Crap Towns / Wiltshire / Durrington
Durrington
2/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 2. Higher scores are crapper.
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agree it's crap have defended it
An afternoon looking at concrete
It's got Woodhenge, which is like Stonehenge with the stones missing.
Durrington has its own prehistoric earthworks and Woodhenge, which is Stonehenge with concrete posts where the wood used to be. It's quiet, it's by the Avon, crime's low and the soldiers from Larkhill keep themselves to themselves. Then Stonehenge gets busy and all its traffic comes through here. Nobody sets fire to anything, nobody smashes anything and the sewers behave themselves. Smug little place.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Durrington's 62 for broadband means it's crapper than 62% of towns.
- Broadband62/1003.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 23.1% across the Wiltshire council area
- Food hygiene39/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 14 food businesses with a rating
- Rain36/100123 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour29/10011.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping21/1005.5 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Wiltshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Criminal damage and arson21/1005.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution15/1004.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions11/1000.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires6/1001.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Chippenham | 29 |
| 8 | Calne | 24 |
| 9 | Westbury | 24 |
| 10 | Stratton St Margaret | 22 |
| 11 | Amesbury | 20 |
| 12 | Royal Wootton Bassett | 16 |
| 13 | Tidworth | 11 |
| 14 | Corsham | 5 |
| – | Durrington | 2 |
Durrington by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 36.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 52% 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 About the same: 3.5 per 10,000 people, about the same as the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2019
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public swimming pool open Better: 1.7 per 10,000 people, 2.4x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.04am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.7% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 40% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 18.9% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 22% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,628 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 6% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Wiltshire council
Have a crap-off
Durrington 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.