Flint
TownTown in Flintshire, Wales.
Flint is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Flint 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 98% of people in Flint live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Flint compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Flint safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Flint at a rate of 108.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 132 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Flint.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (447), anti-social behaviour (319) and shoplifting (295).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Flint was 104.6 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 Flint, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Flint has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Flint
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flintshire 004A | 2,176 | 182.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| Flintshire 004B | 1,272 | 468.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 73.3% |
| Flintshire 004C | 1,475 | 57.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Flintshire 004D | 2,707 | 72.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.0% |
| Flintshire 005A | 1,330 | 40.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.9% |
| Flintshire 005B | 1,323 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Flintshire 005C | 1,885 | 46.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.3% |
| Flintshire 005D | 1,568 | 29.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
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 Flint1
Middle areas in Flint2
Towns near Flint6
Flint in brief
Flint is a town in Flintshire, Wales.
About 13,121 people lived in Flint in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £172,250 in 2025 across 146 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 108.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Flint was £172,250 in 2025.
Flint had 12,776 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in Flint live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Flint, 94.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.