# Holyhead

Town in Isle of Anglesey, Wales.

Holyhead is a town in Isle of Anglesey, Wales. Median sale price £141,500 in 2025. Recorded crime 127.6 per 1,000 people. About 12,029 people.

Town. Code W45000016. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Isle of Anglesey](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £141,500** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Holyhead was £141,500 in 2025. 30th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/holyhead#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 11,753** (2021). Holyhead had 11,753 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 339th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/holyhead#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 80%** (2022). About 80% of people in Holyhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/holyhead#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 96.9%** (January 2026). In Holyhead, 96.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/holyhead#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=W45000016) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=W45000016) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 132 homes were sold in Holyhead in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=W45000016) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Holyhead.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=W45000016) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Holyhead had 11,753 usual residents at the census.

## How Holyhead compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Holyhead | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £141,500 | 8th cheapest | 76 towns, Wales · 2025 |
| Population | 11,753 | 28th least populated | 76 towns, Wales · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 80% | 22nd fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 76 towns, Wales · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 96.9% | joint 9th highest | 76 towns, Wales · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.

## Neighbourhoods in Holyhead

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Isle of Anglesey 003A](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey/neighbourhood/w01000016) | 1,194 | 309.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.5% |
| [Isle of Anglesey 003B](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey/neighbourhood/w01000017) | 1,683 | 120.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.7% |
| [Isle of Anglesey 003C](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey/neighbourhood/w01000029) | 1,609 | 171.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.8% |
| [Isle of Anglesey 003D](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey/neighbourhood/w01000030) | 2,325 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.3% |
| [Isle of Anglesey 003E](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey/neighbourhood/w01000033) | 1,557 | 123.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| [Isle of Anglesey 003F](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey/neighbourhood/w01000036) | 1,104 | 144.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.5% |
| [Isle of Anglesey 003G](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey/neighbourhood/w01000037) | 1,158 | 68.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| [Isle of Anglesey 004B](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey/neighbourhood/w01000034) | 1,448 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |

## Your MP

- [Ynys Môn](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/ynys-mon): Llinos Medi (Plaid Cymru), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Isle of Anglesey](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey)

## Postcode districts covering Holyhead

[LL65](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ll65)

## Middle areas in Holyhead

[Holyhead](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey/holyhead)

## Towns near Holyhead

[Caernarfon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/caernarfon), [Bangor](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bangor)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: W45000016
- Constituency: [Ynys Môn †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/ynys-mon)
- Council: [Isle of Anglesey †](https://openindex.co.uk/isle-of-anglesey)
- Nation: [Wales](https://openindex.co.uk/wales)
- Area: 4.18 km²
- People, mid-2024: 12,029*
- Neighbourhoods: 8
- Output areas: 38

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Caernarfon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/caernarfon), [Bangor](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bangor)

## Latest updates for Holyhead

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/W45000016

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/holyhead, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/holyhead#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/holyhead