Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.079% of households live in a detached house, more than in 99% of UK towns
Nearly a fifth of households are one person living alone, against 32% across Wales’s towns. Census day 2021: 2,912 residents and 1,144 households in Langstone. The census found that 61% of adults are married or in a civil partnership here. Households with dependent children are more common here than in 84% of UK towns.
Half of Langstone is over 45.3, older than 56% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here 9.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 12%. Residents aged 65 and over account for 20%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Langstone, 45.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
In Langstone, 6.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 91% 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%.
With full-time students at 5.8%, Langstone is ahead of 81% of UK towns on that count. The wider picture: 9.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Wales’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2.5 people per household, more than in 93% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Gwent’s towns and Wales’s towns
People per household
Wales’s towns.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across Wales’s towns: 3.1%.
Langstone ranks below 99% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 4.4%
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, 29% of households live in a terraced house; in Langstone, 3.4%. Households in flats account for 2.9%. Against that, just over a fifth of households have no car or van across Wales’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English: 98%, a higher share than 58% 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
Residents born abroad were most often born in the Middle East and Asia (4.5%), then in EU countries (1.4%). To put it in context, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. Compared with other places, residents born outside the UK are common here: 7.5%, more than in just over three fifths of UK towns. Of residents born abroad, 10% arrived in 2017 or later, against 23% across Wales’s towns.
Welsh speakers make up 9.6% of Langstone
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Against 16% across Welsh towns, 9.6% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Welsh here (269 people): fewer than in 74% of Welsh towns. Within Gwent, Abertridwr and Senghenydd has the largest share, 14%.
Langstone sits below 74% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (87%)
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: 87% of Langstone · Gwent’s towns 91% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
48% of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 43% across Wales’s towns. Muslims make up 4.7% of residents. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 40%, fewer than in 54% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 90%.
25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 91% 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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 61. Measured more widely, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. On unpaid carers, Langstone sits higher than just over four fifths of UK towns: 11%.
A degree-level qualification for 46% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 46% of adults in Langstone, 31% across Wales’s towns; 12% have no qualification, against 20%.
190th youngest of 514 UK towns of 2,500 to 4,000 people
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 20.6 in Keele to 63.1 in West Chiltington. Nearest to Langstone in age: Chickerell (45.3), Chirk (45.3), Esh Winning (45.4) and Craven Arms (45.4).
Langstone and its 7 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
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.
- “Gwent’s towns” and “Wales’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Gwent (or Wales), summed the same way as Langstone’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 Langstone’s residents
What is the population of Langstone?
The 2021 Census counted 2,912 people in Langstone’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Langstone?
The median age was 45.3 at the 2021 Census, older than 56% of UK towns. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Langstone?
87% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 91% across Gwent’s towns. 7.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Langstone?
40% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 4.7% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Langstone good for families?
32% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Langstone’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Langstone?
269 residents aged 3 and over, 9.6%, 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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