Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0Tavernspite is older than 94% of UK towns: a median age of 52.9
Households in detached houses: 83% here and 24% across Wales’s towns. 3.5% of households live in a terraced house. Lower than in 99% of UK towns: 0.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. The 2021 Census put Tavernspite’s population at 334, in 145 households.
Residents aged 65 and over: 29%, a higher share than 88% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 10%, above 72% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Tavernspite ranks below 99% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 2.1%
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%.
By class, 27% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 26% in routine and semi-routine work (Wales’s towns: 29% and 27%). Across Wales’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 9.1%. In Tavernspite, 7.4% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
27% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 74% 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.
25% of households have dependent children (Wales’s towns: 27%). There are 2.3 people in the average household. On average, nearly a third of households are one person living alone across Wales’s towns.
8.4% of households have no car or van, below 90% 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
Across Wales’s towns, the share of households in flats is 14%; Tavernspite has 4.9%. One household in 12 has no car or van.
1.5% born outside the UK, fewer than in 99% 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
96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns, against 99% in Tavernspite. Measured more widely, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (0.6%) and in Africa (0.6%).
Welsh speakers make up 17% of Tavernspite
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
At the 2021 Census, 56 residents aged 3 and over, 17%, said they can speak Welsh, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 69% of Welsh towns. No town in Dyfed beats Tumble (62%).
Tavernspite ranks above 94% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as White British: 97%
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: 97% of Tavernspite · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Here 38% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 47%. On residents who describe themselves as Christian, Tavernspite sits higher than 75% of UK towns: 54%. As a yardstick, nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns. Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (1.2%), Chinese (0.9%) and Indian (0.6%).
Unpaid carers: 8.3%, a lower share than 78% 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
Across Wales’s towns, the share of adults who have never married is 38%; Tavernspite has 34%. The village has more married adults and civil partners than 63% of UK towns, at 50%. To put it in context, 10% of residents give unpaid care across Wales’s towns.
Qualified to degree level: 29% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 31% across Wales’s towns, 29% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 20% hold no qualification (20%). A levels are the highest qualification of 13%, many of them students still working towards a degree.
2 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Tavernspite
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
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Tavernspite’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 Tavernspite’s residents
What is the population of Tavernspite?
The 2021 Census counted 334 people in Tavernspite’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Tavernspite?
The median age was 52.9 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tavernspite?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 1.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Tavernspite?
38% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.5% didn’t answer.
Is Tavernspite good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Tavernspite’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Tavernspite?
56 residents aged 3 and over, 17%, 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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