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A village of 1,030 in Clwyd, Wales.
Northop has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Its strongest subject is safety (A−): 18.1 violent and sexual offences and 4.2 home and vehicle crimes per 1,000 residents a year, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. Its weakest is walkability (D−): 5% of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport. The median home sold for £245,000 in the last three years, 5.3 times what households in the Flintshire council area earn in a year.
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 Northop 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 Northop is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists them inside Northop’s built-up area.
22% 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 Northop.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 32% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Among 16 to 64s, 1.1% claimed unemployment benefits in 2026. 25% of commuters travelled under 5 km, lower than both Clwyd’s towns (39%) and Wales’s towns (41%). At the census, nine in ten commuters went by car.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
It is listed below. The town’s primary school has 135 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ysgol Owen Jones C.P.Largest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 135 | – |
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Cadw’s list names 19 listed buildings in Northop: 1 Grade I, 3 Grade II*. The town’s listed buildings include the Church of St Eurgain and St Peter, Grade I. Scaled to its population, that is 184 listed buildings for every 10,000 people here.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Reported offences in Northop came to 41 over twelve months to August 2026; nuisance and anti-social incidents added 2. Anti-social behaviour, shown but not graded, came to 6.2 reports per 1,000, below both Clwyd’s towns (15.2) and Wales’s towns (10.4). Violence and sexual offences were just over two thirds of the crimes.
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.
4.5% of residents report bad or very bad health. At the census, 84% of people in Northop called their health good or very good, higher than both Clwyd’s towns (79%) and Wales’s towns (78%). There is no GP practice here: the nearest is 2.7 miles off.
| Census 2021 | Northop | Clwyd | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 84% | 79% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.5% | 6.5% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 16% | 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.
Social housing holds 9% of households. 11% rent privately, below Clwyd’s towns (17%) and Wales’s towns (17%) alike. Private rents average £811 a month across the Flintshire council area.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £352,500 | 22 |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | 7 |
| Terraced | £172,400 | 6 |
| Flat or maisonette | £161,000 | 6 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
38% of adults hold a degree. People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, above both Clwyd’s towns (23%) and Wales’s towns (21%). The share aged 15 to 24 is 10%. Northop has a median age of 50.9.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Northop | Clwyd | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 23% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 23% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 13% | 20% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.9% | 6.5% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 38% | 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 Northop. Best known first.
Castle · CadwCastell y Fflint4.1 km outside town, to the north
Castle · CadwCastell Ewloe3.7 km outside town, to the east
CastleHalkyn Castle3 km outside town, to the northwestCastleCastleHen Blas4.4 km outside town, to the northwestMuseumMuseumMold Library4.2 km outside town, to the southPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northop | 1,030 | — | — | B− | A− | B |
| Soughton | 1,697 | 1.3 | — | B− | A+ | B+ |
| Northop Hall | 1,826 | 1.8 | — | B− | A− | B+ |
| Flint | 12,776 | 2.4 | C− | A− | C− | D |
| Mynydd Isa | 4,738 | 2.8 | A− | B | A | B |
| Connah's Quay | 16,768 | 2.8 | C+ | B+ | C | C |
| Mold | 9,890 | 2.9 | C− | B+ | D | C− |
| Buckley | 13,562 | 3.5 | B− | B+ | C+ | C |
Soughton and Northop Hall have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
19 on Cadw’s list, 1 of them Grade I and 3 Grade II*. That is 7.6 times the typical UK town for its size. Its Grade I building is Church of St Eurgain and St Peter.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
Against all UK towns, it grades A−.
Village in Clwyd, Wales
Northop is a built-up area of 1,030 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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