Crap Towns / Clwyd / Llandudno
Llandudno
87/100Crap Score
128th crappest of 984 towns, and 2nd in Clwyd. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Hold on to your chips.
Gorgeous Victorian seafront, goats in the streets and gulls that'll have your lunch.
Llandudno has the pier, the prom and the Great Orme, and goats that wander into town when they fancy it. The gulls take food out of your hand. The Queen of Welsh Resorts, they call it. She's had a few.
Behind the seafront it's bookies, charity shops and pubs, with nearly seven times the typical town's charity shops per head. Anti-social behaviour is up at three and a half times the typical town's rate and it's going up. Crime's over twice, shoplifting three and a half times. Colwyn Bay gets stick for its street drinkers. Llandudno's got a nerve.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Llandudno's 99 for anti-social behaviour means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Anti-social behaviour99/10049.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson97/10015.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions82/1003.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Rain70/100144 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping68/10014.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Conwy council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Sewage spills65/100497 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Broadband50/1006.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 11.7% across the Conwy council area
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Food hygiene34/1001.9% rated 0 to 2, of the 314 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution3/1003.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhyl | 94 |
| 2 | Llandudno | 87 |
| 3 | Colwyn Bay | 78 |
| 4 | Prestatyn | 71 |
| 5 | Wrexham | 66 |
| 6 | Flint | 63 |
| 7 | Rhosllannerchrugog | 54 |
| 8 | Connah's Quay | 52 |
| 9 | Hawarden | 43 |
Llandudno by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 158 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 2.1x the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 2.0 per 10,000 people, 1.8x the typical town's 1.1
- 0 of 2 bathing waters here or within 2 km rated Excellent in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 18 pubs, 11 hairdressers, 14 charity shops, 3 bookmakers, 1 vape shop, 9 banks, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 27) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 6.8 per 100,000 people, 2x the typical town's 3.4
- 8 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 5.4 per 10,000 people, 3.4x the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- midnight last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as 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%
- 10.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 30% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,568 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Conwy council
Have a crap-off
Llandudno 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.