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Denbighshire

Sir Ddinbych

Outstanding borrowing is the MHCLG live-table stock, not a press figure. Crime is police-recorded and mapped from Community Safety Partnership areas. Political control is the 2026 Open Council Data composition snapshot. Welsh principal areas use the same official England-and-Wales tables (Country WAL / ONS W06).

No overall control — Labour, Plaid Cymru
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Total outstanding borrowing

£332.6m

£332,587,000

Debt per resident

£3,385

Using mid-2025 population of 98,247

Population

98,247

ONS mid-year estimate

Recorded crime rate

94.7 per 1,000

9,301 offences, year to March 2026

Borrowing

Denbighshire reported £332,587,000 of outstanding borrowing as at 30 June 2026. That is total outstanding borrowing (all sources, including loans from other local authorities). About £3,385 per resident.

Figures converted from £ thousand as published. This is a stock of outstanding borrowing, not the annual deficit.

Source: MHCLG — Borrowing and investment live table, Q1 2026 to 2027. As of 30 Jun 2026 · Q1 2026–27 (as at 30 June 2026).

Population

98,247 usual residents at mid-2025, on 2023 local authority boundaries.

Source: ONS — Estimates of the population for England and Wales, mid-2025. As of 30 Jun 2025 · Mid-2025 (2023 local authority boundaries).

Recorded crime

9,301 police-recorded offences excluding fraud, a rate of 94.7 per 1,000.

Police force / area: North Wales.

Community Safety Partnership: Denbighshire.

Police recorded crime excluding fraud, CSP area “Denbighshire” (North Wales Police).

Source: ONS / Home Office — Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables (Tables C2 and C4). As of 31 Mar 2026 · Year ending March 2026.

Who runs the council

No overall control — Labour, Plaid Cymru on a council of 48 seats.

  • Labour 14
  • Conservative 8
  • Liberal Democrats 0
  • Plaid Cymru 8
  • Green 2
  • Reform UK 0
  • Other 16

Open Council Data is a curated compilation of published council compositions, not an official government statistical release. Plaid Cymru seats use the OCD `pc` column.

Source: Open Council Data UK — GB council compositions 2016–2026. As of 1 May 2026 · 2026 composition snapshot (shortly after the May local elections / by-elections).

Last local election / current composition

No overall control — Labour, Plaid Cymru; 48 seats (Lab 14, Con 8, LD 0, Plaid 8, Green 2, Reform 0, other 16)

Next scheduled local election (from the councillor file): 6 May 2027. Election calendar

Next UK general election: not yet set. National and mayoral dates: Election calendar.

Source: Open Council Data UK council compositions and councillor file, 2026. As of 1 May 2026.

2024 general election in this area

Labour won 3 of 4 overlapping constituency/constituencies. Parliamentary constituencies do not match council boundaries exactly.

  • Labour31.0% · 53,198 votes
  • Conservative24.0% · 41,208 votes
  • Plaid Cymru22.0% · 37,792 votes
  • Reform UK14.9% · 25,574 votes
  • Liberal Democrats3.8% · 6,449 votes

Indicative sum of votes in overlapping constituencies. Some constituencies cross local authority boundaries, so this is not a precise LA result.

4 overlapping constituencies
  • Bangor Aberconwy: Labour — Claire Hughes
  • Clwyd East: Labour — Becky Gittins
  • Clwyd North: Labour — Gill German
  • Dwyfor Meirionnydd: Plaid Cymru — Liz Saville Roberts

Source: House of Commons Library — General election 2024 results (CBP-10009). As of 4 Jul 2024.

Council tax (Band D)

Full rankings
Area Band D
£2,339.03
£ change
+£121.95
% change
+5.50%
Rank
12 of 22financial year 2026 to 2027

Overall average Band D for a two-adult dwelling in this Welsh principal area, including the county/county borough, community council and police precepts. Ranked 12 of 22 in Wales for 2026-27.

Source: Welsh Government — Council Tax levels: April 2026 to March 2027 (Tables 1–2 overall Band D and official £ / % change). As of 24 Mar 2026 · financial year 2026 to 2027.

Explain this numberWales overall Band D

The Welsh Government overall average Band D for a two-adult dwelling in this principal area — the county or county borough plus community council and police precepts.

  • Not average council tax per dwelling (a separate column in the same release), and not the amount every household pays (Wales bands A–I are fixed fractions of Band D).
  • Year-on-year £ and % are the published Overall increase columns. Missing values stay unavailable — we do not invent them.
  • Ranked among Wales’s 22 principal areas only. MHCLG England area Band D is a different collection.

Wales Band D rankings

Source: Welsh Government — Council Tax levels: April 2026 to March 2027 (Tables 1–2 overall Band D and official £ / % change). As of 24 Mar 2026 · financial year 2026 to 2027.

MPs covering this area

Parliamentary constituencies from the House of Commons Library GE 2024 results that overlap this council (ONS lookup). Sitting MPs are joined from the committed Members API snapshot — usually by constituency name. ONS constituency codes are shown for the seat; the Members API has no ONS codes, so a code-level join is not available. Name-only joins are labelled.

Source: House of Commons Library — General election 2024 results (CBP-10009). As of 4 Jul 2024.

Source: UK Parliament Members API (committed snapshot). As of 13 Sept 2026.