Property market
The five-year median is £390,000 from 1 recorded sale in CH8 8LY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Flintshire is £213,930 in June 2026, up 1.0% year on year.
CH8 8LY
Caerwys · Flintshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Holywell
- Ward
- Caerwys
- Local authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East
- Postcode district
- CH8
- Postcode sector
- CH8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH8 8LY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH8
- Postcode sector
- CH8 8
- Latitude
- 53.226039
- Longitude
- -3.239688
- British National Grid easting
- 317,336
- British National Grid northing
- 370,604
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Flintshire · W06000005
- Electoral ward
- Caerwys · W05001581
- Parish or community
- W04000212
- Westminster constituency
- Clwyd East · W07000094
- Output area
- W00001459
- Lower layer super output area
- Flintshire 006B · W01000270
- Middle layer super output area
- Flintshire 006 · W02000063
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CH8
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Llys Y Coed, Ffordd Y Graig, Lixwm, Holywell, CH8 8LY | 9 June 2022 | £390,000 |
| Graig Bach, Ffordd Y Graig, Lixwm, Holywell, CH8 8LY | 21 April 2021 | £170,000 |
| Llys Y Coed, Ffordd Y Graig, Lixwm, Holywell, CH8 8LY | 3 February 2020 | £320,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 990 m
Lixwm Church in Wales Voluntary Aided School
Welsh establishment
- 1.3 km
Nannerch Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 4.0 km
Ysgol Rhos Helyg
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 48
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 25
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Public order 3
- Possession of weapons 3
- Burglary 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 35
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- CH8 8 residents
- 5,885
14 female, 21 male
Age bands in CH8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.1%
819 residents
587 residents
1,117 residents
2,081 residents
1,709 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH8 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 89.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 89.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 89.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 89.5%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 89.5%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 21.1%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Bronant
BCT · Licswm
- 0.3 miles
Bronant
BCT · Licswm
- 0.5 miles
Bwlch
BCT · Bwlch
- 0.5 miles
Bwlch
BCT · Bwlch
- 0.5 miles
Lixwm Garage
BCT · Licswm
Evidence in context
Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Lixwm Church in Wales Voluntary Aided School is the nearest published school at 990 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
48 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 25 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.