Crap Towns / Gloucestershire / Filton
Filton
70/100Crap Score
297th crappest of 984 towns, and the crappest in Gloucestershire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Supersonic, and the bus takes an hour
Filton built Concorde. Now the airfield's housing and the buses crawl into Bristol.
Filton built Concorde, and the last one landed here. They stuck it in a museum and built houses all over the airfield. Now the buses into Bristol crawl, the motorway traffic spills onto the local roads, and the temporary lights have moved in for good. The bad crashes happen at twice the typical town's rate.
Plenty of buses, mind, all night long. They're just in the queue with everyone else. Burglary and robbery are well up on the typical town, bikes go missing at over five times its rate, and the air's over the health guideline for nitrogen dioxide. Filton's the crappest town in Gloucestershire, which Gloucester will be delighted to hear. Supersonic, that.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Filton's 95 for serious road collisions means it's crapper than 95% of towns.
- Serious road collisions95/1004.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Air pollution71/10012.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Criminal damage and arson71/1008.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene70/1004.6% rated 0 to 2, of the 66 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband68/1009.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.6% across the South Gloucestershire council area
- Deliberate fires64/1007.9 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Rain61/100135 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills41/100194 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour39/10013.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping26/1007.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, South Gloucestershire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Filton | 70 |
| 2 | Gloucester | 66 |
| 3 | Patchway | 57 |
| 4 | Cheltenham | 54 |
| 5 | Stroud | 44 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.6 | Kingswood and Fishponds | 39 |
| 7 | Tewkesbury | 38 |
| 8 | Quedgeley and Hardwicke | 37 |
| 9 | Cirencester | 36 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Filton by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 99.7 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 31% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 47 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 42.9 per 10,000 people, 12.6x the typical town's 3.4
- 7 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
- Excellent Henleaze Lake's bathing water rating, 2025
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 10 hairdressers, 5 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 1 vape shop, 1 bank, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 6.7% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (1 of 15) Worse: 1.7x the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 9.1 per 100,000 people, 2.7x the typical town's 3.4
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 1.8 per 10,000 people, 13% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- 3 public swimming pools open Better: 2.7 per 10,000 people, 3.9x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- All night buses on a Wednesday Better: The typical town's last bus goes at 12.14am
- 0.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 20% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 24.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 1.6x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,612 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 5% higher than the typical town's 1,532
South Gloucestershire council
- £2,551 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £159 more than the English average
- 9% of South Gloucestershire council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 44% lower than England's 16%
- 12 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
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- ?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.