Crap Towns / Cambridgeshire / Huntingdon
Huntingdon
79/100Crap Score
206th crappest of 984 towns, and the crappest in Cambridgeshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Nice bridge. Use it to leave.
Lovely river, old bridge, and a town centre where the trouble starts after dark.
Huntingdon has the Great Ouse, a medieval bridge and nice walks across Portholme Meadow. Then there's the ring road, which is shit at any hour, and a town centre of charity shops and Greggs, with four times the typical town's Greggs per head.
Everyone in Huntingdon lives within 400 metres of a park or play space, and it rains on just 105 days a year. Lovely. The yobs are out enjoying it: anti-social behaviour comes in at nearly twice the typical town and it's going up. Leave your bike and it's gone.
Now they want to build on the bus station and the car park. The bridge to Godmanchester is the best bit.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Huntingdon's 90 for anti-social behaviour means it's crapper than 90% of towns.
- Anti-social behaviour90/10026.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson78/1009.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions75/1003.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Broadband74/10013.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 10.0% across the Huntingdonshire council area
- Fly-tipping68/10014.4 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Huntingdonshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution64/1007.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Sewage spills48/100253 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Food hygiene44/1002.2% rated 0 to 2, of the 137 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires40/100
- Rain0/100105 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntingdon | 79 |
| 2 | Wisbech | 78 |
| 3 | Peterborough | 70 |
| 4 | Cambridge | 63 |
| 5 | St Ives | 42 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.6 | Chatteris | 29 |
| 7 | March | 28 |
| 8 | Ely | 24 |
| 9 | St Neots | 18 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Huntingdon by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 96.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 26% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 29 reports of graffiti and fly-posting on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026
- 4 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 11 pubs, 7 hairdressers, 10 charity shops, 2 bookmakers, 1 vape shop, 7 banks, 3 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 20) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 2 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Worse: 7.8 per 100,000 people, 2.3x the typical town's 3.4
- 6 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.3 per 10,000 people, 44% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- 3 public swimming pools open; 1 closed for good since 2010 Better: 1.2 per 10,000 people, 1.7x the typical English town's 0.7
- 1 place on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.52am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.8% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 1.6x 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%
- 1,592 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Huntingdonshire council
- £2,556 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £164 more than the English average
- 7% of Cambridgeshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 56% lower than England's 16%
- 1 ombudsman complaint upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Huntingdon 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.