Rhyl
TownTown in Denbighshire, Wales.
Rhyl is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rhyl 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 2% of people in Rhyl live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rhyl compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rhyl safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rhyl at a rate of 198.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 540 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rhyl.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,354), anti-social behaviour (992) and other crime (891).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rhyl was 192.6 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 Rhyl, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rhyl has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Rhyl
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denbighshire 004A | 1,540 | 123.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 45.1% |
| Denbighshire 004B | 1,485 | 48.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.5% |
| Denbighshire 004C | 1,627 | 152.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.4% |
| Denbighshire 004D | 1,720 | 273.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.3% |
| Denbighshire 004E | 1,670 | 1,035.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 80.8% |
| Denbighshire 004F | 1,524 | 373.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.3% |
| Denbighshire 006A | 1,997 | 232.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.4% |
| Denbighshire 006B | 1,773 | 211.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.0% |
| Denbighshire 006C | 1,796 | 104.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| Denbighshire 017A | 1,332 | 98.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Denbighshire 017B | 1,636 | 67.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Denbighshire 017C | 1,304 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Denbighshire 017D | 1,335 | 45.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.9% |
| Denbighshire 017E | 1,537 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Denbighshire 017F | 1,920 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.9% |
| Denbighshire 017G | 2,298 | 101.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Gill GermanLabourMP for Clwyd North
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 Rhyl1
Middle areas in Rhyl3
Towns near Rhyl6
Rhyl in brief
Rhyl is a town in Denbighshire, Wales.
About 27,875 people lived in Rhyl in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £171,000 in 2025 across 337 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 198.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rhyl was £171,000 in 2025.
Rhyl had 26,982 usual residents at the census.
About 2% of people in Rhyl live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rhyl, 85.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.