Cefn-Mawr sits along the Dee valley with the kind of streetscape that tells you industry built it and industry left it behind: terraced rows running close to the road, a scatter of semis climbing the hillside, and the Pontcysyllte aqueduct's presence never far from mind even if it's the World Heritage neighbour rather than the village's own front door. It's a working village rather than a commuter dormitory — the houses are modest, the population leans a little younger than the Welsh average at under 37, and there's nothing here dressed up for visitors. Housing is where the story is plainest: this is freehold territory almost entirely, dominated by semi-detached houses and terraces rather than flats, and the numbers back up what you'd guess from walking the streets — a median house price of £130,000 against a Welsh average north of £200,000, and prices running about 10% below the wider Wrexham county borough figure. A terraced house here typically sells for well under the Welsh median for terraces elsewhere. That affordability comes with context: Cefn-Mawr sits in the second decile for both deprivation and income in Wales, meaning it's among the less well-off areas nationally, and it's worth reading the low prices alongside that rather than as a standalone bargain. Schooling is entirely primary-phase locally — Ysgol Acrefair, Cefn Mawr CP School, Ysgol Min y Ddol and several smaller village schools serve the youngest children, with secondary provision and further transport links sitting outside the village itself; the 66 local stops suggest a place that runs on buses more than trains. Green space is genuinely abundant for a village this size — nearly 24 pockets of it, adding up to close to 29 hectares, which is a lot of breathing room relative to population, and it shows in the grade: environment comes out as the strongest mark in the whole profile, well above the norm. That's the Saturday shape here — valley walks and canal paths rather than a high street of cafés, because eating-out options aren't a defining feature of this data. The one grade that sits apart from the general "solidly average" B pattern is safety, and it's worth looking at squarely rather than glossing: crime here runs 85% higher than the Wrexham borough rate, with violence and anti-social behaviour together accounting for two-thirds of recorded incidents. That's the quiet spine of this profile — a place that reads as decent, connected, and green on almost every measure, but where the crime figures diverge sharply from the surrounding pattern and deserve a proper look rather than a shrug. Put together, Cefn-Mawr suits people who want space and valley scenery for very little outlay and don't need a station platform on their doorstep — it's a village for those already rooted in or drawn to this stretch of the Dee, not a staging post for a Wrexham or Chester commute. Anyone weighing it up should sit with the safety figures as carefully as the price tag, because on this data they're the one number that doesn't match the rest of the picture.