Crap Towns / Clwyd / Broughton
Broughton
44/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 44. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Wings and car parks.
They make Airbus wings here. Everyone else sits in traffic trying to get to the retail park.
Broughton makes wings for Airbus, and a giant plane called the Beluga flies in to take them away. Everyone else is stuck in the queue for the shopping park, or the queue when the factory shift changes, or both. The houses next to the retail park get the noise.
Crime comes in at about half the typical town's rate. Nobody smashes anything and nobody nicks anything, which is just as well, because the place is mostly a car park. The water gets the sewage. The wings get out. Lucky them.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Broughton's 87 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 87% of towns.
- Sewage spills87/1001,280 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Serious road collisions72/1003.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Rain58/100133 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband58/1009.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.2% across the Flintshire council area
- Food hygiene56/1003.7% rated 0 to 2, of the 27 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Fly-tipping44/10010.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Flintshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution32/1007.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Anti-social behaviour8/1007.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson4/1003.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Prestatyn | 71 |
| 5 | Wrexham | 66 |
| 6 | Flint | 63 |
| 7 | Rhosllannerchrugog | 54 |
| 8 | Connah's Quay | 52 |
| – | Broughton | 44 |
| 9 | Hawarden | 43 |
| 10 | Conwy | 41 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.11 | Buckley | 39 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Broughton by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 38.7 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 49% lower 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: 10.7 per 10,000 people, 3.1x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.5 per 10,000 people, 6% lower than the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.29pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than 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%
- 22.4% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 45% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,483 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Flintshire council
Have a crap-off
Broughton 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.