Photo: WelshDave · CC BY-SA 4.0Older than 97% of UK towns: half of Tintern is over 55.4
By its share of households with dependent children (16%), Tintern is below 99% of UK towns. The village is home to 337 residents in 156 households, by the 2021 Census. In Tintern, 63% of households live in a detached house. Few places have so few households in terraced houses: 3.9% here, fewer than in 98% of UK towns.
33% of residents are 65 or over, a share 94% of UK towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across Wales’s towns, Tintern has 7.8%. The usual figure: 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 97% of UK towns: 3.3%
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%.
Across Wales’s towns, 29% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine or semi-routine work; Tintern has 43% and 17%. The usual figure: 8% of adults are full-time students across Wales’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 5.1% of the total.
Tintern: 5.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, above 96% 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.
A household here has 2.2 people on average; across Wales’s towns, 2.3. More one-person households than in 73% of UK towns: 33%. Against that, 3.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Wales’s towns.
Tintern sits below 93% of UK towns for households without a car or van (7.7%)
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
In Tintern, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment. Across Wales’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 21%.
Tintern ranks above 99% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 100%
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
Compared with 7.4% across Wales’s towns, 4.8% of residents were born outside the UK here. As a reference point, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.5%).
Welsh is spoken by 5.4% of Tintern’s residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
At the 2021 Census, 18 residents aged 3 and over, 5.4%, said they can speak Welsh, against 16% across Welsh towns: fewer than in 99% of Welsh towns. The highest share in Gwent belongs to Abertridwr and Senghenydd (14%).
A higher White British share than 73% of UK towns: 95% of residents
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 Tintern · Gwent’s towns 91% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 44% here and 43% across Wales’s towns. Higher than in 89% of UK towns: 48% of residents said they have no religion. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns: 90%. After White British, the largest groups are Other White (3.3%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Chinese (0.6%).
15% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 99% 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
14 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Elsewhere, one in ten residents give unpaid care across Wales’s towns. Fewer adults who have never married than in 89% of UK towns: 26%. Compared with 43% across Wales’s towns, 55% of adults are married or in a civil partnership here.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 42%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 42% of adults in Tintern (Wales’s towns: 31%), and no qualification by 16% (Wales’s towns: 20%).
No nearby town is as old as Tintern
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tintern | 337 | — | 55.4 | 33% | 16% |
| Tutshill and Sedbury | 3,618 | 4.4 mi | 45.2 | 23% | 28% |
| Chepstow | 11,939 | 5 mi | 45.4 | 21% | 26% |
| Bream | 3,117 | 5.6 mi | 48.6 | 24% | 26% |
| Beachley | 1,120 | 6.2 mi | 29 | 18% | 35% |
| Coleford | 5,023 | 6.7 mi | 47.2 | 25% | 22% |
| Lydney | 9,655 | 6.9 mi | 44 | 23% | 26% |
| Yorkley and Whitecroft | 2,678 | 7.3 mi | 51 | 27% | 23% |
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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 Tintern’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 Tintern’s residents
What is the population of Tintern?
The 2021 Census counted 337 people in Tintern’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Tintern?
The median age was 55.4 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tintern?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 91% across Gwent’s towns. 4.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Tintern?
48% said they had no religion and 44% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.2% didn’t answer.
Is Tintern good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Tintern’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Tintern?
18 residents aged 3 and over, 5.4%, 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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