Buckley
TownTown in Flintshire, Wales.
Buckley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Buckley add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Buckley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Buckley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Buckley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Buckley at a rate of 66.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 110 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Buckley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (421), anti-social behaviour (168) and other crime (134).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Buckley was 73.5 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Buckley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Buckley has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Buckley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flintshire 012A | 1,716 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.4% |
| Flintshire 012B | 1,486 | 34.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.2% |
| Flintshire 013B | 1,656 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.0% |
| Flintshire 014C | 1,412 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.1% |
| Flintshire 017A | 1,672 | 149.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.2% |
| Flintshire 017B | 1,719 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Flintshire 017C | 1,418 | 110.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Flintshire 017D | 1,346 | 108.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Flintshire 017E | 1,660 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.0% |
Your MP
- Sir Mark TamiLabourMP for Alyn and Deeside
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Buckley1
Middle areas in Buckley1
Towns near Buckley6
Buckley in brief
Buckley is a town in Flintshire, Wales.
About 13,516 people lived in Buckley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £205,000 in 2025 across 209 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 66.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Buckley was £205,000 in 2025.
Buckley had 13,562 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Buckley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Buckley, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.