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Isle of Anglesey: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Isle of Anglesey County Council: Welsh unitary authority (unitary), Wales. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code W06000001.

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Average Band D council tax in Isle of Anglesey for 2026–27: £2,260.73 a year. Of that, £1,792.98 is set by the council, £398.25 by the police and, on average, £69.50 by community councils.

Every band
Isle of Anglesey: council tax by band, 2026 to 2027, including police and average community council
BandA year
A-£1,255.96
A£1,507.15
B£1,758.35
C£2,009.54
D£2,260.73
E£2,763.11
F£3,265.50
G£3,767.88
H£4,521.46
I£5,275.04

Including the police and the average community council charge; band A− is for homes in band A that qualify for disabled band reduction. Source: Welsh Government, Council tax levels by billing authority and band (Open Government Licence).

Source: Welsh Government, Composition of average band D council tax by billing authority (Open Government Licence). Your own bill depends on your band, your community council and any discounts or reductions.

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Environment

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Education

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What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Isle of Anglesey reported it to the Welsh Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in Wales.

Isle of Anglesey: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
ServiceBudget
Education£90.3 million
Social services£73.7 million
Council fund housing£32.1 million
Local environmental services£15.7 million
Roads and transport£11.5 million
Libraries, culture, heritage, sport and recreation£5.1 million
Planning, economic and community development£3.4 million
Local tax collection£3.8 million
Debt financing costs£5.9 million
Law, order and protective servicesnone budgeted
Central administration£6.3 million
Other revenue expenditure£3.5 million
Revenue expenditure£251.3 million

Revenue expenditure: the cost of running each service in the year, as the Welsh Government collects it.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Welsh Government, Budgeted revenue expenditure by authority and service (Open Government Licence).

Life in Isle of Anglesey: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

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People living here
68,607 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age
50 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year
£21,938 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax
£613 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty
29.2% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
3.6% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home
£236,308 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs
6.2 times yearly pay 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsA typical home's price divided by the typical yearly pay of people who live here.
Years in good health: women
61.1 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men
61.2 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person
7.0 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband
67.6% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars
244.6 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here
2,230 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Isle of Anglesey from the ONS

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

35 seats in 2026. Run by: Plaid Cymru, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales 19, Independent / Other 11, Labour Party 3, Liberal Democrats 1, Reform UK 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 35 councillors, by ward
  • Dyfed Jones (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Aethwy
  • Robin Williams (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Aethwy
  • Sonia Williams (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Aethwy
  • Alwen Pennant Watkin (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Bodowyr
  • Dafydd Roberts (Independent / Other) — Bodowyr
  • Arfon Wyn (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Bro Aberffraw
  • John Ifan Jones (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Bro Aberffraw
  • Gwilym Jones (Independent / Other) — Bro'r Llynnoedd
  • Ken Taylor (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Bro'r Llynnoedd
  • Dylan Rees (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Canolbarth Môn
  • Non Dafydd (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Canolbarth Môn
  • Paul Ellis (Independent / Other) — Canolbarth Môn
  • Geraint Ap Ifan Bebb (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Cefni
  • Nicola Roberts (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Cefni
  • Douglas Massie Fowlie (Independent / Other) — Crigyll
  • Neville Evans (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Crigyll
  • Euryn Morris (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Lligwy
  • Ieuan Williams (Independent / Other) — Lligwy
  • Margaret Roberts (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Lligwy
  • Glyn Haynes (Labour Party) — Parc a'r Mynydd
  • Robert Jones (Independent / Other) — Parc a'r Mynydd
  • Alun Roberts (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Seiriol
  • Carwyn Elias Jones (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Seiriol
  • Gary Pritchard (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Seiriol
  • Jackie Lewis (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Talybolion
  • Kenneth Hughes (Independent / Other) — Talybolion
  • Llio Owen (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales) — Talybolion
  • Jeff Evans (Independent / Other) — Tref Cybi
  • Pip O'Neill (Labour Party) — Tref Cybi
  • Aled Jones (Liberal Democrats) — Twrcelyn
  • Derek Owen (Independent / Other) — Twrcelyn
  • Liz Wood (Independent / Other) — Twrcelyn
  • Celfyn Furlong (Reform UK) — Ynys Gybi
  • Dafydd Rhys Thomas (Independent / Other) — Ynys Gybi
  • Keith Roberts (Labour Party) — Ynys Gybi

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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Cite this page

Harvard style. Every figure on the page also names its original source, which is usually the better thing to cite.

Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.