Photo: Keith Salvesen · CC BY-SA 2.0Llangynidr is older than 96% of UK towns: a median age of 54.7
Households in detached houses: 73%, above 99% of UK towns. For Llangynidr, the census puts households in terraced houses at 2.5%. Compared with other places, households with dependent children are scarce here: 22%, fewer than in 88% of UK towns. 1,038 residents in 450 households: that is Llangynidr at the 2021 Census.
What the Census says about Llangynidr’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Llangynidr’s residents are under 54.7 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 35% are 65 or over, against 21% across Wales’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 65 and over: 35%, a higher share than 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: 9.6% of residents, 1.7 times the share across Wales’s towns. 7.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. The wider picture: 21% of residents are 65 or over across Wales’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 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.
More full-time students than 55% of UK towns: 4.9%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year are about as common here as across Wales’s towns, at 9.4%. For comparison, 8% of adults are full-time students across Wales’s towns.
A smaller share of one-person households than 79% of UK towns: 26%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Powys’ towns and Wales’s towns
People per household
Wales’s towns.
In Llangynidr the average household is 2.3 people, beside 2.3 across Wales’s towns. One-person households: 32% across Wales’s towns, for comparison. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 2%.
Below 99% of UK towns: 1.3% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Set against 21% across Wales’s towns, 6% of households have no car or van in Llangynidr. For households in flats, the comparison across Wales’s towns is 14%.
100% of residents have English as their main language, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Residents born outside the UK: 3.6% here and 7.4% across Wales’s towns. 100% of residents have English or Welsh as their main language.
11% of Llangynidr’s residents say they can speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
11% of residents aged 3 and over, 108 people, said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, fewer than in 64% of Welsh towns (Welsh towns: 16%). Ystradgynlais leads Powys with 32%.
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 84% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Llangynidr · Powys’ towns 94% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
In Llangynidr, 46% of residents said they have no religion, beside 47% across Wales’s towns. By way of comparison, nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns. Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.3%), Mixed or multiple (1.3%) and Caribbean (0.4%). Residents who describe themselves as Christian are rarer here than in 71% of UK towns.
Only 19% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Llangynidr
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 make up 61%, against 43% across Wales’s towns. The census found that 11% of residents give unpaid care in Llangynidr. By way of comparison, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns.
48% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 48% of adults in Llangynidr (Wales’s towns: 31%), and no qualification by 13% (Wales’s towns: 20%).
Llangynidr is older than every town around it
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
- “Powys’ towns” and “Wales’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Powys (or Wales), summed the same way as Llangynidr’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 Llangynidr’s residents
What is the population of Llangynidr?
The 2021 Census counted 1,038 people in Llangynidr’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Llangynidr?
The median age was 54.7 at the 2021 Census. 7.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Llangynidr?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 94% across Powys’ towns. 3.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Llangynidr?
46% said they had no religion and 46% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Llangynidr good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Llangynidr’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Llangynidr?
108 residents aged 3 and over, 11%, 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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