Crap Towns / Dyfed / Ammanford
Ammanford
87/100Crap Score
Known as the Ford.
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 87. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Who locked the bogs?
The pits shut, then the banks, then the park toilets. Greggs is hanging on.
Ammanford had coal. Now it's got Greggs. The pits went, then the banks, then somebody locked the park bogs. There are three times the typical town's play spaces per head and the swings in half of them are falling to bits. Locals reckon the council's forgotten the place exists. Lucky council.
It rains in the Ford on 176 days a year. The sewers overflow for nearly 77 times as long as the typical town's, which is a fuck of a lot of shit for one small town. The last bus pulls out at 8.44pm, and on a Sunday there isn't one.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Ammanford's 100 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 100% of towns.
- Sewage spills100/10021,015 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain96/100176 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband90/10015.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 27.0% across the Carmarthenshire council area
- Criminal damage and arson84/10010.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour79/10014.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping77/10017.8 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Carmarthenshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions65/1002.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Food hygiene9/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 80 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution3/1004.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carmarthen | 91 |
| 2 | Llanelli | 90 |
| 3 | Milford Haven | 87 |
| – | Ammanford | 87 |
| 4 | Haverfordwest | 84 |
| 5 | Aberystwyth | 78 |
Ammanford by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 106 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 39% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 2.4 per 10,000 people, 29% lower than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs, 2 charity shops, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 12.1 per 100,000 people, 3.6x the typical town's 3.4
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.4 per 10,000 people, 1.5x the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 8.44pm last bus out on a Wednesday, and none on a Sunday 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%
- 7.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 54% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,477 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Carmarthenshire council
Have a crap-off
Ammanford 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.