Crap Towns / Mid Glamorgan / Llanharan and Brynna
Llanharan and Brynna
31/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 31. Higher scores are crapper.
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Lovely woods, if you can reach them.
Old pit villages with good rugby, nice woods and a main road choked solid.
Llanharan and Brynna are old pit villages with a rugby club, some nice woods and hardly any crime. The trouble is the traffic, which chokes the main road while everyone waits for a bypass that's taking forever. Add the school run, the scramblers and the hedges growing over the pavement.
It chucks it down on 171 days a year, twice the typical town's rainfall, and the water company lets sewage out for over 12 times as long as in the typical town. There's 1 pub between the two villages, which in that weather is cruel.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Llanharan and Brynna's 98 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 98% of towns.
- Sewage spills98/1003,382 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain93/100171 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping71/10015.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rhondda Cynon Taf council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Broadband60/1005.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 18.6% across the Rhondda Cynon Taf council area
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Food hygiene31/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 28 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution14/1005.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Anti-social behaviour13/1008.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson8/1003.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions1/1000.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Tonypandy | 52 |
| 8 | Mountain Ash | 49 |
| 9 | Tonyrefail | 44 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.10 | Church Village | 35 |
| 11 | Bridgend | 32 |
| – | Llanharan and Brynna | 31 |
| 12 | Pyle | 25 |
| 13 | Sarn | 10 |
| 14 | Porthcawl | 9 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Llanharan and Brynna by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 46.6 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 39% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of broken street lights on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 2.5 per 10,000 people, 3.6x the typical town's 0.7
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.05am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as 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%
- 9.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,531 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Rhondda Cynon Taf council
Have a crap-off
Llanharan and Brynna 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.