Holyhead
WardWest Birmingham. About 11,773 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 96% of people in Holyhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Holyhead compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Holyhead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Holyhead at a rate of 138.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 124.6 per 1,000 people across Birmingham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 115 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Holyhead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (786), other crime (290) and vehicle crime (134).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Birmingham
These figures are published for the whole of Birmingham, not for each ward, so they describe all of Birmingham and not Holyhead alone. See Birmingham
Holyhead in brief
Holyhead had 11,315 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Holyhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Holyhead, 99.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Holyhead, 17.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.