CH7
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Buckley and Mold, in Flintshire.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an CH7 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in CH7 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How CH7 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is CH7 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in CH7 at a rate of 61.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across the CH postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 312 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in CH7.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,350), anti-social behaviour (613) and other crime (477).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in CH7 was 67.9 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in CH7, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so CH7 has no single figure. Of its 31 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in CH7
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denbighshire 013A | 2,432 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 62.6% |
| Flintshire 006C | 1,243 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.6% |
| Flintshire 006D | 1,790 | 41.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 57.6% |
| Flintshire 010D | 1,826 | 41.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.4% |
| Flintshire 012A | 1,716 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.4% |
| Flintshire 012B | 1,486 | 34.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.2% |
| Flintshire 012C | 1,561 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.6% |
| Flintshire 012D | 1,498 | 13.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Flintshire 013B | 1,656 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.0% |
| Flintshire 014A | 1,188 | 22.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Flintshire 014B | 1,424 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| Flintshire 014C | 1,412 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.1% |
| Flintshire 014D | 1,634 | 26.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.2% |
| Flintshire 014E | 1,379 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| Flintshire 016A | 1,604 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.0% |
| Flintshire 016B | 1,122 | 132.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.0% |
| Flintshire 016C | 1,958 | 259.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.2% |
| Flintshire 016D | 1,227 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
| Flintshire 016E | 1,603 | 16.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Flintshire 016F | 1,197 | 122.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 87.9% |
| Flintshire 016G | 1,437 | 130.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.3% |
| Flintshire 017A | 1,672 | 149.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.2% |
| Flintshire 017B | 1,719 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Flintshire 017C | 1,418 | 110.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Flintshire 017D | 1,346 | 108.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Flintshire 017E | 1,660 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.0% |
| Flintshire 017F | 2,039 | 32.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.7% |
| Flintshire 019A | 1,884 | 27.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 60.6% |
| Flintshire 019B | 1,628 | 29.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 65.2% |
| Flintshire 019C | 2,123 | 44.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.1% |
| Flintshire 019D | 1,687 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.1% |
MPs for CH7
- Becky GittinsLabourMP for Clwyd East67% of CH7’s postcodes
- Sir Mark TamiLabourMP for Alyn and Deeside33% of CH7’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
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CH7 in brief
CH7 is a postcode district covering Buckley and Mold, in Flintshire.
About 50,309 people lived in CH7 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £230,000 in 2025 across 765 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in CH7 was £230,000 in 2025.
CH7 had 50,349 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in CH7 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In CH7, 88.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.