Betws-y-Coed has a population of 1,200, making it the 10th largest place in Conwy.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Conwy population trends, 2001–2024.
Betws-y-Coed in context
Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.
The centre of Betws-y-Coed sits in postcode district LL24.
Food and drink on the high street
| Registered premises | Count |
|---|---|
| Restaurants and cafés (418.6 per 10,000 residents) | 9 |
| Takeaways and sandwich shops (186.0 per 10,000 residents) | 4 |
| Hotels, B&Bs and guest houses (883.7 per 10,000 residents) | 19 |
Counts are registered food premises in the Betws-y-Coed built-up area (215 residents at the 2021 census), from the FSA food hygiene register, extracted 17 August 2026. The boundary is drawn from where the buildings are, so these figures cover the town itself rather than the wider council area, and no total is shown because the register also lists premises nobody would call a venue: school kitchens, care homes, warehouses. Compare towns →
Shops and services
| Premises | Count |
|---|---|
| Shops (all retail) (1302.3 per 10,000 residents) | 28 |
| Hairdressing salons (46.5 per 10,000 residents) | 1 |
| Post offices (46.5 per 10,000 residents) | 1 |
| Community centres (46.5 per 10,000 residents) | 1 |
| Car parks (139.5 per 10,000 residents) | 3 |
Shops, cafés, salons, banks, post offices and arcades are rateable premises by use on the VOA 2023 rating list — the shops figure is all general retail, charity shops included. Gambling premises come from the Gambling Commission's licensing register, which lists 6,251 betting shops nationally against the rating list's 3,838: many betting shops are rated as ordinary shops, so the licensing register is the truer count and the one used here. Categories the rating list counts badly are deliberately absent rather than wrong: petrol stations disappear into supermarket ratings, vets and museums run far under their professional registers, and pools and nurseries mostly rate inside other premises. Same built-up-area boundary as the download table on this page.
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Nearby in Conwy
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llanrwst | 3,323 |
| 2 | Penmaenmawr | 2,535 |
| 3 | Llansantffraid Glan Conwy | 1,862 |
| 4 | Trefriw | 605 |
| 5 | Dolgarrog | 446 |
| 6 | Cerrigydrudion | 289 |