Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
58% of households own their home with no mortgage. Some 1,013 people live in this village, in Dyfed, Wales.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: a typical home costs £214,000 and rent runs £694 a month. Its weakest is jobs & income (D): mean household income £43,163; 3.4% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for safety, B− for health and B− for walkability. It lags on hazard risk as well: 4.3% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · income, ONS · claimants, DWP · crime, police.uk, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026 · health, Census 2021 (the grade adjusts for age) · commuting, Census 2021 · flood risk, Natural Resources Wales. An overall grade needs 2,500 residents, so St Dogmaels is graded subject by subject only.
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 Dogmaels 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 Dogmaels is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
An overall grade needs 2,500 residents, so St Dogmaels is graded subject by subject only.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Cadw lists them inside St Dogmaels’ built-up area, along with 1 scheduled monument.
59% 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 Dogmaels.
One measure of family life: 14% of residents are under 15. 7.6% of the population is aged 15 to 24, below both Dyfed’s towns (12%) and Wales’s towns (12%). Half of St Dogmaels is older than 55.7, half younger. Graduates make up just over two in five adults.
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| St Dogmaels | Dyfed | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.6% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 16% | 22% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 24% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 19% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 4.7% | 6.1% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 41% | 30% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Dyfed and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
It is listed below. 77 pupils attend St Dogmaels’s one primary school.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St DogmaelsLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 77 | – |
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Nearly three in five homes were built before 1919. St Dogmaels’s listed buildings include Ruins of Abbey of St Mary, Grade I. It has 247 listed buildings for every 10,000 residents, above both Dyfed’s towns (32) and Wales’s towns (18). At the top of the list, 1 are Grade I and 2 Grade II*.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
6% of households rent from a council or housing body. 76 standard sales inside St Dogmaels’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 put the median at £214,000.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £291,400 | 25 |
| Semi-detached | £193,175 | 24 |
| Terraced | £190,000 | 27 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
St Dogmaels logged 59 reported offences in a year (to August 2026), plus 3 complaints of anti-social conduct. Each year, 7.4 burglaries and acts of damage are recorded per 1,000 residents. There were 2.6 anti-social behaviour reports per 1,000 residents (not graded), lower than both Dyfed’s towns (6.9) and Wales’s towns (10.4). Also worth knowing: 46% of the crimes fell under violence and sexual offences.
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.
79% of St Dogmaels’ residents described their health as good or very good at the census, above both Dyfed’s towns (77%) and Wales’s towns (78%). Seeing a GP means leaving St Dogmaels: the nearest practice is 0.9 miles away. At the census, 5.8% of people here described their health as bad or very bad.
| Census 2021 | St Dogmaels | Dyfed | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 79% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.8% | 7.4% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 22% | 23% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 33% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Jobs per working resident: 0.4. 33% of workers worked mainly from home, higher than both Dyfed’s towns (20%) and Wales’s towns (24%). About 8% of its commuters stay in St Dogmaels for work.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near St Dogmaels. Best known first.
Abbey or priory · CadwSt Dogmaels Abbeyin town
CastleCardigan Castle800 m outside town, to the east
Castle · CadwCastell Cilgerran / Cilgeran Castle3.5 km outside town, to the southeastAttractionAttractionY Felinin townArt galleryArt galleryVlad-Art Gallery900 m outside town, to the eastMuseumMuseumCastle Green House800 m outside town, to the eastPhotos: 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 Dogmaels | 1,013 | — | — | B | B− | B− |
| Cardigan | 3,767 | 1.1 | D | B− | D− | D |
| Aberporth | 1,075 | 6.9 | — | C+ | C− | C− |
| Newcastle Emlyn | 1,842 | 9.5 | — | B+ | D | C |
Aberporth and Newcastle Emlyn have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
25 on Cadw’s list, 1 of them Grade I and 2 Grade II*. That is 10.1 times the typical UK town for its size. Its Grade I building is Ruins of Abbey of St Mary. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
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 £214,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £190,000, semi-detached houses £193,175 and detached houses £291,400.
Village in Dyfed, Wales
St Dogmaels is a built-up area of 1,013 people, in the Pembrokeshire 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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