Crap Towns / Warwickshire / Bulkington
Bulkington
52/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 52. Higher scores are crapper.
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Bulkington. Not Bedworth. Yet.
A village fighting off new houses and the slow creep of Bedworth. It's losing.
Bulkington used to weave ribbons, and now spends all day making sure it doesn't turn into Bedworth. The developers reckon otherwise. The green belt keeps getting houses stuck on it, the roads get busier and crossing the street takes nerve.
For a village this precious about its fields, there's hardly any public park: 0.4 square metres a head. The overflows nearby run for nearly four times as long as the typical town's, so it's not as fresh as it thinks it is.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bulkington's 84 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 84% of towns.
- Sewage spills84/1001,070 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping67/10014.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Nuneaton and Bedworth council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution66/1009.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband64/10012.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.3% across the Nuneaton and Bedworth council area
- Deliberate fires57/1006.5 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Rain52/100129 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions52/1002.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene32/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 25 food businesses with a rating
- Anti-social behaviour22/10010.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson22/1005.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bedworth | 70 |
| 2 | Warwick | 64 |
| 3 | Nuneaton | 62 |
| 4 | Rugby | 54 |
| – | Bulkington | 52 |
| 5 | Royal Leamington Spa | 46 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.6 | Stratford-upon-Avon | 37 |
| 7 | Kenilworth | 26 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Bulkington by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 47.4 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 38% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 26 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 45.9 per 10,000 people, 13.5x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.35pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 34.9% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.3x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,535 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Nuneaton and Bedworth council
- £2,502 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £110 more than the English average
- 13% of Warwickshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 19% lower than England's 16%
- 2 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Bulkington 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.