Crap Towns / Somerset / Clevedon
Clevedon
3/100Crap Score
959th crappest of 984 towns, and 16th in Somerset. 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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Still arguing about a road.
A gorgeous pier, a marine lake, and a town that's been rowing about a road for years.
Clevedon has a gorgeous Victorian pier, a marine lake and hardly any crime. So it spends all its energy rowing about the seafront road, cycle lanes against parking, year after year after bloody year. Visitors block the driveways and the locals sit in their cars staring at the sea. That's a night out. That and the charity shops.
The broadband's crap, with 2.7% of premises unable to get superfast, and Lloyds and NatWest have both cleared off. The buses stop at 2.19am, which nobody in Clevedon has ever been up for.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Clevedon's 67 for rain means it's crapper than 67% of towns.
- Rain67/100141 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband45/1006.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 10.6% across the North Somerset council area
- Fly-tipping38/1009.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, North Somerset council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene33/1001.6% rated 0 to 2, of the 122 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution24/1006.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Sewage spills23/10052.4 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Serious road collisions15/1001.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson7/1003.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour5/1006.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires4/1001.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Minehead | 33 |
| 10 | Frome | 31 |
| 11 | Wellington | 27 |
| 12 | Street | 17 |
| 13 | Portishead | 16 |
| 14 | Wells | 15 |
| 15 | Burnham-on-Sea | 11 |
| 16 | Clevedon | 3 |
| 17 | Nailsea | 1 |
Clevedon by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 47.8 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 37% 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: 0.9 per 10,000 people, 74% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- Good Clevedon Beach's bathing water rating, 2025
What's left on the high street
- 13 pubs, 12 hairdressers, 7 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 1 vape shop, 2 banks, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 2 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Worse: 9.5 per 100,000 people, 2.8x the typical town's 3.4
- 8 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 3.8 per 10,000 people, 2.4x the typical town's 1.6
- 2 public swimming pools open Better: 0.9 per 10,000 people, 29% higher than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 2.19am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 2.7% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 5.4x the typical town's 0.5%
- 41.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.7x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,699 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 11% higher than the typical town's 1,532
North Somerset council
- £2,491 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £99 more than the English average
- 4% of North Somerset council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 75% lower than England's 16%
- 7 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Clevedon 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.