Carmel

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 11° / 7° · 44% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:18Sunset 16:42

9h 24m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wrexham, United Kingdom

7 reported · August 2026▲ 600% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour2
• Violence & sexual offences2
• Criminal damage & arson1
• Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Talysarn · North Wales

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

105 reported road collisions (2025)

59 killed or seriously injured · 166 casualties · 8.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

40 food businesses within 2 miles

• 39 rated 4–5 ★ (34 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Dinas (4.0 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£203,555 average▲ 4.1% YoY

Across Gwynedd · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£724 average monthly rent▲ 6.9% YoY

• 1 bed £559
• 2 bed £676
• 3 bed £804

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

5.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.9 times median annual pay (5.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

4 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Pant du (2.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

117,393 residents in Gwynedd · 46/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,067
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,098
• Net moves−31

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

Less deprived than the average in Wales

3% of neighbourhoods are in Wales’s most deprived 10%; 5% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019

Property band mix

Most homes here are Band B (25% of 62,370)

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

Liz Saville Roberts

Plaid Cymru

Dwyfor Meirionnydd

Source: UK Parliament

Plaid Cymru majority

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

• Parks & greens2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,715 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£669 median full-time weekly pay

2.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,785 disposable income per head (2024)

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

26% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 58,824 certificates

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics

53% low-carbon electricity

Gas 45% · Wind 31% · Nuclear 22% · Imports 2%

179 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

1 GP surgery · 1 pharmacy in LL54

• Corwen House

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dwyfor Meirionnydd:

• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks283 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Introduce legislation to make it possible to renumerate emergency volunteers175 local signatures · 13,821 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately148 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills130 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Ban on sale of disposable BBQs128 local signatures · 22,327 nationwide

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

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  Carmel, Gwynedd · 0.2 km

  Carmel is a small village near Y Fron in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The village is built up mainly of Victorian homes, with a more modern area. The village contains a number of chapels, which are gradually closing dow…

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  Cilgwyn quarry · 1.4 km

  Cilgwyn quarry is a slate quarry located on the north edge of the Nantlle Valley, in North Wales. It is one of the earliest slate quarries in Great Britain, having been worked as early as the 12th century. King Edward…

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  Y Fron · 1.4 km

  Y Fron, also known locally as Cesarea, after the chapel, is a country village on the south-west side of Moel Tryfan, overlooking the Nantlle Valley, in North Wales, near Rhosgadfan and Carmel, on the tail of Mynydd Ma…

• Bryngwyn railway station · 1.5 km

  Bryngwyn railway station is a former station which was the terminus for passengers on the Bryngwyn Branch of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways, and later the Welsh Highland Railway. Beyond the station, an incline…

• Ysgol Bronyfoel · 1.5 km

  Ysgol Bronyfoel was a Welsh daily co-educational primary school. The school was situated in the centre of the village Y Fron, Gwynedd, North Wales. It opened in 1844 and was greatly enlarged at the end of the 19th cen…

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  Pen-yr-Orsedd quarry · 2.0 km

  Pen-yr-Orsedd quarry was a slate quarry in the Nantlle Valley in North Wales. It was one of the last slate quarries operating in North Wales and the last operating in the Nantlle Valley area, finally closing in 1979.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)