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List of Welsh principal areas by percentage Welsh language
This is a List of Welsh principal areas by the percentage of those professing some skills in the Welsh language in the 2001 UK census.
The census produced[1] a detailed breakdown of skills as:
- Understands spoken Welsh (no other skills)
- Speaks but does not read or write Welsh
- Speaks and reads but does not write Welsh
- Speaks, reads and writes Welsh
- Other combination of skills
- No knowledge of Welsh
For the purpose of this table, all combinations other than "No knowledge of Welsh" have been combined.
| Rank | Area | Welsh % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gwynedd | 76.1 | 
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| 2 | Anglesey | 70.4 | |
| 3 | Carmarthenshire | 63.6 | |
| 4 | Ceredigion | 61.2 | |
| 5 | Conwy | 39.7 | |
| 6 | Denbighshire | 36.0 | |
| 7 | Powys | 30.1 | |
| 8 | Pembrokeshire | 29.4 | |
| 9 | Neath Port Talbot | 28.8 | |
| 10 | Wrexham | 22.9 | |
| 11 | Swansea | 22.5 | |
| 12 | Flintshire | 21.4 | |
| 13 | Rhondda Cynon Taff | 21.1 | |
| 14 | Bridgend | 19.9 | |
| 15 | Merthyr Tydfil | 17.7 | |
| 16 | Vale of Glamorgan | 16.9 | |
| 17 | Caerphilly | 16.7 | |
| 18 | Cardiff | 16.3 | |
| 19 | Torfaen | 14.5 | |
| 20 | Newport | 13.4 | |
| 21 | Blaenau Gwent | 13.3 | |
| 22 | Monmouthshire | 12.9 |
See also
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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