Colwyn Bay
TownTown in Conwy, Wales.
Colwyn Bay is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Colwyn Bay 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 Colwyn Bay live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Colwyn Bay compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Colwyn Bay safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Colwyn Bay at a rate of 126.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 329 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Colwyn Bay.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,579), anti-social behaviour (749) and other crime (566).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Colwyn Bay was 136.4 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 Colwyn Bay, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Colwyn Bay has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Colwyn Bay
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conwy 003A | 1,411 | 61.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.3% |
| Conwy 004A | 1,409 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.3% |
| Conwy 004B | 1,486 | 149.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.0% |
| Conwy 004C | 1,428 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.3% |
| Conwy 004D | 1,560 | 102.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.9% |
| Conwy 007A | 1,628 | 129.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.5% |
| Conwy 007B | 1,577 | 140.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Conwy 007C | 1,676 | 420.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.3% |
| Conwy 007D | 2,077 | 209.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.3% |
| Conwy 008A | 1,942 | 98.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.0% |
| Conwy 008B | 1,298 | 93.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.8% |
| Conwy 008C | 1,497 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Conwy 008D | 1,463 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Conwy 008E | 1,467 | 68.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.4% |
| Conwy 009A | 1,684 | 112.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.0% |
| Conwy 009B | 1,372 | 112.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 87.6% |
| Conwy 009C | 1,503 | 120.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.9% |
| Conwy 009E | 1,384 | 164.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.5% |
| Conwy 011C | 2,005 | 98.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.9% |
Your MP
- Gill GermanLabourMP for Clwyd North
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 Colwyn Bay2
Middle areas in Colwyn Bay4
Towns near Colwyn Bay6
Colwyn Bay in brief
Colwyn Bay is a town in Conwy, Wales.
About 28,998 people lived in Colwyn Bay in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £221,500 in 2025 across 506 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 126.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Colwyn Bay was £221,500 in 2025.
Colwyn Bay had 29,273 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Colwyn Bay live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Colwyn Bay, 93.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.