Rhyl West
WardNorth west Denbighshire. About 5,302 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Rhyl West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rhyl West compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rhyl West safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rhyl West at a rate of 583.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 110.7 per 1,000 people across Denbighshire.
Across Wales as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.7 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 289 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rhyl West.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,141), anti-social behaviour (567) and other crime (518).
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 Denbighshire
These figures are published for the whole of Denbighshire, not for each ward, so they describe all of Denbighshire and not Rhyl West alone. See Denbighshire
Rhyl West in brief
Rhyl West had 4,911 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Rhyl West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rhyl West, 87.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Rhyl West, 11.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.