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People

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138,245

Resident population · 2024

1.9%

Population change · 2022 to 2024

About the same as Wales

Wales 1.7%

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Resident population Estimated usual resident population (mid-year estimate).	Office for National Statistics Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2024	Wrexham (Council area)	aggregated, high quality
Population change 2022 to 2024 (%) Percentage change between mid-2022 (revised) and mid-2024.	Office for National Statistics Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2022-2024	Wrexham (Council area)	aggregated, high quality

Method: Mid-year population estimates

ONS mid-year estimates are modelled from the 2021 Census, births, deaths and migration. Mid-2022 is the revised series. Ages are grouped: 0-15 means ages 0 to 15 inclusive, working age 16-64, 65 and over. Change 2022-2024 compares the revised mid-2022 with mid-2024 estimates for the same boundaries. Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-year estimates for council areas published by ONS from National Records of Scotland and NISRA (via Nomis), for 2022 to 2024, to match the England and Wales years. No small-area (ward or neighbourhood) estimates are held for them.

Homes

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£200,000

Median sale price · Year to Oct 2025

7% lower than Wales

Wales £215,000

5.3%

Change in median sale price · Year to Oct 2025 vs a year earlier

2.9 percentage points higher than Wales

Wales 2.4%

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Median sale price Median price of homes sold in the 12-month period (needs 10+ sales).	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)	Year to Oct 2025	Wrexham (Council area)	aggregated, high quality
Change in median sale price over a year Percentage change in the median between consecutive 12-month windows. Not mix-adjusted.	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)	Year to Oct 2025 vs Year to Oct 2024	Wrexham (Council area)	aggregated, high quality

Method: Price paid medians

Sales are mapped from postcode to each geography exactly. The headline is the median sale price over the latest 12 COMPLETE months (a month is complete when national standard sales are at least 85% of the average of the 24 months before it; currently November 2024 to October 2025) and the 12 months before that. Months after that (Nov 2025 onward in the April 2026 extract) are still being registered and are excluded. Yearly medians use complete calendar years 2016-2024. Medians need at least 10 sales; sales counts are published for any area. Medians describe homes that sold, not all homes, and are not adjusted for the mix of property types, so a change in the median can reflect what was sold. Registration lags completion, so recent months can be revised up. Only standard price paid sales (category A) are included.

Education

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29.1%

Adults with a degree-level qualification or above · 2021

2.5 percentage points lower than Wales

Wales 31.5%

20.9%

Adults with no qualifications · 2021

1 percentage points higher than Wales

Wales 19.9%

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Adults with a degree-level qualification or above Share of usual residents aged 16 and over whose highest qualification is Level 4 (degree level) or above (Census 2021).	Office for National Statistics Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualification Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2021	Wrexham (Council area)	direct, high quality
Adults with no qualifications Share of usual residents aged 16 and over with no qualifications (Census 2021).	Office for National Statistics Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualification Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2021	Wrexham (Council area)	direct, high quality

Method: Census 2021 housing, health and qualifications for Wales

Wales held its census on the same day as England (21 March 2021) with the same questions, so the figures are directly comparable. For Wales we use the published local authority tables. Tenure counts shared ownership with owners; "private rented" includes people who live rent free, as in the England figures. Overcrowding is an occupancy rating of -1 or less for bedrooms. Qualifications are for people aged 16 and over; "no qualifications" and "Level 4 or above" (degree level and above) are shares of all those people. Counts are rounded by random adjustment, so tiny differences from other tables are expected. Wales households per local authority are not split to small areas here.

Economy

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£694

Median weekly pay, full-time employees living here · 2025

4% lower than Wales

Wales £719

62,000

Jobs located in the area · 2024

More jobs per head than Wales here 0.73

Wales 0.69

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Median gross weekly pay, full-time employees living here Median gross weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area (ASHE, place of residence). Cash terms, not inflation adjusted.	Office for National Statistics Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), via Nomis: tables 7 (place of work) and 8 (place of residence) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2025	Wrexham (Council area)	direct, medium quality Coefficient of variation 5.1%.
Jobs located in the area (BRES employment) Employees plus working owners at workplaces in the area (BRES). Rounded; place of work, not residence.	Office for National Statistics Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), open access, via Nomis Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2024	Wrexham (Council area)	direct, high quality Rounded by ONS. Compared through jobs per working-age resident (2024): Wales 0.69, here 0.73.

Method: Earnings from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

ASHE is a 1% sample of employee jobs from HMRC PAYE records, with a reference week in April. We hold the median gross pay of full-time employees, by place of residence (where the employee lives) and by place of work (where the job is), for the latest survey year and the years back to 2015. Median weekly pay is gross pay before tax for the pay period that includes the reference date; annual pay is gross annual pay for the year to April. Pay is in cash terms: it is not adjusted for inflation, so changes over time include price rises. Survey estimates have a margin of error that grows as areas get smaller; each value carries its coefficient of variation and values with a CV above 10% are marked low quality. Estimates ONS judges too unreliable (CV above about 40%) are not published and appear here as absent. Self-employed people are not covered. Residence-based figures describe people who live in the area wherever they work; workplace-based figures describe jobs located in the area wherever the employee lives. The two can differ a lot in commuter areas and city centres.

Method: Employment by industry (BRES)

BRES is the official source of employee and employment estimates by detailed industry and area. Employment is employees plus working owners, counted at the place of work and in the survey week in September. It covers all sectors except small farm agriculture, and the self-employed who are not registered for PAYE or VAT. ONS rounds BRES employment and suppresses small cells, so industry sums may not add to the total. Jobs here are not residents: people may live elsewhere. Part-time and full-time jobs count equally (they are not full-time equivalents).

Community

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80.7 per 1,000

Recorded crime per 1,000 residents · Year to Apr 2026

19% higher than Wales

Wales 67.6 per 1,000

302

Charities registered here · Oct 2026

Fewer than Wales here 2.2 per 1,000

Wales 2.5 per 1,000

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Recorded crime (excluding anti-social behaviour) per 1,000 residents police.uk crime categories except anti-social behaviour, 12 months, per 1,000 residents.	Police forces of England and Wales via data.police.uk Street-level crime (12 monthly files) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	Year to Apr 2026	Wrexham (Council area)	aggregated, high quality 12 months to April 2026. 0.0% of North Wales Police records have no location and are excluded.
Charities based in the area Registered charities whose registered address is in the area.	Charity Commission for England and Wales; OSCR (Scotland); Charity Commission for Northern Ireland Registers of charities (registered address, latest income, charitable purposes) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI terms apply: not the register itself, no direct marketing)	Oct 2026	Wrexham (Council area)	aggregated, medium quality By registered address. Counts charities by their registered contact address (often a trustee or a head office), not where they work. England and Wales register only. Compared through charities based per 1,000 residents (Oct 2026): Wales 2.5 per 1,000, here 2.2 per 1,000.

Method: Recorded street crime per 1,000 residents

Counts of crimes in police.uk street-level data for May 2025 to April 2026, matched to 2021 LSOAs by the LSOA code on each record, then split to output areas by population and rolled up (see the area apportioning method). Rates are crimes per 1,000 residents (mid-2024 population) and describe where crimes were recorded, not who committed them or where victims live. High rates occur where many non-residents pass through (town centres, transport hubs, nightlife), so they are not a measure of risk to residents. Crimes with no location (blank LSOA) are excluded; the excluded share by force is in the notes. Greater Manchester Police data are absent from the extract, so those areas have no value. Categories follow police.uk. Anti-social behaviour is incident data, not crime proper, and is included only in the "all categories" rate. 12 months only: no trend is possible and seasonal effects are included.

Method: Charities in an area

A charity is placed by the postcode of its registered/contact address (or the nearest postcode to its geocoded address; some are placed by the nearest postcode to a geocoded address), so counts show where charities are based, not where they work: a national charity with a London address is counted in London. Income is the latest annual income on the register, summed; it is dominated by a few very large charities. "Declaring the area" counts charities that name the local authority (or its county) as an area of operation on the register; it does not mean services are delivered everywhere in that area. Registered charities only; unregistered community groups, small charities below the registration threshold and removed charities are not counted.

The future

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60.6%17.1%21.2%

A small part 60.6%
Some 17.1%
Much 21.2%
Not yet assessed 1.1%

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Homesmedium confidence

Decrease between Year to Mar 2025 and Year to Mar 2026: Planning applications decided in the year

Planning applications decided in the year in Wrexham went from 536 (Year to Mar 2025) to 394 (Year to Mar 2026): down 26.5%.

394 here536 same place, Year to Mar 2025

How do we know this?

Source

Welsh Government: Development management quarterly survey (January to March 2026 and January to March 2025 editions) (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

Year to Mar 2026

Geography

Council area, compared with same place, Year to Mar 2025

Method

Planning application decisions. Local planning authorities report to government every quarter how many applications for planning permission (district matters: housing, commercial and other development, excluding minerals and waste) they decided, how many they granted and refused, and how many were decided within the statutory time or an agreed extension. We add the four most recent complete quarters (July 2025 to June 2026) and compare with the four before. Percentage granted is granted divided by all decisions, which includes applications withdrawn only if reported as decided; it is a measure of the mix of applications a council receives, not of how fair or permissive it is, because many applications are refused for good reason or amended before decision. Speed is the share decided in time among decisions not covered by a planning performance agreement, shown separately for major developments (10 or more homes, or sites over 1 hectare) and for minor and other applications. Few major decisions are made each year in most authorities, so major-development figures rest on small numbers. National Park authorities and development corporations are separate planning authorities and are not included in the council totals. Wales (Welsh Government development management survey): major plus minor and householder applications over April 2025 to March 2026, summed from four quarterly returns; other consents, pre-application cases and non-material amendments are excluded. "Decided in time" covers all applications and consents decided within the statutory period or an agreed extension. Denbighshire did not supply data. Scotland (Scottish Government annual planning statistics): all applications decided in the financial year 2024/25 (the 2025/26 annual release is not yet out); the share approved is of all applications decided; "local developments decided within two months" and average weeks are for local developments without a processing agreement. Northern Ireland (Department for Infrastructure): applications received and decided by each council in 2025/26, and the share approved of those decided. Each nation counts and classifies applications differently, so the figures describe each nation's own system and should not be compared across borders.

Limitations

Major plus minor and householder applications, four quarters.
Covers the 12-month window Year to Mar 2026 only.

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Homeshigh confidence

Higher than Wales: Change in the typical home sale price over a year

Change in the typical home sale price over a year is 5.3% in Wrexham (Year to Oct 2025 vs Year to Oct 2024), compared with 2.4% in Wales (2.9 percentage points higher).

5.3% here2.4% Wales

How do we know this?

Source

HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A) (Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright))

Period

Year to Oct 2025 vs Year to Oct 2024

Geography

Council area, compared with Wales

Method

Price paid medians. Sales are mapped from postcode to each geography exactly. The headline is the median sale price over the latest 12 COMPLETE months (a month is complete when national standard sales are at least 85% of the average of the 24 months before it; currently November 2024 to October 2025) and the 12 months before that. Months after that (Nov 2025 onward in the April 2026 extract) are still being registered and are excluded. Yearly medians use complete calendar years 2016-2024. Medians need at least 10 sales; sales counts are published for any area. Medians describe homes that sold, not all homes, and are not adjusted for the mix of property types, so a change in the median can reflect what was sold. Registration lags completion, so recent months can be revised up. Only standard price paid sales (category A) are included.

Limitations

Covers the 12-month window Year to Oct 2025 vs Year to Oct 2024 only.

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Economymedium confidence

Higher than Wales: Change in dissolutions on the prior 12 months

Change in dissolutions on the prior 12 months is 6.6% in Wrexham (Year to 1 Nov 2026 vs Year to 1 Nov 2025), compared with -31.1% in Wales (37.7 percentage points higher).

6.6% here-31.1% Wales

How do we know this?

Source

Companies House: Dissolved companies: advanced search API (one query per dissolution day since 2010), topped up from the live streaming feed; incorporations from the register snapshot of 2 Oct 2026 (to confirm (Companies House API terms; the register data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0))

Period

Year to 1 Nov 2026 vs Year to 1 Nov 2025

Geography

Council area, compared with Wales

Method

Company dissolutions and net formation. Dissolutions are companies Companies House records as dissolved, counted on the dissolution date and located by the postcode of the registered office held at dissolution. That address is often an accountant, formation agent or liquidator, not where the company traded, so it says where a company was registered, not where a business closed. Every dissolution day since 1 January 2010 was fetched one day at a time and checked: the number of companies stored equals the number the register reports for that day. The latest window is the 365 days ending the latest complete day; the prior window is the 365 days before it; annual figures are complete calendar years. The route to dissolution (strike-off, end of liquidation, merger) is not recorded, so dissolutions are not split. Net formation = companies incorporated in the period (all that were ever registered in it, whether or not they have since been dissolved) minus companies dissolved in the period. The two groups are different companies and are located by different addresses, current for companies still on the register and last held for dissolved ones. Net formation compares registered offices, not jobs, trading or business closures.

Limitations

Registered offices are not operating locations; many companies are registered at an agent or accountant address.
Registered-office events are not new local employers, closures or job changes.

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Economymedium confidence

Increase between 2022 and 2025: Median weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area

Median weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area in Wrexham went from £620 (2022) to £694 (2025): up 12% (not adjusted for inflation), compared with up 19.0% in Wales.

£694 here£620 same place, 2022

How do we know this?

Source

Office for National Statistics: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), via Nomis: tables 7 (place of work) and 8 (place of residence) (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

2025

Geography

Council area, compared with same place, 2022

Method

Earnings from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. ASHE is a 1% sample of employee jobs from HMRC PAYE records, with a reference week in April. We hold the median gross pay of full-time employees, by place of residence (where the employee lives) and by place of work (where the job is), for the latest survey year and the years back to 2015. Median weekly pay is gross pay before tax for the pay period that includes the reference date; annual pay is gross annual pay for the year to April. Pay is in cash terms: it is not adjusted for inflation, so changes over time include price rises. Survey estimates have a margin of error that grows as areas get smaller; each value carries its coefficient of variation and values with a CV above 10% are marked low quality. Estimates ONS judges too unreliable (CV above about 40%) are not published and appear here as absent. Self-employed people are not covered. Residence-based figures describe people who live in the area wherever they work; workplace-based figures describe jobs located in the area wherever the employee lives. The two can differ a lot in commuter areas and city centres.

Limitations

Coefficient of variation 5.1%. Coefficient of variation 4.5%.
Prices are nominal and not adjusted for inflation or for changes in the mix of homes sold.

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Peoplemedium confidence

Wide range between wards in Wrexham: Residents aged 65 and over

Residents aged 65 and over (2024) varies within Wrexham: from 9.7% in Queensway to 38.6% in Borras Park, across 49 wards. The upper tenth of wards is 17.9 percentage points above the lower tenth.

Borras Park figure

38.6% Borras Park9.7% Queensway

How do we know this?

Source

Office for National Statistics: Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024) (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

2024

Geography

Ward, compared with lowest-value ward (Queensway)

Method

Mid-year population estimates. ONS mid-year estimates are modelled from the 2021 Census, births, deaths and migration. Mid-2022 is the revised series. Ages are grouped: 0-15 means ages 0 to 15 inclusive, working age 16-64, 65 and over. Change 2022-2024 compares the revised mid-2022 with mid-2024 estimates for the same boundaries. Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-year estimates for council areas published by ONS from National Records of Scotland and NISRA (via Nomis), for 2022 to 2024, to match the England and Wales years. No small-area (ward or neighbourhood) estimates are held for them.

Limitations

This figure is an estimate; see the methodology.
Ward and neighbourhood boundaries differ in size; the range shows variation within the area, not a ranking of places.

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The futurehigh confidence

Residents working in manufacturing

15.8% of employed residents of Wrexham work in manufacturing, compared with 7.3% in England and Wales (Census 2021, by where residents live, not where the business is). Market exposure for this sector is not yet assessed.

15.8% here7.3% England and Wales

How do we know this?

Source

not recorded

Period

Census 2021 (21 March 2021)

Geography

Council area, compared with England and Wales

Method

Compared with the same measure for the comparison geography.

Limitations

Industry of the main job of residents in March 2021; not the location of businesses.
Describes composition only; it says nothing about the future of the sector.

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Recent dated records tied to this place. They are events, not judgements.

30 Oct 2026
Company incorporated New company registered: Day to Day Cleaners Liverpool LimitedRegistered office here, which is not necessarily where it operates
30 Oct 2026
Company incorporated New company registered: Pointer Engineering Solutions LtdRegistered office here, which is not necessarily where it operates
29 Oct 2026
Company incorporated New company registered: Hham Holdings LimitedRegistered office here, which is not necessarily where it operates
28 Oct 2026
Company incorporated New company registered: Side&co LtdRegistered office here, which is not necessarily where it operates

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Sources used on this page

Charity Commission for England and Wales; OSCR (Scotland); Charity Commission for Northern Ireland: Registers of charities (registered address, latest income, charitable purposes)Period: CCEW extract 4 Oct 2026; OSCR 7 Oct 2026 · Published: 4 Oct 2026 · Coverage: United Kingdom (registered charities) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI terms apply: not the register itself, no direct marketing)
Police forces of England and Wales via data.police.uk: Street-level crime (12 monthly files)Period: May 2025 to Apr 2026 · Published: Jun 2026 · Coverage: England and Wales except Greater Manchester Police (no data in the loaded files); Northern Ireland records have no LSOA · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A)Period: sales to 31 Mar 2026 · Published: Apr 2026 · Coverage: England and Wales · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)
Office for National Statistics: Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024)Period: mid-2022 (revised), mid-2023, mid-2024 · Published: 7 Nov 2025 · Coverage: England and Wales (LSOA 2021) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), open access, via NomisPeriod: employment in September 2024 (2015 to 2024 held) · Published: Oct 2025 · Coverage: Great Britain: local authorities, parliamentary constituencies (2024), MSOAs (England and Wales), countries · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), via Nomis: tables 7 (place of work) and 8 (place of residence)Period: survey year 2025 (April 2025 reference week); 2015 to 2025 held · Published: Oct 2025 · Coverage: Great Britain local authorities (April 2023 boundaries), regions and countries; Northern Ireland not held · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Welsh Government: Development management quarterly survey (January to March 2026 and January to March 2025 editions)Period: April 2025 to March 2026 (four quarters) and April 2024 to March 2025 · Published: 28 Jul 2026 (v2) · Coverage: Welsh local planning authorities: 21 of the 22 councils (Denbighshire did not supply data to the survey). National Park authorities are separate planning authorities and are not added to council figures. No Wales total is shown because Denbighshire and Snowdonia National Park did not report · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualificationPeriod: 21 March 2021 · Published: 2023 · Coverage: Local authorities of Wales (22) and Wales; qualifications also for England and its local authorities · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Companies House: Companies House streaming API (live), combined with the basic company data snapshot of 2 Oct 2026Period: incorporations to 1 Nov 2026 (stream timepoint 121116481, newest event published 2 Nov 2026T04:06:53) · Published: 2 Nov 2026 · Coverage: UK companies (registered office postcode)
Companies House: Dissolved companies: advanced search API (one query per dissolution day since 2010), topped up from the live streaming feed; incorporations from the register snapshot of 2 Oct 2026Period: dissolutions 2 Nov 2024 to 1 Nov 2026; annual series 2010 to 2025 · Published: 2 Nov 2026 · Coverage: UK companies (registered office postcode)

Registered offices are not operating locations. Ranks and deciles are never averaged. Census 2021 figures are labelled 2021.