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The marker shows the centre of Wales, and the outline is the council area it sits in. Use Full screen for the layers: neighbourhood deprivation (IoD2025, England only) and nearby schools. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

People

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3,186,581
Resident population · 2024
1.7%
Population change · 2022 to 2024
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Resident population
Estimated usual resident population (mid-year estimate).
Office for National Statistics
Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2024Wales (Country)aggregated, high quality
Population change 2022 to 2024 (%)
Percentage change between mid-2022 (revised) and mid-2024.
Office for National Statistics
Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2022-2024Wales (Country)aggregated, high quality
Method: Mid-year population estimates

ONS mid-year estimates are modelled from the 2021 Census, births, deaths and migration. Mid-2022 is the revised series. Ages are grouped: 0-15 means ages 0 to 15 inclusive, working age 16-64, 65 and over. Change 2022-2024 compares the revised mid-2022 with mid-2024 estimates for the same boundaries. Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-year estimates for council areas published by ONS from National Records of Scotland and NISRA (via Nomis), for 2022 to 2024, to match the England and Wales years. No small-area (ward or neighbourhood) estimates are held for them.

Homes

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£215,000
Median sale price · Year to Oct 2025
2.4%
Change in median sale price · Year to Oct 2025 vs a year earlier
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Median sale price
Median price of homes sold in the 12-month period (needs 10+ sales).
HM Land Registry
Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)
Year to Oct 2025Wales (Country)aggregated, high quality
Change in median sale price over a year
Percentage change in the median between consecutive 12-month windows. Not mix-adjusted.
HM Land Registry
Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)
Year to Oct 2025 vs Year to Oct 2024Wales (Country)aggregated, high quality
Method: Price paid medians

Sales are mapped from postcode to each geography exactly. The headline is the median sale price over the latest 12 COMPLETE months (a month is complete when national standard sales are at least 85% of the average of the 24 months before it; currently November 2024 to October 2025) and the 12 months before that. Months after that (Nov 2025 onward in the April 2026 extract) are still being registered and are excluded. Yearly medians use complete calendar years 2016-2024. Medians need at least 10 sales; sales counts are published for any area. Medians describe homes that sold, not all homes, and are not adjusted for the mix of property types, so a change in the median can reflect what was sold. Registration lags completion, so recent months can be revised up. Only standard price paid sales (category A) are included.

Education

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31.5%
Adults with a degree-level qualification or above · 2021
19.9%
Adults with no qualifications · 2021
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Adults with a degree-level qualification or above
Share of usual residents aged 16 and over whose highest qualification is Level 4 (degree level) or above (Census 2021).
Office for National Statistics
Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualification
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2021Wales (Country)direct, high quality
Adults with no qualifications
Share of usual residents aged 16 and over with no qualifications (Census 2021).
Office for National Statistics
Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualification
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2021Wales (Country)direct, high quality
Method: Census 2021 housing, health and qualifications for Wales

Wales held its census on the same day as England (21 March 2021) with the same questions, so the figures are directly comparable. For Wales we use the published local authority tables. Tenure counts shared ownership with owners; "private rented" includes people who live rent free, as in the England figures. Overcrowding is an occupancy rating of -1 or less for bedrooms. Qualifications are for people aged 16 and over; "no qualifications" and "Level 4 or above" (degree level and above) are shares of all those people. Counts are rounded by random adjustment, so tiny differences from other tables are expected. Wales households per local authority are not split to small areas here.

Economy

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£719
Median weekly pay, full-time employees living here · 2025
1,349,000
Jobs located in the area · 2024
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Median gross weekly pay, full-time employees living here
Median gross weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area (ASHE, place of residence). Cash terms, not inflation adjusted.
Office for National Statistics
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), via Nomis: tables 7 (place of work) and 8 (place of residence)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2025Wales (Country)direct, high quality
Coefficient of variation 1.0%.
Jobs located in the area (BRES employment)
Employees plus working owners at workplaces in the area (BRES). Rounded; place of work, not residence.
Office for National Statistics
Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), open access, via Nomis
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2024Wales (Country)direct, high quality
Rounded by ONS.
Method: Earnings from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

ASHE is a 1% sample of employee jobs from HMRC PAYE records, with a reference week in April. We hold the median gross pay of full-time employees, by place of residence (where the employee lives) and by place of work (where the job is), for the latest survey year and the years back to 2015. Median weekly pay is gross pay before tax for the pay period that includes the reference date; annual pay is gross annual pay for the year to April. Pay is in cash terms: it is not adjusted for inflation, so changes over time include price rises. Survey estimates have a margin of error that grows as areas get smaller; each value carries its coefficient of variation and values with a CV above 10% are marked low quality. Estimates ONS judges too unreliable (CV above about 40%) are not published and appear here as absent. Self-employed people are not covered. Residence-based figures describe people who live in the area wherever they work; workplace-based figures describe jobs located in the area wherever the employee lives. The two can differ a lot in commuter areas and city centres.

Method: Employment by industry (BRES)

BRES is the official source of employee and employment estimates by detailed industry and area. Employment is employees plus working owners, counted at the place of work and in the survey week in September. It covers all sectors except small farm agriculture, and the self-employed who are not registered for PAYE or VAT. ONS rounds BRES employment and suppresses small cells, so industry sums may not add to the total. Jobs here are not residents: people may live elsewhere. Part-time and full-time jobs count equally (they are not full-time equivalents).

Community

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67.6 per 1,000
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents · Year to Apr 2026
7,998
Charities registered here · Oct 2026
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Recorded crime (excluding anti-social behaviour) per 1,000 residents
police.uk crime categories except anti-social behaviour, 12 months, per 1,000 residents.
Police forces of England and Wales via data.police.uk
Street-level crime (12 monthly files)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Year to Apr 2026Wales (Country)aggregated, high quality
12 months to April 2026.
Charities based in the area
Registered charities whose registered address is in the area.
Charity Commission for England and Wales; OSCR (Scotland); Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
Registers of charities (registered address, latest income, charitable purposes)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI terms apply: not the register itself, no direct marketing)
Oct 2026Wales (Country)aggregated, medium quality
By registered address. Counts charities by their registered contact address (often a trustee or a head office), not where they work. England and Wales register only.
Method: Recorded street crime per 1,000 residents

Counts of crimes in police.uk street-level data for May 2025 to April 2026, matched to 2021 LSOAs by the LSOA code on each record, then split to output areas by population and rolled up (see the area apportioning method). Rates are crimes per 1,000 residents (mid-2024 population) and describe where crimes were recorded, not who committed them or where victims live. High rates occur where many non-residents pass through (town centres, transport hubs, nightlife), so they are not a measure of risk to residents. Crimes with no location (blank LSOA) are excluded; the excluded share by force is in the notes. Greater Manchester Police data are absent from the extract, so those areas have no value. Categories follow police.uk. Anti-social behaviour is incident data, not crime proper, and is included only in the "all categories" rate. 12 months only: no trend is possible and seasonal effects are included.

Method: Charities in an area

A charity is placed by the postcode of its registered/contact address (or the nearest postcode to its geocoded address; some are placed by the nearest postcode to a geocoded address), so counts show where charities are based, not where they work: a national charity with a London address is counted in London. Income is the latest annual income on the register, summed; it is dominated by a few very large charities. "Declaring the area" counts charities that name the local authority (or its county) as an area of operation on the register; it does not mean services are delivered everywhere in that area. Registered charities only; unregistered community groups, small charities below the registration threshold and removed charities are not counted.

The future

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How much of the work residents do generally available AI tools could speed up

  • A small part 56.3%
  • Some 18.3%
  • Much 24.1%
  • Not yet assessed 1.3%

CareerMash staging data (11 Oct 2026), approved by the owner for this preview, subject to change; not yet independently validated

What stands out about this place?

Findings where this place differs most from its surroundings, with the evidence behind each one. A difference is not a verdict: it is a prompt to look closer.

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Residents in employment

53.5% of residents aged 16+ in Wales were in employment on Census day, lower than the 57.2% for England and Wales (Census 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic).

53.5% here57.2% England and Wales
How do we know this?
Source
not recorded
Period
Census 2021 (21 March 2021)
Geography
Country, compared with England and Wales
Method
Compared with the same measure for the comparison geography.
Limitations
  • Census day was 21 March 2021, during the pandemic and furlough.
  • Shown separately from other measures; no composite.
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The futurehigh confidence

Residents retired

24.7% of residents aged 16+ in Wales were retired on Census day, higher than the 21.6% for England and Wales (Census 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic).

24.7% here21.6% England and Wales
How do we know this?
Source
not recorded
Period
Census 2021 (21 March 2021)
Geography
Country, compared with England and Wales
Method
Compared with the same measure for the comparison geography.
Limitations
  • Census day was 21 March 2021, during the pandemic and furlough.
  • Shown separately from other measures; no composite.
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Registered offices are not operating locations. Ranks and deciles are never averaged. Census 2021 figures are labelled 2021.