Crap Towns / Lancashire / Euxton
Euxton
35/100Crap Score
638th crappest of 984 towns, and 32nd in Lancashire. 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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Sleep tight, it was a bomb factory.
It's spelt Euxton and said Exton. That's the most interesting thing about it.
Euxton is said Exton, and that's the most exciting thing about it. They built a huge estate on the old Royal Ordnance factory at Buckshaw, so half the place sleeps where they used to fill shells. Crime's low and the kitchens are clean. Otherwise it's all right. Just all right.
For all those new houses, there's about a fifth of the typical town's buses on a weekday evening. The Environment Agency has logged 11 serious pollution incidents round here since 2016, 3 of them major. Runshaw Lane's a racetrack and the school run parks across everyone's drive.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Euxton's 84 for rain means it's crapper than 84% of towns.
- Rain84/100161 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills72/100648 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour63/10017.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions53/1002.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Air pollution45/1008.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband28/1004.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.9% across the Chorley council area
- Fly-tipping28/1007.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Chorley council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires18/1003.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Food hygiene15/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 61 food businesses with a rating
- Criminal damage and arson7/1003.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | Heysham | 63 |
| 27 | Barnoldswick | 63 |
| 28 | Poulton-le-Fylde | 61 |
| 29 | Ormskirk | 51 |
| 30 | Thornton | 48 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.31 | Lytham St Anne's | 39 |
| 32 | Euxton | 35 |
| 33 | Penwortham | 34 |
| 34 | Longton | 25 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Euxton by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 35.8 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 53% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of abandoned vehicles on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 1.1 per 10,000 people, 22% higher than the typical town's 0.9
- 11 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 3 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 3 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 1.7 per 10,000 people, 6% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
- 1 place on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.15pm last bus out on a Wednesday, and none on a Sunday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.5% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 0.5%
- 2.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 86% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,386 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 10% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Chorley council
- £2,430 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £38 more than the English average
- 26% of Lancashire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 1.6x England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Euxton 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.