2011 Census

The figures are now out from the 2011 Census - and Hay is home to a lot more foreigners than I expected.
50 people in Hay were born somewhere in Europe, rather than the UK, and another 45 were born outside Europe. 34 of these have arrived in the UK since 2001 and 10 households include an adult who does not speak English as their first language.
Meanwhile 85.5% of the population have no knowledge of Welsh (that would include me, despite knowing the odd word here and there).
36 people in Hay are unemployed, and of those 17 have never worked (I wonder how many of them have recently left school though? The figures don't make that clear). That's 3.17% of Hay's total population overall, which I suppose is not too bad considering nationwide averages.
348 people, that's 21% of the total population, have a long term health problem or disability, and 175 people are unpaid carers - which seems quite a large chunk of the overall population, adding up to around 30%. Mind you, a quarter of the population are also aged over 65, so that might have something to do with it.
Strangely, there are 820 "economically active" people in Hay, but only 782 "persons in employment". So that's 42 people who are economically active, but not in employment - I wonder what they're doing?
The biggest area of employment in Hay is wholesale and retail, with 25%, or 203 of the population out of 782 working people, closely followed by "other" with 145 people. Which just goes to show that we're hard to fit into neat categories in Hay! We also seem to have one miner or quarry worker!
20% of the households in Hay have no car or van, so rely on public transport to leave Hay (that's me again!). Most people have their own transport, which again is not too surprising.
So there it is - all the official figures boiled down into neat percentages.