Photo: Alan Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0A Welsh-speaking village: 45% of Tycroes’s residents speak Welsh
In Tycroes, nearly one in ten households live in a terraced house, beside 29% across Wales’s towns. Households in flats are rarer here than in 94% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 2,480 residents and 1,103 households locally. Residents who describe themselves as White British account for 95%.
What the Census says about Tycroes’s people
A Welsh-speaking village
1,075 residents, 45% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh in 2021, more than in 89% of Welsh towns. Welsh language ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
25% of Tycroes is 65 or over, a higher share than 70% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Half of Tycroes’s residents are over 46.4, older than in 64% of UK towns. Typically, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns. For Tycroes, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 9.4%. In Saundersfoot, the oldest of Dyfed’s towns by this measure, it is 39%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students make up 5.3% in Tycroes, more than in 70% 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%.
In Tycroes, 30% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, the share of full-time students is 8%. For Tycroes, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 7.5%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Tycroes ranks below 71% of UK towns on one-person households: 27%
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.
The average household has 2.3 people, against 2.3 across Wales’s towns. In Tycroes, 2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Fewer households with dependent children than in 56% of UK towns: 27%. As a reference point, 32% of households are one person living alone across Wales’s towns.
Fewer car-free households than 80% of UK towns: 10%
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
Just over two in five households live in a detached house, against 24% across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 21%.
Residents born outside the UK: 4.4%, a lower share than 72% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Arrivals from 2017 on account for 13% of residents born abroad, beside 23% across Wales’s towns. Set beside that, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). Compared with other places, residents whose main language is English are common here: 98%, more than in 57% of UK towns.
45% of people in Tycroes speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Welsh speakers number 1,075, or 45% of residents aged 3 and over, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 89% of them. Within Dyfed, Tumble has the largest share, 62%.
45% describe themselves as Christian, fewer than in 76% 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: 95% of Tycroes · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Other White (1.9%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Indian (0.4%). Compared with other places, residents with no religion are common here: 46%, more than in just over four fifths of UK towns. Typically, 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns.
12% of residents give unpaid care, a share 94% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Compared with 38% across Wales’s towns, 30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here. The usual figure: one in ten residents give unpaid care across Wales’s towns. Across Tycroes, 51% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
Among adults, 31% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 31% of adults in Tycroes, 31% across Wales’s towns; 17% have no qualification, against 20%.
Tycroes sits below 3 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tycroes | 2,480 | — | 46.4 | 25% | 27% |
| Penybanc | 1,165 | 1.1 mi | 51.3 | 31% | 25% |
| Capel Hendre | 1,143 | 1.3 mi | 47.9 | 26% | 28% |
| Ammanford | 8,282 | 1.8 mi | 44.7 | 24% | 27% |
| Llandybie | 2,563 | 2.8 mi | 47.2 | 27% | 29% |
| Cross Hands and Pen-y-groes | 6,339 | 3 mi | 42.7 | 21% | 29% |
| Pontarddulais | 6,513 | 4.4 mi | 41.8 | 19% | 30% |
| Tumble | 4,040 | 4.5 mi | 45.5 | 24% | 26% |
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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 Tycroes’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 Tycroes’s residents
What is the population of Tycroes?
The 2021 Census counted 2,480 people in Tycroes’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Tycroes?
The median age was 46.4 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tycroes?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 4.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Tycroes?
46% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Tycroes good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Tycroes’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Tycroes?
1,075 residents aged 3 and over, 45%, 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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