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A village of 2,038 in Clwyd, Wales. 11 listed buildings, 0 of them Grade I.
Dyserth has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Its strongest subject is cost of living (B+): median sale £220,000, 5 years of area income; rent £718 a month. Its weakest is hazard risk (D): 5.5% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
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 2 things Dyserth 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 Dyserth is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists them inside Dyserth’s built-up area.
17% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Dyserth. Best known first.
Castle · CadwRhuddlan Castle3.2 km outside town, to the west
CathedralSt Asaph Cathedral4.2 km outside town, to the southwest
Castle · CadwTwthill Castle3.1 km outside town, to the west
Historic houseBodrhyddan Hall900 m outside town, to the west
CastlePrestatyn Castle3.8 km outside town, to the northMuseumMuseumRhyl Museum4.6 km outside town, to the northwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dyserth.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 23% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
By car: that was how 88% of commuters travelled at the census. Household income came to £50K a year before tax, above both Clwyd’s towns (£45K) and Wales’s towns (£44K). About 2% of its commuters stay in Dyserth for work. There are 0.4 jobs in Dyserth for each resident in work.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
It appears below. 223 pupils attend Dyserth’s one primary school.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ysgol HiraddugLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 223 | – |
Dyserth has no GP practice of its own; the nearest is 2.5 miles away. Life expectancy here is 82.1 for women and 80 for men (2019–23). Also worth knowing: the nearest A&E to Dyserth is Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, 3.9 miles away.
| Census 2021 | Dyserth | Clwyd | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 79% | 79% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.9% | 6.5% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 23% | 22% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Self-reported health favours young towns, since these answers ignore age; the Health Grade leans on age-adjusted measures such as life expectancy.
Social housing holds 10% of households, lower than both Clwyd’s towns (16%) and Wales’s towns (18%). Private tenants account for 15% of households. 76 standard sales inside Dyserth’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 put the median at £220,000.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £300,000 | 34 |
| Semi-detached | £215,000 | 31 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 9 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to Clwyd’s towns (18%) and below Wales’s towns (27%). Cadw’s list names 11 listed buildings in Dyserth: 4 Grade II*. Relative to its size, Dyserth keeps 54 listed buildings per 10,000 residents.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Violence and sexual offences made up 63% of the total. Violent crime ran at 27.3 per 1,000 residents a year, below Clwyd’s towns (34.4) and Wales’s towns (33.8) alike. Dyserth logged 95 reported offences in a year (to August 2026), plus 17 complaints of anti-social conduct.
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.
A third of adults hold a degree. People 65 and over make up nearly a quarter of the town, close to Clwyd’s towns (23%) and above Wales’s towns (21%). Dyserth has a median age of 48.9. Those aged 15 to 24 account for 12% of residents.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Dyserth | Clwyd | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 23% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 23% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 16% | 20% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.3% | 6.5% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 33% | 29% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Clwyd and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
3 notable people were born in Dyserth.
John Houghton: No machine-readable author provided. Kaihsu assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 · John Roberts: John Roberts (missionary), Public domain
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dyserth | 2,038 | — | — | B+ | B− | C |
| Meliden | 2,002 | 1.3 | — | A− | C | C |
| Rhuddlan | 3,791 | 2.1 | C+ | B+ | C | C+ |
| Prestatyn | 16,678 | 2.5 | C− | A− | C− | C− |
| Rhyl | 26,982 | 2.9 | D | A− | D− | D− |
| St Asaph | 3,483 | 3.1 | C− | B− | C− | C− |
| Bodelwyddan | 1,785 | 4.3 | — | B | D− | C |
| Kinmel Bay | 9,016 | 4.5 | D− | B− | D− | D− |
Meliden and Bodelwyddan have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
11 on Cadw’s list, 4 of them Grade II*. That is 2.2 times the typical UK town for its size.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £220,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £150,000, semi-detached houses £215,000 and detached houses £300,000.
Village in Clwyd, Wales
Dyserth is a built-up area of 2,038 people, in the Denbighshire 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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