Crap Towns / Warwickshire / Cawston
Cawston
11/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 11. Higher scores are crapper.
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Which one's mine?
A housing estate that thinks it's a village. Good luck finding your front door.
Cawston is a big new estate on the edge of Rugby where every house looks like the last. It's quiet, it's safe and you need a car to buy a pint of milk, because the buses barely bother on a Sunday. The land meant for the community got more houses on it. Obviously.
The one thing going wrong is the fly-tipping. Rugby council's rate is twice the typical council's, and it logged 4,488 dumps in a single year. Somebody's driving a fridge out past all these identical cul-de-sacs, and nobody can tell which drive it came from.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Cawston's 85 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 85% of towns.
- Fly-tipping85/10022.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rugby council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution43/1006.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene42/100
- Broadband36/1006.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 7.1% across the Rugby council area
- Rain32/100121 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Deliberate fires31/1004.1 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour26/10011.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson5/1003.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Serious road collisions1/1000.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bedworth | 70 |
| 2 | Warwick | 64 |
| 3 | Nuneaton | 62 |
| 4 | Rugby | 54 |
| 5 | Royal Leamington Spa | 46 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.6 | Stratford-upon-Avon | 37 |
| 7 | Kenilworth | 26 |
| – | Cawston | 11 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Cawston by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 34.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 55% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 7 reports of broken street lights on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 10.8 per 10,000 people, 15.4x the typical town's 0.7
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 10.52pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 40% lower than 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%
- 1,527 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Rugby council
- £2,483 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £91 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
Cawston 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.