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Denbigh

Town

Town in Denbighshire, Wales.

Denbigh is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Denbigh 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 100% of people in Denbigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£185,000
Joint 161st cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
8,072
Joint 62nd least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
100%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
97.7%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Denbigh compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

DenbighMiddle
Median sale price76 towns, Wales · 2025
Median sale price: every town in Wales76 areas from £120,000 to £344,000. The middle area is £194,375. Denbigh is £185,000.
£185,000joint 32nd cheapest
Population76 towns, Wales · 2021
Population: every town in Wales76 areas from 7,546 to 348,511. The middle area is 13,457. Denbigh is 8,072.
8,0729th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares76 towns, Wales · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in Wales76 areas from 2.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 100.0%. Denbigh is 100.0%.
100%joint most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage76 towns, Wales · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in Wales76 areas from 55.2% to 99.0%. The middle area is 93.5%. Denbigh is 97.7%.
97.7%joint 6th highest

Is Denbigh safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Denbigh at a rate of 101.7 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.

In August 2026 alone, 79 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Denbigh.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (403), anti-social behaviour (164) and other crime (157).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Denbigh was 112.5 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 Denbigh, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Denbigh has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • 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 Denbigh

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Denbighshire 011A1,914138.5 per 1,000498.2%
Denbighshire 011B1,387133.5 per 1,000199.8%
Denbighshire 012A1,43933.1 per 1,0001099.6%
Denbighshire 012B1,40654.0 per 1,0001092.3%
Denbighshire 012C1,67738.6 per 1,000894.0%

Your MP

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 Denbigh1

Middle areas in Denbigh2

Towns near Denbigh6

Denbigh in brief

Denbigh is a town in Denbighshire, Wales.

About 8,470 people lived in Denbigh in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £185,000 in 2025 across 107 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 101.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Denbigh was £185,000 in 2025.

Denbigh had 8,072 usual residents at the census.

About 100% of people in Denbigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Denbigh, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.