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A town of 12,776 in Clwyd, Wales.
Flint grades C− overall against UK towns: better than 24% of UK towns, and #19 of 39 in Clwyd. Its strongest subject is cost of living (A−): median sale £177,498, 3.8 years of area income; rent £811 a month. Its weakest is health (D): 6.7% in bad or very bad health, 20% disabled (adjusted for age in the grade).
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 Flint 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 Flint is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists 11 buildings inside Flint’s built-up area, and 2 scheduled monuments.
9% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
The archive holds 5 old photos and postcards going back to 1742 and a map from c. 1610.
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Flint. Best known first.
Castle · CadwCastell y Fflint100 m outside town, to the northeast
Abbey or priory · CadwBasingwerk Abbey4.4 km outside town, to the northwest
Castle · CadwCastell Ewloe4.8 km outside town, to the southeast
CastleHalkyn Castle2.7 km outside town, to the southwestCastleCastleHen Blas800 m outside town, to the northwestMuseumMuseumSt Winefride’s Well Museum4.7 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 Flint.
3 GP practices serve the town. The nearest A&E to Flint is Arrowe Park Hospital, 8.9 miles away. Also worth knowing: at the census, 80% of people in Flint called their health good or very good, near Clwyd’s towns (79%) and higher than Wales’s towns (78%).
| Census 2021 | Flint | Clwyd | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 80% | 79% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.7% | 6.5% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 20% | 22% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Census health answers are raw, so younger towns score better on them; for the Health Grade we use age-adjusted figures like life expectancy.
Three of them are below, each with the reason it’s listed. Flint’s four primaries and one secondary have 2,074 pupils between them.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gwynedd C.P. SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 500 | – |
| St Richard Gwyn Roman Catholic High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 774 | – |
| Ysgol Gymraeg Croes AttiLargest Welsh-medium schoolPrimary | Primary | 274 | – |
Violence and sexual offences were 41% of the crimes. Police recorded 1,152 crimes inside Flint’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 322 reports of anti-social behaviour. Violent crime ran at 40 per 1,000 residents a year, above both Clwyd’s towns (34.3) and Wales’s towns (33.8); what’s more, each year, 13.5 burglaries and acts of damage are recorded per 1,000 residents.
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 heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Homes from before 1919 make up 9% of the total, lower than both Clwyd’s towns (18%) and Wales’s towns (27%). 2 scheduled monuments lie in Flint.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
14% rent privately, below Clwyd’s towns (17%) and Wales’s towns (17%) alike. Behind the median of £177,498: 431 standard sales inside Flint’s built-up area, September 2023 to August 2026. Owners make up 63% of households.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £262,747 | 134 |
| Semi-detached | £162,500 | 203 |
| Terraced | £138,000 | 94 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 15% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Unemployment benefit claims reached 3.5% of 16 to 64s in 2026. Working mainly from home: 15% of workers, below both Clwyd’s towns (19%) and Wales’s towns (24%). Flint counts 0.8 jobs per working resident. Work in town: 21% of resident commuters.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
People aged 15 to 24 make up 11% of the town. 18% of residents are 65 or over, below Clwyd’s towns (23%) and Wales’s towns (21%) alike.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Flint | Clwyd | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 23% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 23% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 24% | 20% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.3% | 6.5% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 22% | 29% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Clwyd and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
11 listed buildings in Flint.
Palace Social Club (former Plaza Cinema): Photo: Dominic Nelson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Town Hall: Photo: Dominic Nelson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · St Mary Church: Photo: Dave Kelly · CC BY-SA 2.0 · War Memorial (CENOTAPH): Photo: Dominic Nelson · CC BY-SA 4.0
14 notable people were born in Flint.
Ian Puleston-Davies: Simon Richards, CC BY 3.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flint | 12,776 | — | C− | A− | C− | D |
| Northop | 1,030 | 2.4 | — | B− | A− | B |
| Pentre Halkyn | 1,082 | 2.7 | — | B+ | B | B |
| Bagillt | 5,943 | 3.2 | D | A− | C− | D |
| Northop Hall | 1,826 | 3.4 | — | B− | A− | B+ |
| Connah's Quay | 16,768 | 3.5 | C+ | B+ | C | C |
| Soughton | 1,697 | 3.8 | — | B− | A+ | B+ |
| Holywell | 7,741 | 4.3 | D | A− | D | D |
Northop, Pentre Halkyn, Northop Hall and Soughton have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
It has more crime per resident than most places its size: 69% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people report less.
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 £177,498, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £138,000, semi-detached houses £162,500 and detached houses £262,747.
Town in Clwyd, Wales
Flint is a built-up area of 12,776 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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