List of Welsh areas by percentage of Welsh-speakers
This is a List of Welsh principal areas by the percentage of those professing some skills in the Welsh language in Wales in the 2001 UK census. The census did not record Welsh speakers living outside of Wales.
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 Taf | 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 |