Nercwys
Village · 763 residents
63Good
Good · better than 7 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 82, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 29 per 1,000 people a year against 99
- Affordability scores 71, 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
- Health scores 19, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Nercwys a good place to live?
Nercwys scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (82) and safety (79).
It scores lowest on health (19) and food & drink (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Nercwys in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Nercwys
Nercwys sits off the road between Mold and Llanferres, the kind of village you'd miss at speed — a scatter of stone-built and rendered houses, a chapel, farmland pressing in on most sides. There's no high street to speak of, no row of shops to read for clues, which is itself the clue: this is a place people choose for the quiet rather than the convenience.
That absence of hard detail runs deeper than the streetscape. There's no reliable read here on house prices, crime, schools, or transport specific to Nercwys itself — the kind of numbers that usually let you size up a place before you've parked the car. What we do have is the wider frame: Flintshire, the county it belongs to, sees a typical house price of around £205,000 across the county, and Wales as a whole carries a median closer to £208,000, so Nercwys is not swimming against any obvious tide of unaffordability or inflated value — it's a small rural village inside a fairly ordinary Welsh council area, price-wise.
What that means practically is that you'd be buying into the character of Flintshire more than into any documented specifics of Nercwys — its crime rate, its school performance, its transport links would need checking on the ground, at the postcode, rather than assumed from a village-level snapshot. That's not a black mark against the place; villages this small in Wales often don't generate the volume of transactions or incidents that produce clean statistics, and that thinness of data is, in its own way, consistent with a low-key, low-traffic spot rather than a warning sign.