Crap Towns / Suffolk / Bungay
Bungay
41/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 41. Higher scores are crapper.
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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27
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Turn left at the chickens.
Famous for a ghost dog and a roundabout that used to have chickens living on it.
Bungay's big legend is Black Shuck, a giant ghost dog. The other landmark is a roundabout that had chickens living on it. The chickens got a memorial, and locals still give directions by them. Someone calls it Little London. Nobody knows why.
The castle's made the Heritage at Risk register. The storm overflows spill for 3.4 times as long as the typical town's, and some bright spark's smashing things up at 41% above the typical town's rate. The lorries come straight through, people speed and there's nowhere to park. Black Shuck's welcome to it.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bungay's 81 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 81% of towns.
- Sewage spills81/100921 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson80/1009.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour63/10011.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband50/1005.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.6% across the East Suffolk council area
- Food hygiene44/1002.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 50 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution37/1006.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Rain32/100121 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping30/1007.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, East Suffolk council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires25/1003.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Serious road collisions17/1001.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| – | Bungay | 41 |
| 1 | Lowestoft | 40 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.2 | Sudbury | 30 |
| 3 | Ipswich | 15 |
| 4 | Haverhill | 11 |
| 5 | Newmarket | 9 |
| 6 | Stowmarket | 7 |
| 7 | Felixstowe | 6 |
| 8 | Woodbridge | 4 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Bungay by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 52.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 31% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 6 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 12.0 per 10,000 people, 3.5x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 7 hairdressers, 4 charity shops on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.0 per 10,000 people, 25% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Better: 2.0 per 10,000 people, 2.9x the typical English town's 0.7
- 1 place on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.12am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.5% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 0.5%
- 15.4% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space About the same: About the same as the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,629 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 6% higher than the typical town's 1,532
East Suffolk council
- £2,335 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £57 less than the English average
- 22% of Suffolk County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 38% higher than England's 16%
- 1 ombudsman complaint upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Bungay 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.