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Bodelwyddan

Bodelwyddan is a village in Clwyd, Wales, with a population of around 1,794. It has 1 pharmacy, around 5 restaurants and cafés, 6 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Central Station, 4.9 km away. There were around 25 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Bodelwyddan area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Denbighshire area is around the average in Wales (WIMD 2019). The wider council area has around 95,817 residents at roughly 114 people per km².

Council
Denbighshire
County
Clwyd
Constituency
Vale of Clwyd
Police force
North Wales

Weather

8°COvercast

  • Today: 11° / 5° · 38% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 4° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:16Sunset 16:38

9h 22m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

12US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Wirral Tranmere, United Kingdom

Crime

30 reported · August 2026▲ 58% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences14
  • Anti-social behaviour6
  • Public order4
  • Criminal damage & arson3

2 stop & searches · mostly offensive weapons

Neighbourhood team: Bodelwyddan · North Wales

Local policing priorities

  • Rhyl Town Centre
  • Retail crime: Marina Quay

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

85 reported road collisions (2025)

42 killed or seriously injured · 127 casualties · 8.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

49 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 45 rated 4–5 ★ (40 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Central Station (4.9 km)
  • 6 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Rhyl (5.4 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£207,130 average▲ 5.2% YoY

Across Denbighshire · to 2026-08

Detached£276,886
Semi-detached£189,599
Terraced£153,981
Flat£98,224

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£718 average monthly rent▲ 6.2% YoY

  • 1 bed £549
  • 2 bed £707
  • 3 bed £811

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

5.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.9 times median annual pay (5.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 141.8p · AppleGreen (3.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 146.8p · AppleGreen (3.3 km)

6 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

18 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 120 kW
  • Nearest: EG Kinmel Park East (1.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches6
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

95,817 residents in Denbighshire · 114/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 58%
  • 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK4,666
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK3,823
  • Net moves+843

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Around the average in Wales

12% of neighbourhoods are in Wales’s most deprived 10%; 16% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019

Council tax

Property band mix

Most homes here are Band C (32% of 46,650)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27 · £ figures England only

Your MP

Gill German

Labour

Clwyd North

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour / Plaid Cymru coalition

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens17
  • Restaurants & cafés8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,460 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

41 jobs advertised · £46,204 avg

e.g. Engineering Stores Lead, Support Medical Secretary, Bar Team Member

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£660 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,623 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

31% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 49,783 certificates

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics

Grid electricity

55% low-carbon electricity

Gas 42% · Nuclear 31% · Wind 23% · Imports 3%

167 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.6
  • Happiness yesterday7.3
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

12 GP surgeries · 13 pharmacies in LL18

  • Gp Central Ooh Service
  • C & D Ooh Centre
  • Substance Misuse Service

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Clwyd North:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Glan Clwyd Hospital · 0.2 km

    Glan Clwyd Hospital is a hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales. It is managed by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

  • Bodelwyddan · 0.2 km

    Bodelwyddan is a village, electoral ward and community in Denbighshire, Wales, approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Rhyl. The parish includes several smaller hamlets such as Marli and Little Pengwern.

  • Marble Church, Bodelwyddan · 0.5 km

    St Margaret's Church, Bodelwyddan, nicknamed the Marble Church, is a Decorated Gothic Style parish church in the lower Vale of Clwyd in Denbighshire, Wales and is visible for many miles because its spire rises to 202…

  • Faenol Fawr, Bodelwyddan · 0.6 km

    Faenol Fawr is an Elizabethan H-plan mansion with crow-stepped gables. The house is situated immediately to the north of Glan Clwyd Hospital in the parish of Bodelwyddan in the historic county of Flintshire, but now i…

  • Bodelwyddan Castle · 1.0 km

    Bodelwyddan Castle, close to the village of Bodelwyddan, near Rhyl, Denbighshire in Wales, was built around 1460 by the Humphreys family of Anglesey as a manor house. It was associated with the Williams-Wynn family fo…

  • Kinmel Park Training Area · 2.1 km

    Kinmel Park Training Area is an army training ground in what was once the grounds of Kinmel Hall, near Abergele, in Conwy county borough, Wales. The camp was built in 1915 to train troops during the First World War an…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Bodelwyddan?
Bodelwyddan is a town in Clwyd, Wales, in the Denbighshire local authority.
What is the population of Bodelwyddan?
Bodelwyddan has an approximate settlement population of 1,794.
How deprived is Bodelwyddan?
The Denbighshire local authority, which includes Bodelwyddan, is around the average in Wales on the WIMD 2019.