Crap Towns / Clwyd / Connah's Quay
Connah's Quay
52/100Crap Score
470th crappest of 984 towns, and 8th in Clwyd. Higher scores are crapper.
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Shutters down, lorry stuck.
The Quay built ships once. Now it's shutters on the High Street and sewage in the Dee.
Connah's Quay had docks and built ships. Now the High Street's mostly shutters and the big event round here is a lorry getting stuck on Wepre Lane again. Traffic roars through and people park across the pavements.
The Dee gets the sewage, with the overflows running for eight times as long as the typical town's. Everyone lives a short walk from a park, fair play, which is handy, because Wepre Woods is the bit everyone likes. Go there. Don't stop on the way.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Connah's Quay's 95 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 95% of towns.
- Sewage spills95/1002,232 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain68/100141 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour58/10016.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene58/1004.4% rated 0 to 2, of the 23 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Criminal damage and arson48/1006.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband44/1006.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.2% across the Flintshire council area
- Fly-tipping44/10010.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Flintshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution22/1006.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions22/1001.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Colwyn Bay | 78 |
| 4 | Prestatyn | 71 |
| 5 | Wrexham | 66 |
| 6 | Flint | 63 |
| 7 | Rhosllannerchrugog | 54 |
| 8 | Connah's Quay | 52 |
| 9 | Hawarden | 43 |
| 10 | Conwy | 41 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.11 | Buckley | 39 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Connah's Quay by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 65.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 14% 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: 3.6 per 10,000 people, 6% higher than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.34pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.4% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 20% 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%
- 1,468 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Flintshire council
Have a crap-off
Connah's Quay 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.