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A village of 1,787 in Dyfed, Wales.
St Clears 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 £210,000, 4.9 years of area income; rent £687 a month. Its weakest is jobs & income (C−): mean household income £42,654; 2.1% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits.
Dyfed Powys Police published 32 of the 36 months; rates are per year over the months published. 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 St Clears 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 St Clears is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists them inside St Clears’ built-up area, along with 2 scheduled monuments.
29% 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 St Clears.
Police recorded 144 crimes inside St Clears’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 23 reports of anti-social behaviour. Violence came to 40.9 per 1,000 residents a year, close to Dyfed’s towns (38.9) and above Wales’s towns (33.8). Violence and sexual offences were 57% of the crimes; the police category includes harassment and stalking.
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
One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed. Wales publishes no school-level results, so its schools have no letters.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ysgol Griffith JonesLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 297 | – |
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
St Clears sits above both Dyfed’s towns (0%) and Wales’s towns (0%) on this measure. St Clears has 16 listed buildings on Cadw’s list: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II*. For its size, St Clears has 90 listed buildings per 10,000 residents.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 26% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
That puts St Clears below both Dyfed’s towns (41%) and Wales’s towns (41%). At the census, 11% 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
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £310,000 | 23 |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | 35 |
| Terraced | £195,000 | 9 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
On this, St Clears is below both Dyfed’s towns (7.4%) and Wales’s towns (7.1%). The nearest A&E to St Clears is Glangwili General Hospital, 9.7 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 | St Clears | Dyfed | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 80% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.5% | 7.4% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 21% | 23% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL
In the comparison, St Clears comes below both Dyfed’s towns (12%) and Wales’s towns (12%). 19% of residents are children under 15. The median resident of St Clears is 43 years old.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| St Clears | Dyfed | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 22% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 24% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 20% | 19% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.4% | 6.1% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 31% | 30% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Dyfed and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near St Clears. Best known first.
Castle · CadwCastell Talacharn4.9 km outside town, to the southeast
MuseumDylan Thomas Boathouse4.9 km outside town, to the southeast
MuseumTin Shed Experience4.5 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Clears | 1,787 | — | — | B+ | C− | C+ |
| Whitland | 1,907 | 4.9 | — | B | C− | C+ |
| Carmarthen | 16,448 | 8.3 | C− | B+ | D− | C− |
| Kidwelly | 2,761 | 10 | C− | A− | C− | C− |
| Narberth | 2,365 | 11 | — | B+ | C | C+ |
| Kilgetty | 1,247 | 11 | — | B− | B | C+ |
| Saundersfoot | 2,515 | 12 | D | C | C | C+ |
Whitland, Narberth and Kilgetty have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
16 on Cadw’s list, 1 of them Grade II*. That is 3.7 times the typical UK town for its size. It also has 2 scheduled monuments.
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 £210,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £195,000, semi-detached houses £210,000 and detached houses £310,000.
Village in Dyfed, Wales
St Clears is a built-up area of 1,787 people, in the Carmarthenshire 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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