Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 57.3: Llanyre is older than 98% of UK towns
In Llanyre, 31% of residents said they have no religion, beside 47% across Wales’s towns. Households with dependent children: 18% of the total. Few places have so few households without a car or van: 4.8% here, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. Its 125 households held 281 residents at the 2021 Census.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 99% of UK towns: 38%
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, Llanyre has 8.5%. As a reference point, 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 95 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 85% of UK towns: 4%
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%.
By class, nearly two in five adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 11% in routine and semi-routine work (Wales’s towns: 29% and 27%). Across Wales’s towns, the share of full-time students is 8%. In Llanyre, 8.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Fewer people live alone than in 78% of UK towns: 26% of households
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.6% here and 3.1% across Wales’s towns. On average, 2.2 people share a household. Across Wales’s towns, the share of one-person households is 32%.
Households in detached houses: 98%, a higher share than 99% 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
By its share of households in terraced houses (0.8%), Llanyre is below 99% of UK towns. To put it in context, nearly a quarter of households live in a detached house across Wales’s towns.
A lower share of residents born outside the UK than 99% of UK towns, at 2.1%
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
96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns, against 99% in Llanyre. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (1.4%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.7%). The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across Wales’s towns: 7.4%.
13% of people in Llanyre speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Against 16% across Welsh towns, 13% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Welsh here (37 people): more than in 61% of Welsh towns. Within Powys, Ystradgynlais has the largest share, 32%.
Llanyre: 98% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 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 Llanyre · Powys’ towns 94% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
With residents who describe themselves as Christian at 59%, Llanyre is ahead of 91% of UK towns on that count. Against that, 90% of residents describe themselves as White British across Wales’s towns.
14% 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
Just over a quarter of Llanyre’s adults have never married or formed a civil partnership and 57% are married, against 38% and 43% across Wales’s towns. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 89% of UK towns. Across Wales’s towns, unpaid carers come to 10%.
Degree-level qualifications reach 34% of adults
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 Llanyre, 34%, and 17% have none, against 20%.
Every neighbour of Llanyre has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llanyre | 281 | — | 57.3 | 38% | 18% |
| Llandrindod Wells | 5,429 | 1.4 mi | 49.5 | 28% | 20% |
| Rhayader | 1,837 | 5.5 mi | 50.9 | 31% | 20% |
| Builth Wells | 2,620 | 7.5 mi | 47.1 | 26% | 22% |
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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 Llanyre’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 Llanyre’s residents
What is the population of Llanyre?
The 2021 Census counted 281 people in Llanyre’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Llanyre?
The median age was 57.3 at the 2021 Census. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 38% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Llanyre?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 94% across Powys’ towns. 2.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Llanyre?
31% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.8% didn’t answer.
Is Llanyre good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Llanyre’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Llanyre?
37 residents aged 3 and over, 13%, 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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