Neighbourhoods in Flintshire
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20 neighbourhoods · 92 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Queensferry & Sandycroft | £662 | +4.1% | 80 | 74 |
| Flint North East | £666 | +4.1% | 84 | 18 |
| Connah's Quay North | £674 | +4.1% | 70 | 29 |
| Holywell & Bagillt | £687 | +4.1% | 48 | 53 |
| Shotton & Garden City | £700 | +4.1% | 74 | 18 |
| Buckley South | £702 | +4.1% | 81 | 53 |
| Flint South West | £706 | +4.1% | 93 | 79 |
| Mostyn & Holway | £743 | +4.1% | 28 | 43 |
| Connah's Quay Wepre | £746 | +4.1% | 78 | 78 |
| Gronant, Ffynnongroyw & Trelawnyd | £758 | +4.1% | 27 | 42 |
| Broughton & Saltney | £786 | +4.1% | 74 | 77 |
| Mold | £789 | +4.1% | 34 | 13 |
| New Brighton & Mynyddisa | £792 | +4.1% | 79 | 89 |
| Buckley North, Northop & Sychdyn | £825 | +4.1% | 70 | 90 |
| Connah's Quay South & Northop Hall | £833 | +4.1% | 80 | 91 |
| Hope | £839 | +4.1% | 91 | 81 |
| Leeswood, Treuddyn & Gwernaffield | £845 | +4.1% | 52 | 94 |
| Pen-y-ffordd & Higher Kinnerton | £867 | +4.1% | 83 | 92 |
| Caerwys, Halkyn & Nannerch | £896 | +4.1% | 24 | 80 |
| Ewloe & Hawarden | £904 | +4.1% | 66 | 85 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Flintshire
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Flintshire. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Flintshire median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Flintshire.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Flintshire
Crime in Flintshire runs at 46% below the national average. Above median (#100 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 53.8, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Flintshire
Distribution of Ofsted ratings amongst schools serving this council area.
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Flintshire
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Flintshire
Flintshire has 0.45 jobs per resident locally. Above median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Flintshire
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Flintshire?
- The median monthly rent across Flintshire is £778, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Flintshire?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Flintshire by estimated median rent is Queensferry & Sandycroft at approximately £662/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Flintshire?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Flintshire is Flint South West at 93/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Flintshire a safe area?
- Flintshire has an average safety score of 63/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is the average salary in Flintshire?
- The median annual resident salary in Flintshire is £32,675, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Flintshire, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Flintshire?
- The average property price in Flintshire is approximately £210,195 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Flintshire?
- Gross rental yield in Flintshire is approximately 4.2% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Flintshire?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 3.2 years in Flintshire. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Flintshire?
- 100% of premises in Flintshire are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Flintshire?
- 3.0% of 16-64 residents in Flintshire are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Flintshire?
- Flintshire contains 20 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 92 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
- How does Flintshire compare to other UK areas?
- Flintshire's average liveability score is 61/100. To compare it side-by-side with another local authority, use the comparison tool at /compare. To see how every council area in Wales ranks across rent, safety, schools and transport, see /gb/wales.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Flintshire
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Flintshire 015E
- Flintshire 004A
- Flintshire 015C
- Flintshire 008E
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- Flintshire 016C
- Flintshire 011B
- Flintshire 005C
- Flintshire 013E
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- Flintshire 007D
- Flintshire 003E
- Flintshire 016A
- Flintshire 019A
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- Flintshire 009D
- Flintshire 019C
- Flintshire 015A
- Flintshire 017E
- Flintshire 001A
- Flintshire 008D
- Flintshire 009C
- Flintshire 011A
- Flintshire 005D
- Flintshire 016E
- Flintshire 004C
- Flintshire 007A
- Flintshire 013A
- Flintshire 003B
- Flintshire 003A
- Flintshire 004D
- Flintshire 010B
- Flintshire 002B
- Flintshire 013C
- Flintshire 013B
- Flintshire 014C
- Flintshire 002A
- Flintshire 009A
- Flintshire 002C
- Flintshire 012A
- Flintshire 019B
- Flintshire 014D
- Flintshire 006D
- Flintshire 020A
- Flintshire 003F
- Flintshire 018B
- Flintshire 017D
- Flintshire 015D
- Flintshire 011C
- Flintshire 008A
- Flintshire 017C
- Flintshire 016B
- Flintshire 020D
- Flintshire 008C
- Flintshire 003D
- Flintshire 006A
- Flintshire 010A
- Flintshire 006E
- Flintshire 013D
- Flintshire 003C
- Flintshire 001C
- Flintshire 015F
- Flintshire 019D
- Flintshire 017A
- Flintshire 012D
- Flintshire 016F
- Flintshire 010D
- Flintshire 012B
- Flintshire 018A
- Flintshire 020B
- Flintshire 008B
- Flintshire 004B
- Flintshire 010C
- Flintshire 015B
- Flintshire 009E
- Flintshire 014A
- Flintshire 020C
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