Newport Built-up area


The Newport Built-up area is an area of land defined by the United Kingdom Office for National Statistics for population monitoring purposes. It is an urban conurbation and is not coterminous with the city boundaries. It consists of the urban area centred on Newport as well as contiguous settlements in the eastern and western valleys extending north of the city - including Cwmbran, Pontypool, Risca, Abercarn and Blackwood. It does however exclude physically detached urban areas within the city boundaries, such as Marshfield.
The detailed methodology of the process used across the UK by ONS in 2011 is set out in 2011 Built-up Areas - Methodology and Guidance, published in June 2013. It is summarised as "..a ‘bricks and mortar’ approach, with areas defined as built-up land with a minimum area of 20 hectares, while settlements within 200 metres of each other are linked. Built-up area sub-divisions are also identified to provide greater detail in the data, especially in the larger conurbations."
The total population of the built-up area defined on this basis in 2011 was 306,844, making Newport the 23rd largest conurbation in England and Wales and the 2nd largest in Wales.

Settlements

The ONS provides sub-division statistics for the Newport Urban Area
RankUrban sub-area namePopulationArea Population density
-Newport 306,84484.22km23,643.363
1Newport 128,06034.72km23,688.364
2Cwmbran46,91514.17km23,310.868
3Pontypool28,3348.065km23,513.205
4Blackwood24,0426.415km23,747.779
5Ystrad Mynach19,2045.065km23,791.51
6Risca14,9583.4975km24,276.769
7Bargoed11,9007.1449km21,665.524
8Newbridge9,5902.4675km23,886.525
9Pontllanfraith9,2202.8225km23,266.608
10Caerleon8,7472.5275km23,460.732
11Abersychan7,5732.3625km23,205.503
12Abercarn5,3521.4925km23,585.93
14Wattsville1,0650.3025km23,520.661
15Aberbargoed9940.425km22,338.824