Crap Towns / Wrexham / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Wrexham?
In January 2026, 1.0% of premises in Wrexham couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 2.0 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 4 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 89.4% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 4 | less than 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 229 | 1.0% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 20,828 | 89.4% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Hawarden | 16.4 km | 1.8 |
| Acrefair and Cefn-mawr | 10.1 km | 1.3 |
| Mold | 16.6 km | 1.3 |
| Chester | 16.7 km | 1.1 |
| Wrexham | – | 1.0 |
| Broughton | 13.7 km | 0.8 |
| Rhosllannerchrugog | 6.7 km | 0.7 |
| Brynteg | 4.8 km | 0.6 |
| Gwersyllt | 3.2 km | 0.5 |
| Buckley | 14.7 km | 0.2 |
| Shotton | 17.8 km | 0.0 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |