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The town, home to 16,768 people, lies in Clwyd, Wales.
What it saves you on housing, it gives back elsewhere. Health is its weak spot: 5.3% in bad or very bad health, 17.4% disabled. Overall, Connah's Quay earns a C+: better than 36% of UK towns, and #12 of 39 in Clwyd. Jobs and pay trail most towns (C): households earn a mean £45,127 a year, and 3.2% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Buying a home costs less than in most towns: a typical home costs £195,000 and rent runs £811 a month.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · health, Census 2021 (the grade adjusts for age) · income, ONS · claimants, DWP.
This town's Health Grade uses ONS's small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for 2019 to 2023, and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. English towns' grades also use OHID's small-area early deaths, hospital admissions and child obesity, which OHID publishes for England only.
The thing Connah's Quay does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Wales), ordered by how far Connah's Quay is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists 10 buildings inside Connah's Quay’s built-up area, and 1 scheduled monument.
9% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Connah's Quay.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Nearly a tenth of its homes were built before 1919, below both Clwyd’s towns (18%) and Wales’s towns (27%). One scheduled monument lies in Connah's Quay. Per 10,000 residents, Connah's Quay counts 6 listed buildings.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Two of them are below, each with the reason it’s listed. Between them, four primaries and one secondary teach 2,359 pupils in Connah's Quay.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golftyn C.P. SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 376 | – |
| Connah's Quay High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,014 | – |
At the census, just over four fifths of people in Connah's Quay called their health good or very good, higher than both Clwyd’s towns (79%) and Wales’s towns (78%). The nearest A&E to Connah's Quay is The Countess of Chester Hospital, 7 miles away. 3 GP practices serve the town. Men in Connah's Quay can expect to live to 77.9, women to 82.4 (2019–23).
| Census 2021 | Connah's Quay | Clwyd | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 79% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.3% | 6.5% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 17% | 22% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · The census answers take no account of age, so a young town looks healthier; the Health Grade relies on age-adjusted measures, life expectancy among them.
Private renters make up 14% of households, below Clwyd’s towns (17%) and Wales’s towns (17%) alike. 593 standard sales inside Connah's Quay’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 put the median at £195,000. It is the 22nd most expensive of 39 towns of 2,500+ in Clwyd.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £256,250 | 220 |
| Semi-detached | £182,500 | 260 |
| Terraced | £144,000 | 100 |
| Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | 13 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Violence and sexual offences accounted for 48% of recorded crime. Police recorded 1,126 crimes inside Connah's Quay’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 291 reports of anti-social behaviour. Anti-social behaviour, shown but not graded, came to 16.4 reports per 1,000, higher than both Clwyd’s towns (15) and Wales’s towns (10.4).
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 17% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
The car took 85% of commuters, above Clwyd’s towns (83%) and Wales’s towns (81%) alike. About 13% of its commuters stay in Connah's Quay for work. There are 0.5 jobs in Connah's Quay for each resident in work.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
Children under 15 count for 18% of the people here. The middle age in Connah's Quay is 40.4. 18% of residents are 65 or over. Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over one in ten residents, above Clwyd’s towns (10%) but below Wales’s towns (12%).
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Connah's Quay | Clwyd | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 23% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 23% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 20% | 20% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.8% | 6.5% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 24% | 29% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Clwyd and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Connah's Quay. Best known first.
Castle · CadwCastell Ewloe400 m outside town, to the south
Castle · CadwCastell y Fflint3.2 km outside town, to the northwest
CastleOld Hawarden Castle3.8 km outside town, to the southeast
CastleHawarden Castle3.9 km outside town, to the southeastMuseumMuseumBuckley Library3.8 km outside town, to the southZooZooGreenacres Animal Park2.3 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
10 listed buildings in Connah's Quay.
Church of St Mark: Photo: Phil Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0 · War Memorial: Photo: Pete Rigby · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kelsterton Hall: Photo: John Haynes · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · The Ship Public House: Photo: Pete Rigby · CC BY-SA 4.0
11 notable people were born in Connah's Quay.
Drew Parker: Hirondon, CC BY-SA 4.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connah's Quay | 16,768 | — | C+ | B+ | C | C |
| Shotton | 6,500 | 1.1 | C | A− | D | D |
| Northop Hall | 1,826 | 1.4 | — | B− | A− | B+ |
| Aston | 2,847 | 1.6 | A− | B | B+ | B |
| Hawarden | 14,284 | 2.3 | B | B | B− | C+ |
| Garden City | 2,427 | 2.4 | — | B− | D− | D |
| Northop | 1,030 | 2.8 | — | B− | A− | B |
| Buckley | 13,562 | 3.1 | B− | B+ | C+ | C |
Northop Hall, Garden City and Northop have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £195,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: flats £82,500, terraced houses £144,000, semi-detached houses £182,500 and detached houses £256,250.
Against all UK towns, most of them smaller, it grades C.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
Town in Clwyd, Wales
Connah's Quay is a built-up area of 16,768 people, in the Flintshire council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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