It was created in 1985 after a Boundary Commission review of the four community areas within Wrexham, of which Caia Park occupies its east, with the others being Acton, Offa, and Rhosddu.

The area takes its name from the old Caia or Ty'n y Caeau farm, which was eventually demolished for construction of the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway.

The majority of the community area is occupied by the Caia Park development of local authority housing.

[4] Much of the estate, originally called Queen's Park, was laid out in the early 1950s to plans by influential town planner and architect Gordon Stephenson.

[6] On two days in June 2003 there was rioting in Caia Park following tensions between local residents and Iraqi Kurdish refugees, about 60 of whom were housed in the area.