Crap Towns / Gloucestershire / Bradley Stoke
Bradley Stoke
6/100Crap Score
927th crappest of 984 towns, and 15th in Gloucestershire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Is this the same street?
A new town of identical houses joined up by roundabouts. The Tesco is the town centre.
Bradley Stoke is what you get when someone plans a town and forgets to put a town in it. Every house is the same, every road ends in a roundabout and the high street is a Tesco. No pubs worth the name, no nightlife, no proper shops. Crime is low, mainly because the burglars can't find their way back out.
235 premises don't even get the legal minimum broadband, which for a town that's barely forty years old takes some doing. There's one public toilet for the lot of them. The buses do run all night, mind, which is about the only way out of the roundabouts.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bradley Stoke's 71 for air pollution means it's crapper than 71% of towns.
- Air pollution71/10011.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband64/1008.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.6% across the South Gloucestershire council area
- Rain61/100134 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene41/1001.8% rated 0 to 2, of the 57 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping26/1007.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, South Gloucestershire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions20/1001.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills16/10028.3 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Deliberate fires15/1003.0 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson5/1003.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour4/1006.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Cirencester | 36 |
| 10 | Brockworth | 31 |
| 11 | Yate | 31 |
| 12 | Stoke Gifford | 30 |
| 13 | Churchdown | 24 |
| 14 | Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 21 |
| 15 | Bradley Stoke | 6 |
| 16 | Bishop's Cleeve | 6 |
| 17 | Thornbury | 2 |
Bradley Stoke by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 46.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 39% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 36 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 14.3 per 10,000 people, 4.2x the typical town's 3.4
- 8 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 3 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.4 per 10,000 people, 75% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 4 public swimming pools open Better: 1.6 per 10,000 people, 2.3x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- All night buses on a Wednesday Better: The typical town's last bus goes at 12.14am
- 2.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 4.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 13.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 16% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,623 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 6% higher than the typical town's 1,532
South Gloucestershire council
- £2,551 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £159 more than the English average
- 9% of South Gloucestershire council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 44% lower than England's 16%
- 12 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Bradley Stoke 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.