Swansea Urban Area

Swansea Urban Area

The Swansea Urban Area is an area of land in Wales, UK defined by defined by the Office for National Statistics for population monitoring purposes. It is an urban conurbation and is not coterminous with the City and County of Swansea and discludes the urban area of Gorseinon within the county boundaries. It conists of the urban area centred around Swansea city centre; the Swansea Valley between and including Clydach and Pontardawe; and includes Neath and Port Talbot which lay outside the county boundaries.

The total population of the area in 2001 was 270,506, making it the the 25th largest urban area in the UK in 2001 [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fom2005/03_FOPM_UrbanAreas.pdf] and the second largest in Wales.

ettlements

The ONS provides sub-division statistics for the Swansea Urban Area [cite web
title=Map of Swansea Urban Area
publisher=ONS
url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/keystats/sqmap.aspx?kv=1367345039&type=-1&title=Swansea+Urban+Area+(urban+areas)
accessdate=2008-07-16]

ee also

*List of conurbations in the United Kingdom

References

External links

* [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/census2001/ks_urban_sw&w_part_11.pdf ONS map, showing the urban area]
* [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=8271&More=Y Office for National Statistics: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas]


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