Crap Towns / North Lanarkshire / Chapelhall
Chapelhall
24/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 24. Higher scores are crapper.
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Chapelhall. It's raining again.
A quiet old pit village outside Airdrie, where it rains on 177 days a year and nobody bothers shoplifting.
Chapelhall used to dig coal and make iron and bricks. Now it's houses, a lot of new houses, and a pub. The old community centre went and the new one's still being talked about. It rains here on 177 days a year, more than Airdrie, and Airdrie's soaking. Next, somebody wants to stick a data centre on it.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Chapelhall's 96 for rain means it's crapper than 96% of towns.
- Rain96/100177 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping50/100
- Food hygiene47/1004.6% told to improve, of the 22 food businesses inspected
- Sewage spills41/100193 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2025
- Serious road collisions34/1001.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Air pollution33/1008.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires30/10011.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour21/1005.5 per 1,000 people a year, January 2023 to December 2025
- Criminal damage and arson18/1004.8 per 1,000 people a year, January 2023 to December 2025
- Broadband16/1002.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.6% across the North Lanarkshire council area
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Motherwell | 90 |
| 2 | Coatbridge | 85 |
| 3 | Airdrie | 83 |
| 4 | Wishaw | 75 |
| 5 | Bellshill | 73 |
| 6 | Kilsyth | 61 |
| 7 | Viewpark | 53 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.8 | Cumbernauld | 34 |
| – | Chapelhall | 24 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Chapelhall by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 30.1 crimes per 1,000 people a year (January 2023 to December 2025) Better: 45% lower than the typical Scottish town's 54.4
- 2 reports of graffiti and fly-posting on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 10.19pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Against the typical town's 0.5%
- 3.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 79% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,284 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 16% lower than the typical town's 1,532
North Lanarkshire council
- £1,555 Band D council tax (2026-27) Better: £98 less than the Scottish average
- 33% of North Lanarkshire council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 8% lower than Scotland's 36%
- 119 ombudsman complaints decided in 2025-26, none upheld About the same: 34.9 per 100,000 residents, about the same as Scotland's 34.7
- 87.9% of the streets checked passed as clean (2025-26) About the same: About the same as Scotland's 92.2%
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Chapelhall 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.