Crap Towns / Cornwall / Bodmin
Bodmin
60/100Crap Score
399th crappest of 984 towns, and 3rd in Cornwall. 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
Is that a roundabout or not?
There's a Beast on the moor. The vandals in town are worse.
Bodmin used to be the county town and won't let you forget it. Now the library's gone, the brick paving's like an ice rink when it rains, and it's wet on 167 days a year. Then there's the junction everyone swears is a roundabout. It isn't.
There's one hairdresser for the whole town, so Dogbin's not a hard name to earn. Superfast broadband misses 2.2% of premises, over four times the typical town's share, and vandalism's worse than most. The Camel Trail's lovely. It goes to Wadebridge. Take it.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bodmin's 98 for broadband means it's crapper than 98% of towns.
- Broadband98/10026.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 34.0% across the Cornwall council area
- Criminal damage and arson89/10011.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain89/100167 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills78/100801 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour76/10020.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires70/1009.5 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Serious road collisions35/1002.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene23/1001.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 101 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping16/1005.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Cornwall council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution7/1003.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Truro | 76 |
| 2 | Penzance | 71 |
| 3 | Bodmin | 60 |
| 4 | Liskeard | 58 |
| 5 | St Austell | 54 |
| 6 | Newquay | 51 |
| 7 | Falmouth | 46 |
| 8 | Camborne | 42 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.9 | Saltash | 38 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Bodmin by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 101 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 33% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 7 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 4.1 per 10,000 people, 21% higher than the typical town's 3.4
- 4 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2021
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 1 hairdresser, 1 charity shop, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 12) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 2 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Worse: 11.8 per 100,000 people, 3.5x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 library shut for good since 2010: Bodmin Library and One Stop Shop (2017)
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.6 per 10,000 people, 63% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 2 public swimming pools open Better: 1.2 per 10,000 people, 1.7x the typical English town's 0.7
- 1 place on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.33am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 2.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 4.4x the typical town's 0.5%
- 12.4% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 20% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,599 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Cornwall council
Have a crap-off
Bodmin 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.