Crap Towns / Devon / Crediton
Crediton
32/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 32. Higher scores are crapper.
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Breathe in, here comes a tanker
A long High Street, every lorry in Devon and some very dodgy kitchens.
Crediton, Kirton to the locals, has a long High Street and every milk tanker in Devon squeezes down it. Noise, crossings you take your life in your hands on, and they've wanted a bypass forever. Funnily enough the air's cleaner than the typical town's, which rather spoils the bypass campaign.
The rest is charity shops, pubs and takeaways with some of the dodgiest kitchens about. There are over six times the typical town's public bogs per head, which after a Kirton takeaway you might need. Eat in Exeter.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Crediton's 82 for food hygiene means it's crapper than 82% of towns.
- Food hygiene82/1007.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 55 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband80/1004.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 32.8% across the Mid Devon council area
- Criminal damage and arson69/1008.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain66/100139 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills64/100486 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Serious road collisions30/1001.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Fly-tipping20/1006.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Mid Devon council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Anti-social behaviour18/10010.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution7/1003.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires7/1001.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Exeter | 45 |
| 7 | Bideford | 42 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.8 | Newton Abbot | 39 |
| 9 | Honiton | 37 |
| – | Crediton | 32 |
| 10 | Dawlish | 31 |
| 11 | Tavistock | 27 |
| 12 | Kingsteignton | 26 |
| 13 | Teignmouth | 24 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Crediton by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 75.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of dog fouling on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026
- 4 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 11 pubs, 8 hairdressers, 4 charity shops, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 12.5 per 100,000 people, 3.7x the typical town's 3.4
- 8 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 10.0 per 10,000 people, 6.3x the typical town's 1.6
- 2 public swimming pools open; 2 closed for good since 2010 Better: 2.5 per 10,000 people, 3.6x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.18am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- Under 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Far lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 4.5% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 71% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,571 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Mid Devon council
Have a crap-off
Crediton 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.