Rhyl East ward lies to the east, Rhyl South West to the south and Conwy County Borough's Kinmel Bay ward to the west.

[3] According to a 2002 article in The Guardian, "many guest houses on the west side of town where the posh people once lived have been converted into cheap bedsits, homes for locals and incomers united by poverty and sometimes drugs".

[5] In October Rhyl West councillors Ian Armstrong and Joan Butterfield joined local MP, Chris Ruane, to paint out a notorious derelict shop sign which read "Rhyl's Biggest Receiver Of Stolen Goods".

[6] The ward elects two county councillors to Denbighshire County Council and, at the May 2017 election, the seats were won by Patricia Jones and Peter Prendegast for Welsh Labour.

Four of the twenty two town councillors are elected from the Foryd and Bodfor wards.