Carmarthen

Carmarthen is a historic county in Wales. It was number 2 out of 13 (in population) in all of Wales.

Basic Statistics

Below is a snapshot of key statistics which are population, number of houses, and the female proportion of the population.

Family Occupations

This pie chart shows the principle occupation by family in Carmarthen. For Carmarthen, the proportion of families that were mainly involved in Agriculture was 48.2%. In Manufacture and Trade, the proportion was 25.58%, and other occupations made up 26.22%.

For comparison, for the entire country of Wales (including the county of Monmouth), the proportion of families that were mainly involved in Agriculture was 42.27%. In Manufacture and Trade, the proportion was 28.6%, and other occupations made up 29.13%.

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Male Occupations

The bar chart shows a breakdown in occupations of males over 20 in the county of Carmarthen. The following is a proportion breakdown of each employment type (with comparisons to country level statistics):

Occupation Carmarthen Wales
Agriculture Employing Labourers 11.71% 9.65%
Agriculture Not Employing Labourers 13.16% 9.53%
Agriculture that are Labourers 29.71% 27.22%
Manufacturing 1.25% 4.29%
Retail Trade or Handicraft 23.91% 22.51%
Professional or other Education Occupation2.63% 2.71%
Labourers not in Agriculture 11.61% 17.48%
Servants 0.74% 1.12%
Other Occupations 5.28% 5.5%

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Housing

This pie chart shows the houses in Carmarthen by completion and whether they were inhabited. For Carmarthen, the proportion of houses that were inhabited was 96.48%. For houses being built, the proportion was 0.95%, and uninhabited made up 2.57%.

For comparison, for the entire country of Wales (including the county of Monmouth), the proportion of houses that were inhabited was 95.35%. For houses being built, the proportion was 0.8%, and uninhabited made up 3.84%.

Click on the graph to see the numbers in each type of housing.