Crap Towns / Devon / Kingsteignton
Kingsteignton
26/100Crap Score
731st crappest of 984 towns, and 12th in Devon. Higher scores are crapper.
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Dusty, mainly.
They cook a whole ram every year and moan about a McDonald's the rest of the time.
Kingsteignton, K-Town if you're local, digs clay out of the ground and lets the dust drift over everybody. Its big day is the fair where they cook a whole ram in the open, and its big fight was over a McDonald's in case it brought smells.
Crime's about half the typical town's, and there's 1 hairdresser on the map for the whole of K-Town, so everyone's dusty and shaggy. The drains flood and the sewage spills are worse than most. Mind the dust.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Kingsteignton's 89 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 89% of towns.
- Sewage spills89/1001,440 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Food hygiene66/1004.6% rated 0 to 2, of the 44 food businesses with a rating
- Rain64/100137 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband62/1003.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 23.1% across the Teignbridge council area
- Deliberate fires56/1006.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Fly-tipping28/1007.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Teignbridge council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Criminal damage and arson20/1004.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions14/1001.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Air pollution13/1004.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Anti-social behaviour9/1008.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Newton Abbot | 39 |
| 9 | Honiton | 37 |
| 10 | Dawlish | 31 |
| 11 | Tavistock | 27 |
| 12 | Kingsteignton | 26 |
| 13 | Teignmouth | 24 |
| 14 | Brixham | 23 |
| 15 | Ivybridge | 18 |
| 16 | Exmouth | 12 |
Kingsteignton by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 39.6 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 48% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of litter and bins on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 2.5 per 10,000 people, 2.8x the typical town's 0.9
What's left on the high street
- 6 pubs, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.8 per 10,000 people, 50% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Better: 0.8 per 10,000 people, 14% higher than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.59am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2.2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 14.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 10% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,656 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 8% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Teignbridge council
Have a crap-off
Kingsteignton 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.