Erlas Hall
Suburb · 33 residents
56Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Environment scores 83, well above the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 72, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 21% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Erlas Hall a good place to live?
Erlas Hall scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (83) and food & drink (72).
It scores lowest on health (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Erlas Hall in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Erlas Hall
Erlas Hall is detached houses on quiet roads, the kind of place where a for-sale board sits outside a driveway rather than a terrace front door. Thirteen recent sales here were almost all detached homes, all freehold, and that pattern alone tells you what kind of buyer this suburb pulls in: people who've traded up and plan to stay, not first-time buyers chasing a bargain flat. With a population of around 320 spread thinly across the area, and a median age into the low forties, this reads as settled, established, unhurried.
The money side of that picture is straightforward: a median sale price of £340,000 sits well above both the Welsh average and the wider Wrexham figure, meaning a move here costs a real premium over the county it sits in. Detached homes locally are trading above the Welsh detached average too, so you're not just paying suburb prices for suburb space — you're paying a bit more again for this particular patch. On schooling there's less to go on beyond St Paul's Voluntary Aided, a small primary serving the immediate community rather than a catchment-wide draw, so families weighing this move will want to look at options across the wider Wrexham area rather than relying on what's on the doorstep.
Green space comes as one large area of nearly 45 hectares, which for a suburb of this size is a generous ratio — room to walk a dog or let children range without crossing into a different postcode for it. What's harder to square is the safety picture: the overall grade sits at a solid, unremarkable B, safety itself scores the same, and the crime trend is reported flat rather than improving — yet the raw comparison to Wrexick as a whole shows a sharply elevated rate against the council-wide figure, driven almost entirely by violence and sexual offences, which account for nearly half of all recorded incidents. That's the one figure in this file that doesn't match the rest of the tone, and it's worth sitting with rather than skating past: a low crime count in absolute terms can still represent a rate well above the surrounding borough when the population base is this small. Broadband is solid, with full-fibre reaching most premises, which matters more than it used to now that working from one of these detached houses is entirely plausible.