Photo: Colin Bates · CC BY-SA 2.0Shirenewton is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 56.1
22% of households are one person living alone, against 32% across Wales’s towns. Households in flats: 1.6% of the total. At 20%, the share of households with dependent children is lower than in 95% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put Shirenewton’s population at 286, in 127 households.
Below 99% of UK towns: 5.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
31% of residents are 65 or over; across Wales’s towns the figure is 21%. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Wales’s towns.
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. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Full-time students: 0.8%, a lower share than 99% 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%.
By class, 54% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 13% in routine and semi-routine work (Wales’s towns: 29% and 27%). 4.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Across Wales’s towns, full-time students come to 8%.
0.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 99% 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.
In Shirenewton the average household is 2.2 people, beside 2.3 across Wales’s towns. For comparison, 3.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Wales’s towns.
Shirenewton ranks below 99% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 4.7%
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
Here 3.2% of households live in a terraced house, where the figure across Wales’s towns is 29%. Few places have as many households in detached houses: 70% here, more than in 99% of UK towns. The benchmark for households without a car or van across Wales’s towns: 21%.
Residents whose main language is English: 99%, a higher share than 73% 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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.5%) and in Africa (1.4%). On residents born outside the UK, Shirenewton sits lower than 62% of UK towns: 5.2%. The share of residents whose main language is English across Wales’s towns is 96%.
Welsh, spoken by 7.9% of Shirenewton’s residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Welsh speakers number 22, or 7.9% of residents aged 3 and over, against 16% across Welsh towns: fewer than in 89% of them. No town in Gwent beats Abertridwr and Senghenydd (14%).
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 86% 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: 96% of Shirenewton · Gwent’s towns 91% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 48% in Shirenewton and 43% across Wales’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 90% across Wales’s towns, for comparison. For Shirenewton, the census puts residents with no religion at 45%.
Fewer adults who have never married than 99% of UK towns: 19%
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
Married adults and civil partners: 60% here and 43% across Wales’s towns. Compared with other places, unpaid carers are scarce here: 7%, fewer than in 96% of UK towns. Against that, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. 4 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
A degree-level qualification for 49% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 49% of its adults qualified to degree level, Shirenewton compares with 31% across Wales’s towns; another 6% hold no qualification (20%).
Shirenewton is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shirenewton | 286 | — | 56.1 | 31% | 20% |
| Caer-went | 1,523 | 2.2 mi | 45.4 | 21% | 30% |
| Chepstow | 11,939 | 3.2 mi | 45.4 | 21% | 26% |
| Caldicot | 9,813 | 3.3 mi | 45 | 24% | 28% |
| Portskewett | 1,627 | 3.6 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 22% |
| Rogiet | 1,791 | 3.8 mi | 41.1 | 16% | 32% |
| Tutshill and Sedbury | 3,618 | 3.9 mi | 45.2 | 23% | 28% |
| Beachley | 1,120 | 4.5 mi | 29 | 18% | 35% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Shirenewton’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 Shirenewton’s residents
What is the population of Shirenewton?
The 2021 Census counted 286 people in Shirenewton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Shirenewton?
The median age was 56.1 at the 2021 Census. 5.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Shirenewton?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 91% across Gwent’s towns. 5.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Shirenewton?
45% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Shirenewton good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Shirenewton’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Shirenewton?
22 residents aged 3 and over, 7.9%, 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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