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How smart is Newport, Wales?
Newport, Wales, United Kingdom, scores 65.2% against the UN ISO-aligned smart city framework in 2026 — ranked #65 of 386 cities assessed, with every finding traceable to a public source.
Smart score
65.2%
Rank
#65 / 386
Criteria present
40 / 86
Evidence coverage
82.6%
Newport, Wales's smart city score by area
4 present · 9 partial · 0 absent · 2 not assessed
4 present · 6 partial · 1 absent · 1 not assessed
8 present · 4 partial · 0 absent · 1 not assessed
7 present · 2 partial · 0 absent · 2 not assessed
7 present · 6 partial · 0 absent
5 present · 1 partial · 0 absent · 2 not assessed
5 present · 3 partial · 0 absent · 6 not assessed
Where Newport, Wales is strong
- ▸Air Quality & Monitoring
- ▸Housing & Urban Planning
- ▸Health & Digital Health
- ▸Food Security & Urban Agriculture
- ▸Open Data & Transparency
Where the gaps are
- ▸Culture, Tourism & Recreation
- ▸Urban Data Platform & Digital Twin
- ▸Climate Action & Emissions
- ▸Governance & Smart-City Operating Model
- ▸Public Transport & Real-Time Information
Evidence highlights
Open Data & Transparency · High-value datasets published
StatsWales, a government portal for Wales, provides statistics and data on topics including transport, environment, and finance/tax, which covers budget data, available for browsing.
https://statswales.gov.wales/Open Data & Transparency · Programmatic API access
The StatsWales portal, which provides data for Wales, explicitly offers API access for its statistics and data.
https://statswales.gov.wales/Urban Data Platform & Digital Twin · Integrated urban data platform
DataMapWales serves as a shared data platform for public sector data in Wales, providing a data catalogue and map viewer for public authorities and the public, which Newport's public authorities would utilize.
https://datamap.gov.wales/Air Quality & Monitoring · Air-quality monitoring network
The Air Quality in Wales website provides data from regional monitoring sites, and a DEFRA UK Air URL specifically references a monitoring site with ID 'NPT', indicating fixed air quality monitoring in Newport.
https://airquality.gov.wales/About this assessment
Newport, Wales was assessed against the 86 criteria of the UN ISO-aligned smart city framework on 2026-07-10 by AI agents gathering evidence from official public sources. Each criterion is marked present, partial or absent, and every finding links to where it was found. Scores refresh continuously as cities publish new evidence.