CH8 7BQ Flintshire

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Holywell East.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Flintshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,376 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

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£1,584£1,848£2,112£2,376£2,904£3,432£3,960£4,752£5,544

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (41% of about 800 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Welsh Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Flood risk

None of the 11 address points in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water on Natural Resources Wales's map. Outside those areas the chance is under 0.1% (1 in 1,000) a year.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 269 residents in 122 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeWales
Median age3943
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over18%21%

Homes

Around this postcodeWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%66%
Owned outright22%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented60%17%
Private rented5%17%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeWales
Adults (16 and over) in work43%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)25%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)8%26%
Travel to work by car or van70%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus5%3%
On foot or by bicycle14%8%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)56%60%
Work 30 km or more away3%10%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%32%
No qualifications31%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)100%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 4 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Nant y Coed.