Photo: Alan Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of UK towns: half of Whitehill is over 58.2
Across Wales’s towns, 29% of households live in a terraced house; in Whitehill, 2.2%. Fewer households with dependent children than in 95% of UK towns: 20%. In 2021, the Census found 300 residents in the village, living in 138 households. For Whitehill, the census puts residents who describe themselves as Christian at 64%.
Whitehill: 35% of residents are 65 or over, above 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
6.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (Wales’s towns: 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.
Full-time students make up 3.5% in Whitehill, less than in 95% 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%.
6.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier (Wales’s towns: 9.1%). Elsewhere, 8% of adults are full-time students across Wales’s towns.
2.2 people per household, fewer than in 83% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 60% of UK towns. Across Whitehill, 30% of households are one person living alone.
Below 99% of UK towns: 0.7% 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
Across Wales’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 21%; Whitehill has 9.5%. To put it in context, 14% of households live in a flat or apartment across Wales’s towns. On the census count, 74% of households live in a detached house.
Residents born outside the UK: 3.7%, a lower share than 82% 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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (1.3%), then in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%). By way of comparison, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns. 99% of residents have English as their main language, a higher share than in 76% of UK towns.
Welsh speakers make up 9.8% of Whitehill
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Welsh speakers number 29, or 9.8% of residents aged 3 and over, against 16% across Welsh towns: fewer than in 71% of them. Within Dyfed, Tumble has the largest share, 62%.
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 98%, a higher share than 99% 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: 98% of Whitehill · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 31%, against 47% across Wales’s towns. Set beside that, 90% of residents describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns.
More unpaid carers than 99% of UK towns: 13% of residents
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
In Whitehill, 59% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, beside 43% across Wales’s towns. For unpaid carers, the comparison across Wales’s towns is 10%. Census figures put adults who have never married at 21% in the village.
Degree-level qualifications reach 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across Wales’s towns, 31% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Whitehill, 38%, and 13% have none, against 20%.
A younger town than 1 of the 7 around it: Whitehill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehill | 300 | — | 58.2 | 35% | 20% |
| Wooden | 1,300 | 4 mi | 51.9 | 31% | 21% |
| Kilgetty | 1,247 | 4.8 mi | 54.7 | 34% | 16% |
| Pembroke | 7,963 | 4.8 mi | 46.4 | 26% | 25% |
| Saundersfoot | 2,515 | 5.1 mi | 58.7 | 39% | 16% |
| Pembroke Dock | 9,659 | 5.4 mi | 41.7 | 21% | 27% |
| Tenby | 4,092 | 5.4 mi | 52.4 | 30% | 20% |
| Neyland | 3,250 | 5.6 mi | 46.7 | 24% | 24% |
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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 Whitehill’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 Whitehill’s residents
What is the population of Whitehill?
The 2021 Census counted 300 people in Whitehill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Whitehill?
The median age was 58.2 at the 2021 Census. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Whitehill?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Whitehill?
31% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.1% didn’t answer.
Is Whitehill good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Whitehill’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Whitehill?
29 residents aged 3 and over, 9.8%, 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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