Cilcain
Village · 236 residents
55Good
Good · better than 2 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Affordability scores 77, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 73, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 42 per 1,000 people a year against 99
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Cilcain a good place to live?
Cilcain scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (77) and environment (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (30).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cilcain in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cilcain
Cilcain sits under Moel Famau, stone cottages and a handful of farms strung along lanes that were never built for through-traffic. You notice the quiet first — this is a village in the proper sense, a small cluster of houses rather than a place with a high street to speak of, and the sort of spot that attracts people who have already done the commuting years and are done with it.
The numbers back that up: a median age around 55, well above the Welsh average of 43, tells you this is a settled population rather than a young one climbing a career ladder. There's one school, Ysgol y Foel, a small community primary with around 30 pupils, and Nannerch nearby with a similar feel — both the kind of small rural school where your child is known by name rather than by class list, though neither carries a formal inspection grade in the data to hand. Public transport is thin on the ground, a single stop and no rail station listed, so this is a place you get to and from by car, not one built around a commute.
Housing here tells its own story: what sells is mostly detached and freehold, no new-build in the recent sample, and prices sit at a median of £510,000 — more than double the Flintshire figure and firmly in the upper end nationally for Wales. A "for sale" board in Cilcain is advertising space, land, and a stone farmhouse character rather than an easy first step onto the ladder. That fits the wider affluence picture too: this is among the least deprived areas in Wales on both income and general deprivation measures, which is part of why the price tag holds up despite the remoteness.