Crap Towns / Wiltshire / Broad Blunsdon
Broad Blunsdon
10/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 10. Higher scores are crapper.
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agree it's crap have defended it
Nearly Swindon. Sorry.
An Iron Age fort, a Roman road and a queue at Cold Harbour. Riveting.
Broad Blunsdon's got an Iron Age hillfort and bugger all to moan about, which is no use to us. Crime's low, roads are safe, and there are nearly four times the typical town's play spaces per head. The only grief is everyone dodging Swindon cutting through the village and meeting up in a queue at Cold Harbour.
That and the broadband. 5.8% of premises can't get superfast, nearly 12 times the typical town's share. And Swindon keeps getting closer. That's the real worry.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Broad Blunsdon's 64 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 64% of towns.
- Fly-tipping64/10013.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Swindon council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain51/100128 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Air pollution49/1007.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband48/10010.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.1% across the Swindon council area
- Sewage spills40/100179 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Food hygiene40/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 12 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires12/1002.0 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour8/1007.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions3/1000.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson2/1002.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Chippenham | 29 |
| 8 | Calne | 24 |
| 9 | Westbury | 24 |
| 10 | Stratton St Margaret | 22 |
| 11 | Amesbury | 20 |
| 12 | Royal Wootton Bassett | 16 |
| 13 | Tidworth | 11 |
| – | Broad Blunsdon | 10 |
| 14 | Corsham | 5 |
Broad Blunsdon by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 51.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 33% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 8 problems reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 12.3 per 10,000 people, 40% lower than the typical town's 20.4
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs, 2 hairdressers on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public swimming pool open Better: 1.5 per 10,000 people, 2.1x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.10pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 5.8% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 11.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 0.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: Against the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,602 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Swindon council
Have a crap-off
Broad Blunsdon 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.