Chirk

What is it like to live in Chirk?

Homes sold for a typical £200,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 69 of the 94 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Chirk, 850 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Get Information about Schools; Welsh Government school list; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Chirk?

Homes in Chirk sold for a typical £200,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 29 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £200,000 from 29 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached £290,000 11 sales
• Semi-detached £195,000 11 sales
• Terraced £155,000 7 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole LL14 district, Chirk's main postcode district: a typical £180,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Chirk: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Chirk?

None of the 94 postcodes now in use in Chirk came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 29 homes sold in Chirk were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LL14 district, 6%.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Chirk?

Ofcom reports on 94 of the 94 postcodes in Chirk. At 69 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Which schools are in Chirk?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Chirk. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Sources: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026; Welsh Government school list, read 27 October 2026. Each school opens its record on GOV.UK or its page on My Local School.

How far is the station from Chirk?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Chirk is Chirk Rail Station, 850 m away in a straight line.

• Chirk Rail Station Railway station 850 mWalk
• Gobowen Rail Station Railway station 5.1 kmDrive
• Ruabon Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Chirk?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Chirk. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Chirk Surgery Phone 01691 772434 550 mWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Chirk safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 316 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Chirk over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 6, drugs 3, possession of weapons 2.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Chirk?

Council

Wrexham

Parliamentary constituency

Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr

Police force area

North Wales

Country

Wales

MP

Steve Witherden (Labour)

All 94 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.