Flintshire tops Wales for pace of new house building, official data reveals
Flintshire had the highest rate of new house building starts of any local authority in Wales in 2025-26, according to Welsh Government figures published this month.
For every 1,000 homes already standing in the county, six new ones were started during the year.
That was twice the Wales-wide rate of three new homes per 1,000 existing dwellings.
The county also saw 376 new homes completed in 2025-26, up from 309 the year before.
That is a rise of around 22 per cent.
It was also 50 per cent higher than the 250 new homes completed in Flintshire two years earlier, in 2023-24.
Neighbouring Wrexham completed 252 new homes over the same period, Denbighshire completed 108 and Conwy completed 151, according to StatsWales figures published alongside the Welsh Government report.
Across Wales as a whole, 5,159 new homes were completed in 2025-26, an increase of 11 per cent on the previous year.
A further 4,238 new homes were started across Wales, up 12 per cent.
Of the 376 homes completed in Flintshire, 258 were built for private sale and 118 were built by housing associations.
None were built by Flintshire County Council itself.
The 118 housing association completions in Flintshire were the highest number recorded by any council area in Wales, ahead of Newport with 101.
Most of the new homes in Flintshire were houses rather than flats, with 353 houses and 23 flats completed during the year.
Three bedroom homes accounted for 202 of the completions, up from 128 the year before.
Homes with four or more bedrooms rose from 73 to 88.
Smaller homes fell, with two bedroom completions down from 83 to 71 and one bedroom completions down from 25 to 15.
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