Drury
Village · 1,499 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 37 per 1,000 people a year against 99
- Affordability scores 74, well above the typical 60
- 75% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 10, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 14, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Drury
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Drury a good place to live?
Drury scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81) and affordability (74).
It scores lowest on health (10) and food & drink (14).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Drury in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Drury
Drury sits just off the main road between Mold and Buckley, and the giveaway is in the driveways: detached houses with room for two cars, hedges kept trim, not much passing trade. It's the kind of village people move to rather than pass through, and the housing stock tells you who's already there — settled, comfortably off, in no hurry to leave.
That comfort shows up squarely in the numbers. Drury ranks among the least deprived parts of Wales on both income and general deprivation, and the typical house here sells for around £294,000 — well above the Welsh median and about 45% higher than the Flintshire average, in a county where £202,500 is closer to the norm. Every recorded sale in the local sample was freehold, and detached homes dominate outright, which is the classic pattern of a village built for families upgrading rather than first-time buyers getting a foot on the ladder. Renting here runs slightly above the Welsh average too, another marker of a place with little churn — turnover sits below 1.5% a year, so homes don't come up often. On schooling, Drury Primary School serves the village directly, a small community school with around 140 pupils, while the larger Mountain Lane Primary sits close by for those who want more scale; Wales doesn't use Ofsted grades, so you're better off judging on class sizes and the feel of open days than a headline rating.
Where the picture gets more interesting is safety. Drury scores well across almost every category the data offers — affordability, environment, housing, even schools all land comfortably above the Welsh average, and the crime trend itself is described as improving. But the raw crime rate sits nearly 95% higher than the Flintshire average, driven overwhelmingly by violence and sexual offences, which account for more than half of all recorded incidents. That's a single, striking outlier against an otherwise settled, well-off village profile, and it's worth sitting with rather than skating past — it may reflect how a small population makes percentages swing hard on modest incident counts, but it's the one data point that doesn't match the rest of the story here.