Holyhead
TownTown in Isle of Anglesey, Wales.
Holyhead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Holyhead 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 80% of people in Holyhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Holyhead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Holyhead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Holyhead at a rate of 127.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 158 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Holyhead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (617), anti-social behaviour (345) and other crime (234).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Holyhead was 140.5 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 Holyhead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Holyhead has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Holyhead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Anglesey 003A | 1,194 | 309.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.5% |
| Isle of Anglesey 003B | 1,683 | 120.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.7% |
| Isle of Anglesey 003C | 1,609 | 171.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.8% |
| Isle of Anglesey 003D | 2,325 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.3% |
| Isle of Anglesey 003E | 1,557 | 123.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| Isle of Anglesey 003F | 1,104 | 144.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.5% |
| Isle of Anglesey 003G | 1,158 | 68.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Isle of Anglesey 004B | 1,448 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Llinos MediPlaid CymruMP for Ynys Môn
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 Holyhead1
Middle areas in Holyhead1
Towns near Holyhead2
Holyhead in brief
Holyhead is a town in Isle of Anglesey, Wales.
About 12,029 people lived in Holyhead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £141,500 in 2025 across 132 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 127.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Holyhead was £141,500 in 2025.
Holyhead had 11,753 usual residents at the census.
About 80% of people in Holyhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Holyhead, 96.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.