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Acrefair and Cefn-mawr
64/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 64. Higher scores are crapper.
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agree it's crap have defended it
The Cefn. Nobody stops.
Coachloads come for the aqueduct. None of them come into the village. Smart people.
Ever been to the Cefn? No, nor has anyone off the aqueduct coaches. They walk across the canal in the sky, take a photo and bugger off before they get anywhere near the village. Can't blame them.
The old chemical works used to stink the place out, so it's not like it's only just gone downhill. Now it's the storm overflows, spilling for nearly seven times as long per head as the typical town's, plus trolleys in every hedge and criminal damage at nearly twice the typical town's rate. Plenty of pubs, mind. You'll need one.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Acrefair and Cefn-mawr's 94 for criminal damage and arson means it's crapper than 94% of towns.
- Criminal damage and arson94/10013.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills93/1001,892 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour85/10023.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain70/100144 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband53/1006.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 13.9% across the Wrexham council area
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Fly-tipping37/1008.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Wrexham council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions32/1001.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene27/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 34 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution12/1005.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Llandudno | 87 |
| 3 | Colwyn Bay | 78 |
| 4 | Prestatyn | 71 |
| 5 | Wrexham | 66 |
| – | Acrefair and Cefn-mawr | 64 |
| 6 | Flint | 63 |
| 7 | Rhosllannerchrugog | 54 |
| 8 | Connah's Quay | 52 |
| 9 | Hawarden | 43 |
Acrefair and Cefn-mawr by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 86.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 13% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 12 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 17.4 per 10,000 people, 5.1x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 8 pubs, 5 hairdressers, 1 charity shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.9 per 10,000 people, 1.8x the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.48pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 4.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 74% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,412 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 8% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Wrexham council
Have a crap-off
Acrefair and Cefn-mawr 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.