Crap Towns / Gloucestershire / Kingswood and Fishponds
Kingswood and Fishponds
39/100Crap Score
Locals call them the Wood and Fishy P.
600th crappest of 984 towns, and 6th in Gloucestershire. Higher scores are crapper.
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It's seen better days.
Fishponds Road is noise and traffic. Kingswood High Street looks like nobody's bothered since the pits shut.
Kingswood was a mining area, and the High Street looks like nobody's bothered since. Fishponds has a long shopping street, a bingo hall and Fishponds Road, which is traffic and noise all bloody day. People park wherever they like, and the pavements are cracked and covered in litter.
The banks have announced 7 branch closures. The air's over the health guideline for nitrogen dioxide, which on Fishponds Road you could have guessed from the taste. The buses run all night, mind, so there's no excuse for staying. Shabby, mate.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Kingswood and Fishponds's 67 for air pollution means it's crapper than 67% of towns.
- Air pollution67/10010.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband65/1008.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.6% across the South Gloucestershire council area
- Rain65/100138 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene63/1003.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 604 food businesses with a rating
- Serious road collisions52/1002.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills43/100206 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Deliberate fires38/1005.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson31/1005.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour26/10011.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping26/1007.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, South Gloucestershire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Gloucester | 66 |
| 3 | Patchway | 57 |
| 4 | Cheltenham | 54 |
| 5 | Stroud | 44 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.6 | Kingswood and Fishponds | 39 |
| 7 | Tewkesbury | 38 |
| 8 | Quedgeley and Hardwicke | 37 |
| 9 | Cirencester | 36 |
| 10 | Brockworth | 31 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Kingswood and Fishponds by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 75.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 76.2
- 2,052 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 128 per 10,000 people, 116.4x the typical town's 1.1
- 6 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 71 pubs, 118 hairdressers, 22 charity shops, 13 bookmakers, 6 vape shops, 11 banks, 3 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 5.9% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (5 of 85) Worse: 48% higher than the typical town's 4.0%
- 7 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Worse: 4.4 per 100,000 people, 29% higher than the typical town's 3.4
- 20 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.2 per 10,000 people, 25% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 7 public swimming pools open; 1 closed for good since 2010 Worse: 0.4 per 10,000 people, 43% lower than the typical English town's 0.7
- 3 places on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- All night buses on a Wednesday Better: The typical town's last bus goes at 12.14am
- 0.8% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 1.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 16.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space About the same: About the same as the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,596 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
South Gloucestershire council
- £2,551 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £159 more than the English average
- 9% of South Gloucestershire council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 44% lower than England's 16%
- 12 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Kingswood and Fishponds 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.