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3,045 people call this town in Gwynedd, Wales home.
Low prices, and some weak spots to weigh against them. Its strongest is cost of living (A−): homes sell for a median £223,250, about 5 times local household income. With a B overall, Menai Bridge is better than just over three fifths of UK towns and ranks #2 of 13 in Gwynedd. It is easy to get around without a car: 17% of commuters get to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. Safety lags: 31.5 violent or sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year, plus 11.9 home and vehicle crimes. Set beside UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, its crime per resident is higher than in 73%. The local economy is weaker than most: the mean household earns £49,808 a year.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · commuting, Census 2021 · crime, police.uk, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026 · 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 Menai Bridge 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 Menai Bridge is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Cadw lists 28 buildings inside Menai Bridge’s built-up area, 2 of them Grade II*.
24% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
The archive holds 4 old photos and postcards going back to 1826.
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Menai Bridge. Best known first.
MuseumThomas Telford Centrein town
CathedralBangor Cathedral2.1 km outside town, to the east
Castle · National TrustPenrhyn Castle4.3 km outside town, to the east
GardenTreborth Botanic Garden600 m outside town, to the south
PierGarth Pier2.5 km outside town, to the east
Historic housePlas Cadnant300 m 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 Menai Bridge.
Typical age in Menai Bridge: 47.3, the median. Under 15: 14% of residents. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 11% of residents, below Gwynedd’s towns (13%) and Wales’s towns (12%) alike. Those 65 and older account for 24% of residents.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Menai Bridge | Gwynedd | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 23% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 13% | 18% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 4.9% | 6.1% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 17% | 19% | 17% |
| Degree level | 45% | 32% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Gwynedd and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Between them, one primary and one secondary teach 1,315 pupils in Menai Bridge. Every one of them is shown below.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ysgol Gynradd y BorthLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 192 | – |
| Ysgol David HughesLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,123 | – |
Menai Bridge is the second most expensive of the 13 towns in Gwynedd, at £223,250. Half of the 112 standard sales inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 went for more than £223,250. Private rents average £714 a month across the Isle of Anglesey council area.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £347,500 | 36 |
| Semi-detached | £205,000 | 37 |
| Terraced | £198,500 | 25 |
| Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | 14 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Menai Bridge counts 28 listed buildings on the national list (Cadw): 2 Grade II*. Homes from before 1919 make up 24% of the total, below Gwynedd’s towns (40%) and Wales’s towns (27%) alike. It has 92 listed buildings for every 10,000 residents.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
193 crimes and 38 reports of anti-social behaviour: that is what police recorded inside Menai Bridge’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026. Violence and sexual offences accounted for 50% of recorded crime. Anti-social behaviour, shown but not graded, came to 14.2 reports per 1,000, lower than Gwynedd’s towns (16.3) yet higher than Wales’s towns (10.4).
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.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 24% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
For every resident in work, Menai Bridge has 0.9 jobs. Work in town: 13% of resident commuters. The next most common way to work was walking (12%).
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
Menai Bridge has no GP practice of its own; the nearest is 1.2 miles away. A disability affects nearly a fifth of people here. 82% of the town’s residents described their health as good or very good at the census, higher than both Gwynedd’s towns (80%) and Wales’s towns (78%).
| Census 2021 | Menai Bridge | Gwynedd | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 80% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.5% | 5.5% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 19% | 20% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · These shares come straight from the census, without allowing for age, and young towns benefit; the Health Grade instead weighs age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy.
28 listed buildings in Menai Bridge.
Capel Mawr Presbyterian Chapel: Photo: Reading Tom from Reading, UK · CC BY 2.0 · The Cambria: Photo: Huwpritchard · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Princes Pier Wharf: Photo: Huwpritchard · CC BY-SA 3.0 · St. Mary's Church: Photo: Monsyn · CC BY-SA 4.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menai Bridge | 3,045 | — | B | A− | C | B |
| Bangor | 16,994 | 1.4 | C | A− | D | D |
| Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll | 2,905 | 1.4 | B+ | B | A− | B+ |
| Y Felinheli | 2,333 | 3.6 | — | B+ | B− | B− |
| Beaumaris | 1,120 | 3.8 | — | B− | C | C+ |
| Tregarth | 1,252 | 4.2 | — | B | A+ | C+ |
| Gaerwen | 1,277 | 4.4 | — | A | B− | B− |
| Bethel | 1,091 | 4.6 | — | B | A | B− |
Y Felinheli, Beaumaris, Tregarth, Gaerwen and Bethel have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
28 on Cadw’s list, 2 of them Grade II*. That is 3.8 times the typical UK town for its size.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
Town in Gwynedd, Wales
Menai Bridge is a built-up area of 3,045 people, in the Isle of Anglesey 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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