Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0Above 99% of UK towns: 66% of households live in a terraced house
Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 47%; Bedlinog has 56%. Nearly a quarter of households have dependent children, fewer than in 78% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 1,098, in 503 households. For Bedlinog, the census puts unpaid carers at 13%.
Older than 64% of UK towns: half of Bedlinog is over 46.3
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Young people aged 15 to 24 make up 9.6% of residents, against 12% across Wales’s towns. The biggest five-year age group is 50–54, with 8.5% of residents.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Bedlinog sits below 97% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (5.9%)
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 Bedlinog, 21% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 31% in routine and semi-routine work, against 29% and 27% across Wales’s towns. As a yardstick, 9.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Wales’s towns. Here, 5.4% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Below 95% of UK towns: 1.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Mid Glamorgan’s towns and Wales’s towns
People per household
Wales’s towns.
The share of one-person households tops 74% of UK towns: 33%. Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3.1% across Wales’s towns. The average household has 2.2 people.
Households in detached houses make up 16% in Bedlinog, less than in 83% of UK towns
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, the share of households without a car or van is 21%; Bedlinog has 19%. At the same time, households in flats are rarer here than in 81% of UK towns. Against that, nearly a quarter of households live in a detached house across Wales’s towns.
Below 99% of UK towns: 1.5% 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
Where 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns, Bedlinog has 99%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (0.5%), then in the Middle East and Asia (0.5%). To put it in context, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns.
In Bedlinog, Welsh is a language for 9.1% of residents
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
97 residents, 9.1% of those aged 3 and over, said they can speak Welsh at the 2021 Census, against 16% across Welsh towns: fewer than in 78% of Welsh towns. No town in Mid Glamorgan beats Pontyclun (20%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 98%, a higher share than 99% 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: 98% of Bedlinog · Mid Glamorgan’s towns 95% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Across Wales’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 43%; Bedlinog has 36%. As a reference point, nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns.
Bedlinog: 34% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, above 60% 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
46% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, against 43% across Wales’s towns. The comparison figure for adults who have never married is 38% across Wales’s towns.
23% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Bedlinog’s adults: 23% with a degree-level qualification and 27% with none, against 31% and 20% across Wales’s towns.
The towns around Bedlinog are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedlinog | 1,098 | — | 46.3 | 21% | 24% |
| Aberfan | 2,431 | 1.6 mi | 40.2 | 19% | 27% |
| Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach | 3,780 | 1.7 mi | 45.7 | 23% | 25% |
| Trelewis | 2,022 | 2.6 mi | 37.1 | 16% | 37% |
| Fochriw | 1,148 | 2.6 mi | 43.2 | 19% | 29% |
| Treharris | 5,042 | 2.8 mi | 44.4 | 21% | 26% |
| Pontlottyn | 1,832 | 3.2 mi | 45.2 | 20% | 24% |
| Mountain Ash | 13,002 | 3.3 mi | 41.2 | 19% | 29% |
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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.
- “Mid Glamorgan’s towns” and “Wales’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Mid Glamorgan (or Wales), summed the same way as Bedlinog’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 Bedlinog’s residents
What is the population of Bedlinog?
The 2021 Census counted 1,098 people in Bedlinog’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bedlinog?
The median age was 46.3 at the 2021 Census. 9.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bedlinog?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 95% across Mid Glamorgan’s towns. 1.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bedlinog?
56% said they had no religion and 36% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.2% didn’t answer.
Is Bedlinog good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Bedlinog’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Bedlinog?
97 residents aged 3 and over, 9.1%, 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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