Photo: Alan Fryer · CC BY-SA 2.0Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 98% in Bryngwran, more than in 99% of UK towns
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 7.6% in Bryngwran and 12% across Wales’s towns. Few places have so few households in flats: 2.6% here, fewer than in 95% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 446, in 191 households. On the census count, 35% of households are one person living alone.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 25% in Bryngwran, more than in 73% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 30–34, with 7.9% of residents. Half of Bryngwran’s residents are over 44.6, older than in 51% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns. In Tywyn, the oldest of Gwynedd’s towns by this measure, it is 36%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Bryngwran ranks below 99% of UK towns on full-time students: 2%
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 27% of Bryngwran’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 31%, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. Here, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. The benchmark for full-time students across Wales’s towns: 8%.
Bryngwran households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 69% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Gwynedd’s towns and Wales’s towns
People per household
Wales’s towns.
Families with dependent children are just over a quarter of households (Wales’s towns 27%), and 13% are someone 66 or over living alone (Gwynedd’s towns 17%). For Bryngwran, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 4.2%.
Above 75% of UK towns: 27% of households live in a terraced house
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
The share of households in detached houses tops 56% of UK towns: 31%. As a reference point, 29% of households live in a terraced house across Wales’s towns. Households without a car or van account for 16%.
Below 99% of UK towns: 1.6% of residents were born outside the UK
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
Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 96%; Bryngwran has 100%. The share of residents born outside the UK across Wales’s towns is 7.4%. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.1%) or in the Middle East and Asia (0.2%).
Bryngwran’s Welsh speakers make up 62% of residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Some 267 people here aged 3 and over said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, 62% of the total, against 16% across Welsh towns: more than in 96% of them. In Gwynedd, Caernarfon has the highest share (82%).
Fewer residents with no religion than 80% of UK towns: 36%
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 Bryngwran · Gwynedd’s towns 93% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 43%; Bryngwran has 55%. Residents with no religion: 47% across Wales’s towns, for comparison.
Fewer married adults and civil partners than 89% of UK towns: 41%
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
The share of unpaid carers is 8.9%, against 10% across Wales’s towns. Adults who have never married are more common here than in 75% of UK towns. Typically, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across Wales’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 29%
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 Bryngwran, 29%, and 20% have none, against 20%.
A younger town than 2 of the 7 around it: Bryngwran
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
- “Gwynedd’s towns” and “Wales’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Gwynedd (or Wales), summed the same way as Bryngwran’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 Bryngwran’s residents
What is the population of Bryngwran?
The 2021 Census counted 446 people in Bryngwran’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bryngwran?
The median age was 44.6 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bryngwran?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 93% across Gwynedd’s towns. 1.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bryngwran?
36% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 9% didn’t answer.
Is Bryngwran good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Bryngwran’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Bryngwran?
267 residents aged 3 and over, 62%, 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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