Mold
TownTown in Flintshire, Wales.
Mold is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Mold 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 Mold live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Mold compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Mold safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Mold at a rate of 107.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 87 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Mold.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (441), anti-social behaviour (225) and other crime (165).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Mold was 133.2 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 Mold, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Mold has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 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 Mold
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flintshire 016A | 1,604 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.0% |
| Flintshire 016B | 1,122 | 132.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.0% |
| Flintshire 016C | 1,958 | 259.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.2% |
| Flintshire 016D | 1,227 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
| Flintshire 016E | 1,603 | 16.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Flintshire 016F | 1,197 | 122.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 87.9% |
| Flintshire 016G | 1,437 | 130.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.3% |
Your MP
- Becky GittinsLabourMP for Clwyd East
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 Mold1
Middle areas in Mold1
Towns near Mold6
Mold in brief
Mold is a town in Flintshire, Wales.
About 10,015 people lived in Mold in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £217,500 in 2025 across 165 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 107.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Mold was £217,500 in 2025.
Mold had 9,890 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Mold live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Mold, 90.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.