Photo: Deborah Tilley · CC BY-SA 2.0Crofty is older than 98% of UK towns: a median age of 56.3
Residents who describe themselves as White British are more common here than in 99% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 959 residents and 452 households in Crofty. The share of households in flats stands at 1.1%. Households in detached houses: 66% here and 24% across Wales’s towns.
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.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 7.3%, against 12% across Wales’s towns. To put it in context, 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 an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students make up 3.8% in Crofty, less than in 89% of UK towns
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%.
6.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier (Wales’s towns: 9.1%). Full-time students make up 8% across Wales’s towns.
In Crofty, 18% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 97% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against West Glamorgan’s towns and Wales’s towns
People per household
Wales’s towns.
At 2.2 people, the average household compares with 2.3 across Wales’s towns. The wider picture: 27% of households have dependent children across Wales’s towns. 1.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. One-person households are rarer here than in 64% of UK towns.
Households in terraced houses: 6.3%, a lower share than 96% 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
Households without a car or van: 11% here and 21% across Wales’s towns. Across Wales’s towns, 29% of households live in a terraced house.
2.2% of residents were born outside the UK, below 98% of UK towns
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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (0.8%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). Compared with other places, residents whose main language is English are common here: 100%, more than in 99% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK across Wales’s towns.
Crofty: 10% of residents speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
Some 98 people here aged 3 and over said in 2021 that they can speak Welsh, 10% of the total, against 16% across Welsh towns: fewer than in 67% of them. Top of West Glamorgan: Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, at 49%.
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 61% of UK towns: 51%
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 Crofty · West Glamorgan’s towns 90% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion account for 41%. Set beside that, 43% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Wales’s towns.
Fewer adults who have never married than 89% of UK towns: 26%
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
12% of residents give unpaid care, against 10% across Wales’s towns. Married adults and civil partners are more common here than in 82% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 39 people.
Degree-level qualifications reach 36% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 31% across Wales’s towns, 36% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 18% hold no qualification (20%).
No nearby town is as old as Crofty
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crofty | 959 | — | 56.3 | 35% | 18% |
| Pen-clawdd | 1,655 | 1.1 mi | 48.3 | 26% | 23% |
| Three Crosses | 1,476 | 2.7 mi | 50.1 | 27% | 27% |
| Loughor | 4,632 | 3.4 mi | 43.9 | 22% | 28% |
| Llanelli | 42,143 | 3.5 mi | 41.9 | 20% | 28% |
| Bryn | 1,727 | 3.6 mi | 35.8 | 16% | 33% |
| Dunvant | 1,732 | 4 mi | 46.7 | 26% | 28% |
| Gowerton | 7,447 | 4.3 mi | 46.8 | 23% | 26% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “West Glamorgan’s towns” and “Wales’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in West Glamorgan (or Wales), summed the same way as Crofty’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 Crofty’s residents
What is the population of Crofty?
The 2021 Census counted 959 people in Crofty’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Crofty?
The median age was 56.3 at the 2021 Census. 7.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Crofty?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 90% across West Glamorgan’s towns. 2.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Crofty?
41% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Crofty good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Crofty’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Crofty?
98 residents aged 3 and over, 10%, 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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