Crap Towns / Clwyd / Buckley
Buckley
39/100Crap Score
599th crappest of 984 towns, and 11th in Clwyd. 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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Bring cash. Nowhere to get it.
Brick town. The banks have gone and the shops are emptying.
Buckley made bricks and pots and dug coal. Now it mostly argues about the speed limit. The banks have gone, the shops are emptying and the old buildings are coming down for flats. Locals reckon Mold gets everything.
There's 1 hairdresser on the map for the whole town, so a fair bit of Buckley's cutting its own. The sewers spill worse than most. The duck pond on the Common's nice. Lovely.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Buckley's 87 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 87% of towns.
- Sewage spills87/1001,285 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain75/100151 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour58/10016.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Food hygiene44/1002.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 49 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping44/10010.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Flintshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Broadband32/1004.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.2% across the Flintshire council area
- Criminal damage and arson28/1005.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution19/1005.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions9/1001.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Colwyn Bay | 78 |
| 4 | Prestatyn | 71 |
| 5 | Wrexham | 66 |
| 6 | Flint | 63 |
| 7 | Rhosllannerchrugog | 54 |
| 8 | Connah's Quay | 52 |
| 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.
Buckley by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 54.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 29% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.5 per 10,000 people, 56% lower than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 6 pubs, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 13) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.7 per 10,000 people, 56% lower than the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.54pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 60% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 2.5% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 84% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,465 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
Buckley 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.