Tremorfa (

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for ''Tre'' town + ''morfa'' coastal marsh) is a district and (since 2016)

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of the city of

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, Wales. It falls into the

Splott Splott ( cy, Y Sblot) is a district and community in the south of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales, just east of the city centre. It was built up in the late 19th century on the land of two farms of the same name: Upper Splott and Lower ...

ward of Cardiff.

Transport

Tremorfa is served by the Cardiff Bus 11 route (was 61 for a few years as the Pentrebane route was extended) operating from Pengam Green to the city centre via Tremorfa, Splott and Adamsdown. It is also served by the numbers 1 and 2 City Circle service.

Employment

The rate of unemployment in Tremorfa is both higher than the average for Cardiff and higher than the national average, suggesting that finding a job in this area may be hard. The rate of claiming any benefit (which includes in work benefits) is more than 10% lower in Tremorfa than the national average, suggesting higher salaries than the average in the area.I Live Here: Tremorfa, Cardiff
Accessed 13 Dec 2015.

Social grade and occupation statistics

Social grade is a classification based on occupation and it enables a household and all its members to be classified according to the job of the main income earner. Tremorfa has 20% more higher and intermediate managerial, administrative or professional households than the national average.

Education

Education statistics are for the highest level education obtained by the residents of Tremorfa and are from the UK

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of 2011. Tremorfa has a lower level of residents with either no qualifications or qualifications equal to 1 or more

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at grade D or below, than the national average. Tremorfa also has a high level of residents with a higher education qualification (level 4) than the national average.

Schools

Tremorfa is served by several schools. The only high school is

Willows High School Willows High School ( cy, Ysgol Uwchradd Willows) is a secondary school located in the Tremorfa area of Cardiff, Wales. It caters for pupils aged 11 to 16 and is English-medium. As of September 2015, the headteacher is Chris Norman. He succeede ...

which is situated on Willows avenue. The school was once described as "unsatisfactory" and in need of "significant improvement" by the education watchdog Estyn. The school has now substantially improved and is no longer requiring significant improvement. Willows High was featured in the Channel 4 documentary

Educating Cardiff ''Educating Cardiff'' is the fourth series of the British documentary television programme '' Educating'' broadcast on Channel 4. The eight-episode series was broadcast from 25 August 2015 to 13 October 2015. The documentary follows previous ins ...

in 2015. One of the primary schools across the road from STAR HYB is Baden Powell Primary with Mrs Gibbon as the head teacher.

Government

Cardiff Wales communities - Tremorfa post-2016 locator

In 2016 Tremorfa became one of four new

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in Cardiff, having previously been part of the

community. There is no

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for the area. The nearby area of Pengam Green, which is connected through Tremorfa Park, is classed as being part of the Tremorfa community.

Events

In December 2015, Christmas 'Pugfest' was held at Action Petz play centre in Tremorfa, with more than 1,500 visitors and around 400 pugs. It was one of the fun events for pugs set up nationally by Rob Clowes in memory of his dog, Poppy.Heledd Pritchard (13 December 2015
"The 11 most important pugs from Christmas Pugfest in Cardiffs"
''Wales Online''. Retrieved 9 April 2017. In 2017 Prince Harry and his now wife Megan Markle visited the star hyb, across the road from Baden Powell Primary School. Around 2000 people turned up just to see them pull up in the Range Rover Sport with an escort of Motorbikes and Police cars and secret service vehicles.

References

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