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With 12,789 residents, it is a town in Clwyd, Wales.
Rhosllannerchrugog’s overall grade of C− puts it better than 15% of UK towns, #29 of 39 in Clwyd. Health lags: 7.4% of residents report bad or very bad health, and 23.3% are disabled. It also trails on jobs & income — households earn a mean £42,854 a year, and 3.1% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Cost of living is its strong suit (B+) — the median home sold for £160,000, 3.6 years of area income.
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 3 things Rhosllannerchrugog 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 Rhosllannerchrugog is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Cadw lists 12 buildings inside Rhosllannerchrugog’s built-up area, 1 of them Grade II*, and 1 scheduled monument.
23% 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 Rhosllannerchrugog. Best known first.
CathedralWrexham Cathedral3.5 km outside town, to the northeast
Historic house · National TrustErddig Hall1.9 km outside town, to the northeast
Historic houseTrevor Hall3.4 km outside town, to the southwest
Historic housePen-y-Lan Hall4.5 km outside town, to the southeastMuseumMuseumXplore! Science Discovery Centre3.8 km outside town, to the northeastArt galleryArt galleryTŷ Pawb3.8 km outside town, to the northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Rhosllannerchrugog.
2 GP practices serve the town. 23% of residents have a disability, higher than both Clwyd’s towns (22%) and Wales’s towns (22%). The nearest A&E to Rhosllannerchrugog is Wrexham Maelor Hospital, 3.2 miles away.
| Census 2021 | Rhosllannerchrugog | Clwyd | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 77% | 79% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.4% | 6.5% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 23% | 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.
Between them, four primaries and one secondary teach 1,627 pupils in Rhosllannerchrugog. Below are three of them, each with why it was picked. Three of them are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ysgol Yr HafodLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 346 | – |
| Ysgol-Y-GrangoLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 580 | – |
| Ysgol HoosonLargest Welsh-medium schoolPrimary | Primary | 228 | – |
A year of reports to August 2026 adds up to 872 offences in Rhosllannerchrugog and 180 cases of nuisance behaviour. Violent crime ran at 38.7 per 1,000 residents a year, above both Clwyd’s towns (34.3) and Wales’s towns (33.8). Also worth knowing: 49% of the crimes fell under violence and sexual offences. For its size, Rhosllannerchrugog records more crime per resident than 70% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
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.
Households that own their home make up 59%. Rhosllannerchrugog is the second cheapest of the 39 towns in Clwyd, at £160,000. Behind the median of £160,000: 395 standard sales inside the town’s built-up area, September 2023 to August 2026.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £210,000 | 91 |
| Semi-detached | £165,500 | 172 |
| Terraced | £125,000 | 117 |
| Flat or maisonette | £111,000 | 15 |
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 13% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
86% of commuters drove, above Clwyd’s towns (83%) and Wales’s towns (81%) alike. Working from home was the norm for 13% of workers at the census. Jobs per working resident: 0.4.
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.
Grade II* covers 1 of them. Rhosllannerchrugog has one scheduled monument. Nearly a quarter of homes were built before 1919.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
People 65 and over make up a fifth of the town, below Clwyd’s towns (23%) and close to Wales’s towns (21%). The share of residents under 15 is 18%. At 41.5, the median resident of Rhosllannerchrugog sits in the middle of the age range. 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Rhosllannerchrugog | Clwyd | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 23% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 23% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 23% | 20% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.1% | 6.5% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 25% | 29% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Clwyd and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
12 listed buildings in Rhosllannerchrugog.
Bethlehem Independent Chapel: Photo: GeraintTudur2 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Church of Saint John Evangelist: Photo: Thomas Penson · Public domain · War Memorial: Photo: Craggyisland · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Church of St Thomas: Photo: John Haynes · CC BY-SA 2.0
19 notable people were born in Rhosllannerchrugog.
Mark Lewis Jones: Actor, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Meredith Edwards: TV episode screenshot (ABC), Public domain · Susan Elan Jones: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0 · Caradog Roberts: Issued as a postcard in 1915, Public domain · Aled Roberts: National Assembly for Wales from Wales, CC BY 2.0 · Daniel Lloyd: Misswales2009, CC BY-SA 3.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhosllannerchrugog | 12,789 | — | C− | B+ | C− | D |
| Ruabon | 3,414 | 1.4 | C− | B+ | D | C |
| Rhostyllen | 2,760 | 2.1 | C | B | C | C |
| Acrefair and Cefn-mawr | 6,905 | 2.3 | D | B+ | D | D |
| Trevor | 1,397 | 2.9 | — | B− | B− | C− |
| Coedpoeth | 4,738 | 3.3 | C | B | C+ | C− |
| Tanyfron | 2,229 | 3.9 | — | B | B | C |
| Brynteg | 9,229 | 3.9 | C− | B+ | C− | D |
Trevor and Tanyfron have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
12 on Cadw’s list, 1 of them Grade II*. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £160,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: flats £111,000, terraced houses £125,000, semi-detached houses £165,500 and detached houses £210,000.
Town in Clwyd, Wales
Rhosllannerchrugog is a built-up area of 12,789 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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