Crap Towns / South Glamorgan / Llantwit Major
Llantwit Major
2/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 2. Higher scores are crapper.
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Llantwit Major. Bit too pleased.
Fossils on the beach, a medieval old town and a bathing water rated Excellent. Insufferable.
Llantwit Major has fossils on the beach, big cliffs and a medieval old town, and almost nothing goes wrong. No crime to speak of, no fly-tipping, safe roads, and the beach came out Excellent for bathing. So the locals moan about the banks closing, the bins overflowing and the signs to the beach.
They moan about the buses too, which run later than the typical town's and more often after dark. There's a Greggs at six times the typical town's per head. Outsiders call it Llantwat Major. That's as rough as it gets.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Llantwit Major's 79 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 79% of towns.
- Sewage spills79/100843 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain74/100150 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Broadband27/1003.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.0% across the Vale of Glamorgan council area
- Food hygiene22/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 46 food businesses with a rating
- Anti-social behaviour11/1008.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson10/1004.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution4/1004.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions1/1000.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Fly-tipping0/1001.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Vale of Glamorgan council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cardiff | 63 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.2 | Barry | 15 |
| 3 | Penarth | 8 |
| – | Llantwit Major | 2 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Llantwit Major by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 49.7 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 35% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 18 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 33.7 per 10,000 people, 9.9x the typical town's 3.4
- Excellent Col-Huw Beach (Llantwit Major)'s bathing water rating, 2025
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 5 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 2 banks, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 18.7 per 100,000 people, 5.5x the typical town's 3.4
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 3.7 per 10,000 people, 2.3x the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.50am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 14.5% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 6% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,684 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 10% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Vale of Glamorgan council
Have a crap-off
Llantwit Major 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.