monuments.
Does St Davids flood?
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
About St Davids
Village in Dyfed, Wales
St Davids is a built-up area of 1,345 people, in the Pembrokeshire council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Population
1,345 (Census 2021)
Council
Pembrokeshire
County
Dyfed
Region
Wales
Area
0.3 sq mi (0.8 km²)
ONS code
W45000293
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
