Y Bala
WardEast Gwynedd. About 1,974 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Y Bala live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Y Bala compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Y Bala safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Y Bala at a rate of 71.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 88.8 per 1,000 people across Gwynedd.
Across Wales as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.7 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 13 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Y Bala.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (52), anti-social behaviour (35) and other crime (24).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Gwynedd
These figures are published for the whole of Gwynedd, not for each ward, so they describe all of Gwynedd and not Y Bala alone. See Gwynedd
Y Bala in brief
Y Bala had 1,993 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Y Bala live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Y Bala, 84.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Y Bala, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.