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Councils decide where money and services go. Knowing which neighbourhoods are most deprived, where Welsh is spoken and where second homes are concentrated helps you judge their decisions on schools, housing, transport and council tax.
Of its 79 neighbourhoods, 10 are in towns and cities of 10,000 people or more, 25 are in rural towns or their fringes, and 44 are villages, hamlets or open countryside. The last two together count as rural in the ONS 2021 Rural Urban Classification.
Across Wales, 16% of neighbourhoods are villages or countryside.
In the 2021 census, across this area's neighbourhoods, an average of about 16% of people aged three or over said they could speak Welsh. Across Wales it was about 18%.
In 4 of its neighbourhoods, 40% or more can speak Welsh.
The highest share is in Glantwymyn, at 54.5%.
The Welsh Government ranks every neighbourhood in Wales, from the most deprived (1) to the least deprived (1,917). It looks at income, jobs, health, education, housing, access to services, safety and the local environment. It describes places, not people: not everyone in a deprived area is poor, and many people on low incomes live elsewhere.
1 of the neighbourhoods here are among the 10% most deprived in Wales, and 3 are among the 10% least deprived. If deprivation were spread evenly, you would expect about 8 of each.
The most deprived is Ystradgynlais 1, ranked 134 of 1,917. The least deprived is Builth 2, ranked 1,793.
The rank of the middle neighbourhood here on each measure. Dots to the left of the line are more deprived than the middle of Wales; dots to the right are less deprived.
Compared with the rest of Wales, it does worst on access to services and best on health.
In March 2023, in the typical area here, about 21 in every 1,000 homes on the council tax list were second homes. Across Wales the typical figure was 6.
None of its areas had 50 or more in every 1,000.
These figures are for wider areas of about 7,000 people, so neighbouring neighbourhoods share a colour.
Each neighbourhood (a Lower layer Super Output Area, the smallest area most official statistics are published for) belongs to one council area. A council area's figure for Welsh speakers is the average of its neighbourhoods, which have similar numbers of people.
The maps are read from DataMapWales, the Welsh Government's map service, and checked once a month for updates. Last read 27 October 2026.