Dowlais: Welsh language skills (detailed)

Location Type: Communities, ONS Geographic Code: W04000715

Key Facts

All Residents	4,099
Male	1,988
Female	2,107
Households	1,953

The ONS doesn't publish census data directly for Communities. The figures on this page are aggregated from census areas contained within Dowlais. They may not, therefore, be precisely accurate. Age-standardised statistics and population density are not available for aggregated datasets.

Related Census Areas
Is within
- Merthyr Tydfil
  Unitary Authorities
- Dowlais and Pant
  Electoral Wards
- Dowlais
  Middle layer Super Output Areas
Borders with
- Pant
  Communities
- Vaynor
  Communities
- Rhymney
  Communities
- Town
  Communities
- Penydarren
  Communities
Overlaps with
- Merthyr Tydfil
  Built Up Areas
- Output Area at SO056083
  Output Areas
- Merthyr Tydfil 002A
  Lower layer Super Output Areas
- Output Area at SO059074
  Output Areas
- Output Area at SO060077
  Output Areas
Contains
- Merthyr Tydfil 002D
  Lower layer Super Output Areas
- Merthyr Tydfil 002C
  Lower layer Super Output Areas

Table Code	ts032
Issued	2022-12-06
Unit of Measure	Person
Number of Response Options	10

Description
Data
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This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in Wales by their overall Welsh language skills. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Summary

Whether a person has Welsh language skills. If they do, can they do any of the following:

* understand spoken Welsh
* speak Welsh
* read Welsh
* write Welsh
* no skills in Welsh

The census questionnaire only asked this question to people in Wales.

In results that classify people by Welsh language skills, a person may appear in more than one category depending on which combination of skills they have.

Welsh language skills: Total: All usual residents aged 3 years and over	3,958
Can understand spoken Welsh only	157
Can speak, read and write Welsh	232
Can speak but cannot read or write Welsh	58
Can speak and read but cannot write Welsh	18
Can read but cannot speak or write Welsh	50
Can write but cannot speak or read Welsh	7
Can read and write but cannot speak Welsh	16
Can speak and other combinations of skills in Welsh	2
No skills in Welsh	3,418

These values are calculated by adding up the values for census output areas contained within Dowlais. They may, therefore, be slightly inaccurate due to administrative boundaries not precisely aligning with census boundaries.

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