Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0St Dogmaels is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 55.7
Across Wales’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 24%; St Dogmaels has 43%. 1,013 residents in 523 households: that is St Dogmaels at the 2021 Census. Census figures put households with dependent children at 19% locally. Households in flats are rarer here than in 78% of UK towns.
What the Census says about St Dogmaels’s people
A Welsh-speaking village
416 residents, 42% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh in 2021, more than in 88% of Welsh towns. Welsh language ↓
Older than most towns
Half of St Dogmaels’s residents are under 55.7 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 33% 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).
33% of residents are 65 or over, a share 95% of UK towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
7.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across Wales’s towns. Against that, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 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.
Full-time students: 4.7%, a lower share than 57% 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%.
Across Wales’s towns, 29% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine or semi-routine work; St Dogmaels has 33% and 23%. In St Dogmaels, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. The share of full-time students across Wales’s towns is 8%.
42% of households are one person living alone, more than in 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.
Households in St Dogmaels hold 2 people on average (Wales’s towns: 2.3). The benchmark for one-person households across Wales’s towns: 32%. In St Dogmaels, 2.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Only 14% of households have no car or van in St Dogmaels
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
Households in terraced houses: a fifth of the total. To put it in context, just over a fifth of households have no car or van across Wales’s towns.
St Dogmaels: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 87% 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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.9%) and in Africa (1.2%). Typically, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. Residents born outside the UK are more common here than in half of UK towns.
42% of people in St Dogmaels speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
The 2021 Census found 416 Welsh speakers aged 3 and over, 42% of that age group, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 88% of them. No town in Dyfed beats Tumble (62%).
St Dogmaels sits above 82% of UK towns for residents with no religion (46%)
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 St Dogmaels · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
93% of residents describe themselves as White British (Wales’s towns: 90%). As a yardstick, 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns. The census found that 44% of residents describe themselves as Christian in St Dogmaels.
Married adults and civil partners make up 45% in St Dogmaels, less than in 71% 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
Adults who have never married: 31%, below 62% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. 19 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. On unpaid carers, St Dogmaels sits higher than 54% of UK towns: 9.5%.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 41%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 41% of St Dogmaels’s adults, against 31% across Wales’s towns; 14% have no qualification (20%).
St Dogmaels is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Dogmaels | 1,013 | — | 55.7 | 33% | 19% |
| Cardigan | 3,767 | 1.1 mi | 47 | 27% | 23% |
| Aberporth | 1,075 | 6.9 mi | 54.9 | 35% | 20% |
| Newcastle Emlyn | 1,842 | 9.5 mi | 49.8 | 29% | 23% |
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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 Dogmaels’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 Dogmaels’s residents
What is the population of St Dogmaels?
The 2021 Census counted 1,013 people in St Dogmaels’s built-up area.
What is the average age in St Dogmaels?
The median age was 55.7 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is St Dogmaels?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 6.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in St Dogmaels?
46% said they had no religion and 44% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 6.4% didn’t answer.
Is St Dogmaels good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on St Dogmaels’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in St Dogmaels?
416 residents aged 3 and over, 42%, 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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