Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 54.4: Dilwyn is older than 96% of UK towns
56% of adults are married or in a civil partnership (England’s towns: 44%). Census day 2021: 458 residents and 202 households in Dilwyn. For Dilwyn, the census puts residents who describe themselves as White British at 98%. At 0.5%, the share of households in flats is lower than in 99% of UK towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 90% of UK towns: 30%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 9.8% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Few places have so few residents aged 15 to 24: 9.4% here, fewer than in 63% of UK towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
More students than 76% of UK towns: 5.6% of adults in Dilwyn
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%.
In Dilwyn, 38% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Locally, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Households with dependent children: 24%, a lower share than 81% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Herefordshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
With one-person households at 26%, Dilwyn is behind 82% of UK towns on that count. Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are common here: 3%, more than in 75% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children is 29%. On average, 2.3 people share a household.
Only 3.5% of households in Dilwyn have no car or van
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
Households in detached houses: 61%, above 97% of UK towns. Compared with other places, households in terraced houses are scarce here: 14%, fewer than in 76% of UK towns. By way of comparison, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
Dilwyn ranks below 99% of UK towns on residents born outside the UK: 2%
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 25%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
100% of residents have English as their main language (England’s towns: 90%). The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.1%) and in Africa (0.4%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%.
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 94% of UK towns: 60%
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 Dilwyn · Herefordshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 37%; Dilwyn has 33%. To put it in context, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Dilwyn ranks below 95% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 24%
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 care takes 50 hours a week or more for 7 people. Across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married is 39%. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9.3%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 41% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 41% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 11% hold no qualification (18%).
Nearby, 1 of 7 towns have older populations than Dilwyn
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dilwyn | 458 | — | 54.4 | 30% | 24% |
| Weobley | 1,273 | 2.1 mi | 56.2 | 36% | 20% |
| Leominster | 11,206 | 5.4 mi | 44.9 | 25% | 25% |
| Credenhill | 2,334 | 7.2 mi | 36.8 | 15% | 39% |
| Kington | 2,423 | 7.5 mi | 50.3 | 28% | 20% |
| Presteigne | 1,929 | 8.7 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 20% |
| Clehonger | 1,218 | 10.7 mi | 46.1 | 27% | 25% |
| Hereford | 60,471 | 10.7 mi | 40.9 | 19% | 27% |
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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.
- “Herefordshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Herefordshire (or England), summed the same way as Dilwyn’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 Dilwyn’s residents
What is the population of Dilwyn?
The 2021 Census counted 458 people in Dilwyn’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dilwyn?
The median age was 54.4 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dilwyn?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Herefordshire’s towns. 2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dilwyn?
33% said they had no religion and 60% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Dilwyn good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Dilwyn’s schools page.
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). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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