Data for the Areas Identified in the Wales Spatial Plan, 2009 Update

This statistical bulletin presents separate profiles for each of the six areas identified in the Wales Spatial Plan, summarising the key features of each area from a statistical perspective.

The bulletin is informed by the wider Wales Spatial Plan data resource (first published in late 2007), which has been developed to include updates to existing data as well as some new data items.  The updated resource will be available on the Welsh Assembly Government website from 9 December 2009, providing access to a set of themed data spreadsheets for each of the six areas, along with a spreadsheet for each theme, showing all the areas alongside each other.

The statistical profiles and data resource cover a wide range of data items.  A very small selection of points from the individual statistical profiles is given below.

• North West Wales has the lowest projected growth in the number of households between 2006 and 2031 in Wales at 23.2% (Wales 27.5%)
• Employment rates in North East Wales were the highest across Wales in 2008, at 75.6% of its working age population (Wales 70.7%).
• Central Wales had the lowest primary school pupil-teacher ratios across Wales in January 2009, at 17.5 pupils per teacher, and also the lowest secondary school pupil-teacher ratios, at 15.6 pupils per teacher (Wales 19.9 and 16.4).
• Pembrokeshire Haven had the highest house prices in 2008 amongst all Spatial Plan areas in Wales, at just under £183,000 (based on completed sales).
• Swansea Bay had the highest percentage of its population treated by an NHS dentist in the two years to 31 March 2009, at 60% (55% for Wales), but also the highest percentage of adults with less than 21 teeth or mainly false teeth or dentures at 31% (28% for Wales) for 2007-2008.
• In 2008, South East Wales had lowest number of road accidents reported to the police per 10,000 persons in Wales, at 22.4 (Wales 26.0).

Contact

Tel: 029 2080 1238
E-mail: adam.al-nuaimi@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

December 2010 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)