Crap Towns / Clwyd / Conwy
Conwy
41/100Crap Score
Anyone born inside the walls is a Jackdaw.
583rd crappest of 984 towns, and 10th in Clwyd. Higher scores are crapper.
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Leave the car in Llandudno.
Castle, town walls, and a delivery van wedged in an arch built for a horse.
Conwy is a medieval walled town that gets the whole summer's traffic shoved through it. Vans get stuck in the gateways, coaches can't turn and nobody can park. The gulls nick your chips because some idiot keeps feeding them.
There's rain on 152 days a year, so it's a wet castle and a wet queue. There are nearly twice the typical town's pubs per head and nearly three times its public bogs, which is about the right ratio. It's a cracking castle. Just don't bring the car. Seriously.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Conwy's 76 for rain means it's crapper than 76% of towns.
- Rain76/100152 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills69/100586 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping68/10014.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Conwy council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Anti-social behaviour50/10015.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Criminal damage and arson41/1006.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband40/1004.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 11.7% across the Conwy council area
- Serious road collisions38/1002.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene6/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 98 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution3/1003.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.7 of fine particles, 2024 average
| 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.
Conwy by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 55.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 27% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.9 per 10,000 people, 44% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 0 of 2 bathing waters here or within 2 km rated Excellent in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 15 pubs, 12 hairdressers, 3 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 15) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 7 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 4.5 per 10,000 people, 2.8x the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.25pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 60% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 13.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 11% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,521 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Conwy council
Have a crap-off
Conwy 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.