Crap Towns / Worcestershire / Hollywood
Hollywood
13/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 13. Higher scores are crapper.
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No stars. Barely a pub.
It's called Hollywood. It's on the edge of Birmingham. Manage your expectations.
Hollywood is on the edge of Birmingham, and that's as glamorous as it gets. No stars, no red carpet and barely a pub, though there are plenty of hairdressers for anyone getting ready for the premiere. Hollywood Brook floods, you can't get a GP appointment and they keep wanting more houses.
Getting home from the big night out is the real drama. Midweek there's no bus after 7.24pm, and on a Sunday there are 24 departures all day. Not much park, no pool. Annoyingly decent otherwise. About as Hollywood as a bus shelter.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Hollywood's 75 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 75% of towns.
- Fly-tipping75/10016.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Bromsgrove council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution66/1009.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Rain60/100134 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband43/1003.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.9% across the Bromsgrove council area
- Food hygiene35/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 20 food businesses with a rating
- Serious road collisions20/1001.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires16/1002.6 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour13/1008.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson12/1004.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evesham | 47 |
| 2 | Kidderminster | 47 |
| 3 | Stourport-on-Severn | 40 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.4 | Redditch | 35 |
| 5 | Worcester | 29 |
| 6 | Great Malvern | 27 |
| 7 | Bromsgrove | 26 |
| 8 | Catshill | 19 |
| – | Hollywood | 13 |
| 9 | Droitwich Spa | 2 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Hollywood by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 55.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 27% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of abandoned vehicles on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 4.3 per 10,000 people, 4.8x the typical town's 0.9
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub, 6 hairdressers on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 7.24pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- Under 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Far lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 21.4% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 38% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,515 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Bromsgrove council
- £2,479 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £87 more than the English average
- 18% of Worcestershire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 13% higher than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Hollywood 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.