Crap Towns / Clwyd / Abergele
Abergele
73/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 73. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
Drive past. Keep driving.
There's a castle off the telly, and they'll mention it before you've even parked.
Abergele's got a castle that was on I'm a Celebrity and it's never shut up about it. Aberjelly, they call it. Fair. The gigs up at the castle keep the neighbours awake, and the scramblers churn up the woods the rest of the time.
Pensarn's bathing water passed as Good, which you wouldn't bet on with the storm overflows spilling for nearly four times as long per head as the typical town's. Beach is pebbles. Town's nothing. There are three times as many hairdressers per head as the typical town, so at least you'll look nice walking along it.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Abergele's 84 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 84% of towns.
- Sewage spills84/1001,049 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping68/10014.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Conwy council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain67/100139 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions63/1002.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour60/10016.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband59/1008.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 11.7% across the Conwy council area
- Criminal damage and arson54/1007.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene52/1002.9% rated 0 to 2, of the 35 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Air pollution5/1004.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhyl | 94 |
| 2 | Llandudno | 87 |
| 3 | Colwyn Bay | 78 |
| – | Abergele | 73 |
| 4 | Prestatyn | 71 |
| 5 | Wrexham | 66 |
| 6 | Flint | 63 |
| 7 | Rhosllannerchrugog | 54 |
| 8 | Connah's Quay | 52 |
Abergele by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 71.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 7% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 About the same: 3.5 per 10,000 people, about the same as the typical town's 3.4
- Good Abergele (Pensarn)'s bathing water rating, 2025
What's left on the high street
- 7 pubs, 12 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 banking hub opened here
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.3 per 10,000 people, 44% higher than the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.22am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 80% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 19.6% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 26% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,497 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Conwy council
Have a crap-off
Abergele against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.
- ?Fly-tippingper 1,000, council area?
- ?Anti-social behaviourper 1,000 people?
- ?Serious road crashesper 10,000 people?
- ?Sewage spillshours per 10,000 people?
- ?Food hygienerated poor?
- ?Criminal damageper 1,000 people?
- ?Dirty airµg/m³?
- ?No gigabitof premises can't get it?
- ?Deliberate firesper 10,000 people?
- ?Raindays a year?
Ten ingredients. One verdict. Who's crapper? The higher Crap Score takes it.