Wrexham
TownTown in Wrexham, Wales.
Wrexham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wrexham 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 Wrexham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wrexham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wrexham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wrexham at a rate of 155.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 754 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wrexham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,523), anti-social behaviour (1,265) and other crime (1,100).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wrexham was 159.4 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 Wrexham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wrexham has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Wrexham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrexham 008A | 1,976 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Wrexham 008B | 1,056 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.0% |
| Wrexham 008C | 1,524 | 621.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 61.1% |
| Wrexham 008D | 1,120 | 19.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wrexham 008E | 1,107 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Wrexham 008F | 2,141 | 62.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Wrexham 010C | 1,336 | 207.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Wrexham 010D | 1,217 | 111.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Wrexham 010E | 2,043 | 173.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.0% |
| Wrexham 010F | 2,265 | 132.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.6% |
| Wrexham 011A | 2,286 | 162.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.3% |
| Wrexham 011B | 1,825 | 391.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 58.8% |
| Wrexham 011C | 2,027 | 127.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| Wrexham 011D | 2,540 | 159.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 88.2% |
| Wrexham 012A | 1,107 | 103.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Wrexham 012B | 1,398 | 80.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 77.8% |
| Wrexham 012D | 2,214 | 165.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Wrexham 012E | 1,284 | 99.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.0% |
| Wrexham 012F | 1,189 | 135.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.7% |
| Wrexham 012G | 1,420 | 539.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 67.8% |
| Wrexham 022E | 1,310 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 79.1% |
| Wrexham 023A | 1,241 | 21.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wrexham 023B | 1,026 | 11.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| Wrexham 023C | 1,552 | 115.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.1% |
| Wrexham 023D | 1,175 | 24.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wrexham 023E | 1,535 | 101.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.6% |
| Wrexham 023F | 1,429 | 67.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.4% |
| Wrexham 023G | 1,937 | 130.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.9% |
Your MP
- Andrew RangerLabourMP for Wrexham
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 Wrexham3
Middle areas in Wrexham5
Towns near Wrexham6
Wrexham in brief
Wrexham is a town in Wrexham, Wales.
About 46,072 people lived in Wrexham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £195,000 in 2025 across 547 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 155.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wrexham was £195,000 in 2025.
Wrexham had 44,781 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Wrexham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wrexham, 89.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.