Crap Towns / Warwickshire / Bedworth
Bedworth
70/100Crap Score
Calls itself the town that never forgets.
300th crappest of 984 towns, and the crappest in Warwickshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
Beduth. Still blaming Nuneaton.
Empty shops, aggro and filthy takeaway kitchens. Beduth still reckons Nuneaton's worse.
Say Bedworth how it's spelt and everyone knows you're not from round here. It's Beduth. The town centre's empty shops and not much in the full ones. Still, it's not Nuneaton. That's what Beduth tells itself every morning, and it's wrong: Bedworth is the crappest town in Warwickshire, and Nuneaton is behind it.
5 of the 21 takeaways with a hygiene rating score 0 to 2, six times the typical town's share, so the kebab's a gamble. The anti-social behaviour's well above the typical town's and climbing. Both public pools have shut, the last in 2026. It calls itself the town that never forgets. This lot it would happily forget.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bedworth's 83 for anti-social behaviour means it's crapper than 83% of towns.
- Anti-social behaviour83/10022.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution83/10010.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene67/1003.6% rated 0 to 2, of the 139 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping67/10014.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Nuneaton and Bedworth council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires62/1007.5 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson49/1007.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband48/1009.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.3% across the Nuneaton and Bedworth council area
- Rain48/100127 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions39/1002.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills30/10095.7 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bedworth | 70 |
| 2 | Warwick | 64 |
| 3 | Nuneaton | 62 |
| 4 | Rugby | 54 |
| 5 | Royal Leamington Spa | 46 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.6 | Stratford-upon-Avon | 37 |
| 7 | Kenilworth | 26 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Bedworth by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 85.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 12% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 75 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 24.1 per 10,000 people, 7.1x the typical town's 3.4
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 11 pubs, 6 hairdressers, 1 charity shop, 2 bookmakers, 2 banks, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 23.8% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (5 of 21) Worse: 6x the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Better: 3.2 per 100,000 people, 6% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 4 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.3 per 10,000 people, 19% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- None public swimming pools open; 2 closed for good since 2010 Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.28am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.8% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 1.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 21.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 40% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,531 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Nuneaton and Bedworth council
- £2,502 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £110 more than the English average
- 13% of Warwickshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 19% lower than England's 16%
- 2 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Bedworth 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.