Photo: Philip Pankhurst · CC BY-SA 2.0St Davids is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 55.2
Where nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns, St Davids has 96%. At the 2021 Census St Davids was home to 1,345 people in 665 households. Across St Davids, 41% of households are one person living alone. The village has more households in detached houses than 67% of UK towns, at 35%.
What the Census says about St Davids’s people
Older than most towns
Half of St Davids’s residents are under 55.2 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 34% are 65 or over, against 21% across Wales’s towns. Ages ↓
A Welsh-speaking village
322 residents, 24% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh in 2021, more than in 78% of Welsh towns. Welsh language ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
In St Davids, 34% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 96% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
7.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24; across Wales’s towns the figure is 12%. Across Wales’s towns, 21% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
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.
Only 3.2% of adults are full-time students in St Davids
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%.
The share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%, against 9.1% across Wales’s towns. Full-time students make up 8% across Wales’s towns.
Fewer households with dependent children than 99% of UK towns: 16%
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.
In St Davids the average household is 2 people, beside 2.3 across Wales’s towns. 3.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, more than in 88% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 27% of households have dependent children across Wales’s towns.
Below 64% of UK towns: 8.4% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Where 21% of households have no car or van across Wales’s towns, St Davids has 19%. Few places have as many households in terraced houses: 22% here, more than in 56% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, households in flats come to 14%.
Above 96% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.5%) and in Africa (1.3%). St Davids has fewer residents born outside the UK than 65% of UK towns, at 4.9%.
A Welsh-speaking share of 24% in St Davids
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Asked in 2021, 322 residents aged 3 and over, 24%, said they can speak Welsh; across Welsh towns, 16%: more than in 78% of Welsh towns. The highest share in Dyfed belongs to Tumble (62%).
In St Davids, 34% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 85% 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: 96% of St Davids · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (3.1%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Pakistani (0.1%). As a yardstick, 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns. Few places have as many residents who describe themselves as Christian: 56% here, more than in just over four fifths of UK towns.
St Davids sits below 63% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (46%)
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
On unpaid carers, 10% here is much the same as across Wales’s towns. 30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, a lower share than in 63% of UK towns. The comparison figure for married adults and civil partners is 43% across Wales’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 38% of adults in St Davids, 31% across Wales’s towns; 16% have no qualification, against 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 St Davids’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 St Davids’s residents
What is the population of St Davids?
The 2021 Census counted 1,345 people in St Davids’s built-up area.
What is the average age in St Davids?
The median age was 55.2 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is St Davids?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 4.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in St Davids?
34% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 9.1% didn’t answer.
Is St Davids good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on St Davids’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in St Davids?
322 residents aged 3 and over, 24%, 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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