Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0A Welsh-speaking village: 39% of Whitland’s residents speak Welsh
35% of households are one person living alone, against 32% across Wales’s towns. The 2021 Census counted 1,907 residents in 874 households. Across Whitland, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British. With a median age of 46, Whitland is older than just over three fifths of UK towns.
What the Census says about Whitland’s people
A Welsh-speaking village
732 residents, 39% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh in 2021, more than in 88% of Welsh towns. Welsh language ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Whitland ranks above 64% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 24%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 60–64: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Wales’s towns. More residents aged 15 to 24 than in 63% of UK towns: 10%. For comparison, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
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.
Whitland sits below 57% of UK towns for full-time students (4.7%)
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 trails 70% of UK towns: 7.8%. As a yardstick, 8% of adults are full-time students across Wales’s towns.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 77% 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 with dependent children make up 25%, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults are more common here than in 59% of UK towns.
Whitland: 33% of households live in a detached house, above 62% 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
Flats are home to 12% of households, against 14% across Wales’s towns. By way of comparison, 24% of households live in a detached house across Wales’s towns. One household in 8 has no car or van. Few places have so few households in terraced houses: 20% here, fewer than in 52% of UK towns.
Fewer residents born abroad than 70% of UK towns: 4.5%
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 (2.2%), then in Africa (1%). 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 74% of UK towns. Set beside that, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns.
In Whitland, Welsh is a language for 39% of residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
The 2021 Census found 732 Welsh speakers aged 3 and over, 39% of that age group, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 88% of them. No town in Dyfed beats Tumble (62%).
42% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 60% 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 Whitland · Dyfed’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (2.8%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and African (0.3%). Whitland has more residents who describe themselves as Christian than 53% of UK towns, at 50%. For comparison, 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns.
46% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, below 62% 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
Some 67 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Unpaid carers are more common here than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. Elsewhere, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; in Whitland, 32%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 28%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 28% of its adults qualified to degree level, Whitland compares with 31% across Wales’s towns; another 22% hold no qualification (20%).
Around Whitland, 4 of 6 towns have a higher median age
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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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 Whitland’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 Whitland’s residents
What is the population of Whitland?
The 2021 Census counted 1,907 people in Whitland’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Whitland?
The median age was 46 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Whitland?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Dyfed’s towns. 4.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Whitland?
42% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Whitland good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Whitland’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Whitland?
732 residents aged 3 and over, 39%, 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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