Crap Towns / Lancashire / Fulwood
Fulwood
82/100Crap Score
176th crappest of 984 towns, and 20th in Lancashire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Not as posh as it thinks.
A barracks, a hospital and a lot of traffic. The anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping are worse than most.
Fulwood's the leafy bit of Preston with the barracks and the hospital, and it reckons it's posh. Locals call it Fullhood, and they've got a point. Anti-social behaviour is running at 1.6 times the typical town's rate and so are the serious crashes, and Preston council records three times the typical council's fly-tipping.
There's one public toilet in the whole of Fulwood. With Garstang Road rammed at rush hour, you'd better have gone before you set off.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Fulwood's 94 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 94% of towns.
- Fly-tipping94/10035.4 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Preston council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions88/1003.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Rain82/100160 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour82/10022.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills64/100485 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Air pollution42/1008.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires41/1005.4 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson33/1005.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband25/1003.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 7.8% across the Preston council area
- Food hygiene25/1001.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 150 food businesses with a rating
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Oswaldtwistle | 95 |
| 17 | Blackpool | 92 |
| 18 | Fleetwood | 91 |
| 19 | Skelmersdale | 85 |
| 20 | Fulwood | 82 |
| 21 | Chorley | 81 |
| 22 | Clitheroe | 77 |
| 23 | Bamber Bridge | 72 |
| 24 | Leyland | 69 |
Fulwood by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 61.9 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 19% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 15 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 4.3 per 10,000 people, 3.9x the typical town's 1.1
- 5 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 8 pubs, 15 hairdressers, 3 charity shops, 2 bookmakers, 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 14) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 2 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Worse: 5.8 per 100,000 people, 1.7x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.3 per 10,000 people, 81% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 2 public swimming pools open Worse: 0.6 per 10,000 people, 14% lower than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.25am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as 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%
- 18.5% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 19% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,408 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 8% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Preston council
Have a crap-off
Fulwood 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.