Prestatyn
TownTown in Denbighshire, Wales.
Prestatyn is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Prestatyn 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 58% of people in Prestatyn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Prestatyn compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Prestatyn safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Prestatyn at a rate of 83.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 119 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Prestatyn.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (556), anti-social behaviour (313) and other crime (196).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Prestatyn was 101.0 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 Prestatyn, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Prestatyn has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Prestatyn
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denbighshire 001A | 1,586 | 102.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 81.8% |
| Denbighshire 001B | 2,635 | 51.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.0% |
| Denbighshire 001C | 1,641 | 48.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Denbighshire 002A | 1,328 | 178.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Denbighshire 002B | 1,157 | 257.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.2% |
| Denbighshire 002C | 1,465 | 15.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Denbighshire 002D | 1,296 | 130.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Denbighshire 003A | 2,169 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Denbighshire 003B | 1,345 | 103.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| Denbighshire 003C | 1,788 | 21.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
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 Prestatyn1
Middle areas in Prestatyn3
Towns near Prestatyn6
Prestatyn in brief
Prestatyn is a town in Denbighshire, Wales.
About 16,544 people lived in Prestatyn in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £192,500 in 2025 across 319 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 83.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Prestatyn was £192,500 in 2025.
Prestatyn had 16,678 usual residents at the census.
About 58% of people in Prestatyn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Prestatyn, 96.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.