At the time of the 2001 census, the population of area Wrexham 006A, which includes Tanyfron and a number of other small settlements, was 1,347.

[2] The village is part of the local government Community of Brymbo and is in the Vron electoral ward.

[7] Most of the residents worked in the collieries at Vron or Plas Power, or in the nearby Brymbo Steelworks.

The major local employer, the Steelworks, expanded across the hillside to Tanyfron in 1976, but closed in 1990 with serious economic effects for the village.

Harold Tudor (1908-1988), the British Council official credited with starting the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, was born in Tanyfron, where his parents lived on St Alban's Road.