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A village of 1,084 in Clwyd, Wales.
Holt has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Its strongest subject is safety (B+): 18.8 violent and sexual offences and 7.1 home and vehicle crimes per 1,000 residents a year, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. Its weakest is cost of living (C−): median sale £345,000, 7.9 years of area income; rent £770 a month.
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 3 things Holt 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 Holt is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists them inside Holt’s built-up area, along with 1 scheduled monument.
26% 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 Holt.
For Holt, that is above both Clwyd’s towns (23%) and Wales’s towns (21%). Children are 13% of the town. The median resident of Holt is 53.3 years old.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Holt | Clwyd | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 16% | 23% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 32% | 23% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 15% | 20% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 5.7% | 6.5% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 42% | 29% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Clwyd and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Its one school is below. Wales publishes no school-level results, so its schools have no letters.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holt's Community Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 68 | – |
Holt sits above both Clwyd’s towns (66%) and Wales’s towns (65%) on this measure. 8% of households live in social housing.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £388,750 | 26 |
| Semi-detached | £278,000 | 9 |
| Terraced | £213,000 | 9 |
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 35% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
That puts Holt below both Clwyd’s towns (39%) and Wales’s towns (41%). At the census, 9% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
On this, Holt is above both Clwyd’s towns (2%) and Wales’s towns (0%). For its size, Holt has 157 listed buildings per 10,000 residents. Holt’s listed buildings include Parish Church of St Chad, Grade I.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Police recorded 49 crimes inside Holt’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 8 reports of anti-social behaviour. Violence and sexual offences were 51% of the crimes; the police category includes harassment and stalking, so it runs higher than U.S. “violent crime”.
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
In the comparison, Holt comes below both Clwyd’s towns (6.5%) and Wales’s towns (7.1%). Holt has no GP practice of its own; the nearest is 3.9 miles away. These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy.
| Census 2021 | Holt | Clwyd | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 80% | 79% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.6% | 6.5% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 21% | 22% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holt | 1,084 | — | — | C− | B+ | B+ |
| Farndon | 2,227 | 0.7 | — | C− | A+ | A |
| Rossett | 1,977 | 3.4 | — | D | C+ | B+ |
| Gresford | 4,948 | 3.4 | A− | C− | A | B+ |
| Pentre Maelor | 1,814 | 3.4 | — | C+ | D− | C+ |
| Wrexham | 44,781 | 4.6 | D | B | D− | D |
| Marchwiel | 1,038 | 4.9 | — | B | B | C |
| Llay | 4,666 | 4.9 | D | C+ | C | C− |
Farndon, Rossett, Pentre Maelor and Marchwiel have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
17 on Cadw’s list, 1 of them Grade I and 1 Grade II*. That is 6.4 times the typical UK town for its size. Its Grade I building is Parish Church of St Chad. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
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Village in Clwyd, Wales
Holt is a built-up area of 1,084 people, in the Wrexham 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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