Mount Pleasant
Suburb · 75 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Schools scores 84, well above the typical 60
- 3 GP practices within a short walk
- Affordability scores 74, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Mount Pleasant
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Mount Pleasant a good place to live?
Mount Pleasant scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (84) and health (78).
It scores lowest on food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Mount Pleasant in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Mount Pleasant
Semi-detached houses dominate the streets here, pebble-dashed and privately owned, with the kind of gardens that suggest people stay put rather than pass through. Mount Pleasant sits within Flint, and it reads as a settled, working corner of Flintshire rather than a commuter dormitory — the median age of 45 is a few years above the Welsh average, and at 610 people it has the feel of a place where neighbours recognise each other's cars.
Flint Rail Station gives you a way out without a car, which matters given the bus stop count here is thin on the ground — just two recorded stops. Schools in the area include Flint High School and the primaries Ysgol Gwynedd CP and Cornist Park CP, all community schools rather than anything selective; Wales doesn't use Ofsted ratings, so you're judging these on reputation and Estyn reports rather than a headline grade. On the housing side, freehold ownership is effectively universal here — all 39 recent sales were freehold — and prices undercut the Welsh average by a wide margin: a typical semi-detached sale locally comes in at £150,000 against £210,000 nationally, and detached homes similarly sell for less than their Welsh counterparts. That combination of full ownership and below-average pricing is what a For Sale board on this street is really telling you: this is a place to buy into steadily, not flip.
The green space and eating-out picture isn't detailed in what's available, so it's hard to sketch the weekend beyond what the numbers suggest about daily life. What the numbers do sketch clearly is safety, and it's the one place this area's story gets complicated. Full-fibre broadband reaches nearly nine in ten homes, connectivity and affordability both grade well above the Welsh average, and the income and deprivation deciles place Mount Pleasant in the better-off half of Wales. But crime sits sharply higher than the Flintshire average — over twelve times the council's typical rate — with violence and sexual offences accounting for over four in ten recorded incidents, followed by anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That's the out-of-pattern note in an otherwise comfortable set of grades, and it's worth sitting with rather than glossing over.