Flint Mountain
Village · 679 residents
66Good
Good · better than 8 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
- Schools scores 76, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 74, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 47 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 29, below the typical 60
- Health scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Flint Mountain
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Flint Mountain a good place to live?
Flint Mountain scores 66/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (76) and affordability (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (29) and health (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Flint Mountain in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Flint Mountain
Flint Mountain doesn't announce itself with a high street — it's detached houses on generous plots, the kind of place where you notice gardens before you notice people. At 233 residents and a median age of 48, this is a settled spot rather than a starter-home churn, and the density figures back that up: at under 500 people per square kilometre against a Welsh average many times higher, it reads as properly spaced-out village living rather than commuter-belt infill.
The numbers put it among the better-off pockets of Wales — a decile 9 for both deprivation and income means Flint Mountain sits in the least-deprived tenth of the country, and the grades echo that: an A for affordability, an A+ for environment, B+ across housing, transport and connectivity. For schools, Flint High School serves the secondary-age population as the local community school, and Ysgol Maes Hyfryd covers special education needs — there's no Estyn rating attached in what's available here, so take the B+ schools grade as the headline rather than any specific inspection outcome. Property here is overwhelmingly detached and freehold — of the recent sales sampled, half were detached houses and all were freehold, which is exactly what you'd expect a "for sale" board to say on a street like this: settled owner-occupiers, not flats-to-let. A median sale price of £218,500 sits close to the Welsh median, so despite the affluent decile ranking this isn't an expensive corner of the country — it's comfortable rather than exclusive, priced a shade above neighbouring Flintshire's benchmark but nowhere near the premium villages further east.