Crap Towns / Clwyd / Flint
Flint
63/100Crap Score
365th crappest of 984 towns, and 6th in Clwyd. Higher scores are crapper.
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Flint. Castle, then McDonald's.
A castle on the Dee, cut off from town by a main road, a railway and a lot of scrapping.
Flint's got a proper castle on the Dee and a main road and a railway making sure nobody can walk to it from the shops. The full tourist day out is the castle, then McDonald's, then home.
The town centre's charity shops, at over three times the typical town's per head, and somebody's nicking from them, with shoplifting at well over twice the typical town's rate. There's 1 hairdresser on the map, so the lads scrapping outside the pub have all cut their own. Holywell fans have plenty to say about it. They're not wrong.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Flint's 87 for anti-social behaviour means it's crapper than 87% of towns.
- Anti-social behaviour87/10024.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson73/1008.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain69/100144 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions66/1002.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills61/100438 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Fly-tipping44/10010.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Flintshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Broadband42/1005.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.2% across the Flintshire council area
- Air pollution16/1005.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene15/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 61 food businesses with a rating
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Llandudno | 87 |
| 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 |
Flint by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 86.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 13% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 14 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 11.0 per 10,000 people, 3.2x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 8 pubs, 1 hairdresser, 6 charity shops, 1 vape shop, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 16) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 7.8 per 100,000 people, 2.3x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.8 per 10,000 people, 50% lower than the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.39pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 20% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 0.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: Against the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,506 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Flintshire council
Have a crap-off
Flint 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.