Crap Towns / Norfolk / Bradwell
Bradwell
33/100Crap Score
660th crappest of 984 towns, and 8th in Norfolk. Higher scores are crapper.
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Gorleston ate it
Swallowed by Gorleston's sprawl, with new houses arriving faster than school places.
Bradwell used to be a village in Suffolk. Now it's the bit of Gorleston you drive through without noticing, with new houses going up faster than the schools can find desks. There's 1 pub and 1 hairdresser for the whole place.
Great Yarmouth council logs more than three times the typical council's fly-tipping. Somebody's dumping their old sofa in Bradwell and it's probably from Yarmouth. The kitchens are no better, with more than three times the typical town's share on a low hygiene rating. The latest serious pollution incident put household and metal waste in the air. The rubbish won't even stay on the ground.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bradwell's 94 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 94% of towns.
- Fly-tipping94/10033.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Great Yarmouth council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene73/1008.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 25 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires60/1006.9 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution57/1008.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband35/1003.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 12.3% across the Great Yarmouth council area
- Rain28/100120 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions27/1001.7 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson20/1004.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills13/10014.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour12/1008.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Gorleston-on-Sea | 65 |
| 5 | Thetford | 49 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.6 | Dereham | 35 |
| 7 | Downham Market | 33 |
| 8 | Bradwell | 33 |
| 9 | Wymondham | 18 |
| 10 | North Walsham | 17 |
| 11 | Watton | 10 |
| 12 | Attleborough | 4 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Bradwell by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 38.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 50% lower 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: 10.3 per 10,000 people, 3x the typical town's 3.4
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2025
- 2 of 2 bathing waters here or within 2 km rated Excellent in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.9 per 10,000 people, 44% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Better: 0.9 per 10,000 people, 29% higher than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.19pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 20% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 24.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 1.6x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,671 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 9% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Great Yarmouth council
- £2,414 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £22 more than the English average
- 8% of Norfolk County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 50% lower than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Bradwell 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.