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Abertridwr and Senghenydd
65/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 65. Higher scores are crapper.
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agree it's crap have defended it
The bus isn't coming, mate.
Plenty of buses on the timetable. Fewer at the stop. Lovely valley, shame about everything in it.
Ever tried getting a bus out of Sneg? The timetable reckons there are more of them in the evening than the typical town gets. The people at the stop reckon it's been cancelled again. And if one does turn up, some bloke's parked in the stop. In Abertridwr the cars live on the pavement and you walk in the road.
You get rain on 170 days a year, so you'll be stood at that stop soaked. There's one park between the two villages and hardly any of it per person, and somebody's always smashing something up. Nice hills, though.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Abertridwr and Senghenydd's 92 for rain means it's crapper than 92% of towns.
- Rain92/100170 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Criminal damage and arson88/10011.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills80/100888 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping67/10014.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Caerphilly council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Anti-social behaviour49/10015.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions49/1002.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Broadband34/1003.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 10.3% across the Caerphilly council area
- Food hygiene28/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 32 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution19/1006.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Blackwood | 92 |
| 7 | Caerphilly | 88 |
| 8 | Pontypool | 86 |
| 9 | Ystrad Mynach | 85 |
| 10 | Cwmbrân | 75 |
| – | Abertridwr and Senghenydd | 65 |
| 11 | Chepstow | 59 |
| 12 | Abergavenny | 57 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.13 | Monmouth | 31 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Abertridwr and Senghenydd by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 84.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 11% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of litter and bins on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 3.5 per 10,000 people, 3.9x the typical town's 0.9
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.29pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 60% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 28.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 1.8x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,480 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Caerphilly council
Have a crap-off
Abertridwr and Senghenydd 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.