List of proportion of Welsh speakers by region

Proportion of Welsh speakers in the total population

This list shows the administrative breakdown of Wales and the corresponding percentage of the population with knowledge of Welsh in Wales according to the 2011 Census of Great Britain . Welsh speakers outside Wales were not included.

The census divides knowledge as follows:

• understands Welsh (no other skills)
• speaks Welsh but cannot write or read Welsh
• speaks and reads Welsh but cannot write Welsh
• speaks, reads and writes Welsh
• other combination of language skills
• no knowledge of Welsh

In this table all possible answers have been combined except for "no knowledge of Welsh"

rank	region	Welsh in%	Change compared to 2001 in%
1	Gwynedd	86.3	+10.2
2	Anglesey	80.7	+10.3
3	Ceredigion	73.1	+11.9
4th	Powys	69.9	+39.8
5	Carmarthenshire	69.0	+5.1
6th	Denbighshire	56.6	+20.6
7th	Pembrokeshire	50.8	+21.4
8th	Conwy	40.3	+0.6
9	Wrexham	32.2	+9.3
10	Swansea	30.0	+7.5
11	Neath Port Talbot	29.0	+0.2
12	Flintshire	27.7	+6.3
13	Rhondda Cynon plate	23.3	+2.2
14th	Merthyr Tydfil	21.1	+3.4
15th	Cardiff	20.0	+3.7
16	Caerphilly	19.7	+3.0
17th	Bridgend	19.5	−0.4
18th	Torfaen	19.3	+4.8
19th	Blaenau Gwent	18.5	+5.2
20th	Vale of Glamorgan	15.8	−1.1
21st	Newport	15.5	+2.1
22nd	Monmouthshire	14.0	+1.1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Census 2001: Report on the Welsh language.