Crap Towns / Wiltshire / Ludgershall
Ludgershall
11/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 11. Higher scores are crapper.
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Ludgershall. Not much to report.
Ruined castle, army depots and nothing much else.
Ludgershall is annoyingly decent. Low crime, safe roads, and the sewers behave. The castle's a ruin and the army's next door. The only moans are drivers speeding through the estates, the zebra crossing on Empress Way worn away and the High Street pavements cracked to bits. There are four times the typical town's parks per head. No swimming pool, mind. Somebody ring the papers.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Ludgershall's 63 for broadband means it's crapper than 63% of towns.
- Broadband63/1003.8% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 23.1% across the Wiltshire council area
- Food hygiene61/1006.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 16 food businesses with a rating
- Rain56/100131 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour49/10015.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson34/1005.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping21/1005.5 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Wiltshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution19/1005.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires18/1002.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Serious road collisions11/1001.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Chippenham | 29 |
| 8 | Calne | 24 |
| 9 | Westbury | 24 |
| 10 | Stratton St Margaret | 22 |
| 11 | Amesbury | 20 |
| 12 | Royal Wootton Bassett | 16 |
| 13 | Tidworth | 11 |
| – | Ludgershall | 11 |
| 14 | Corsham | 5 |
Ludgershall by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 61.1 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 20% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 3.7 per 10,000 people, 9% higher than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Better: 1.9 per 10,000 people, 19% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.29am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.9% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 1.8x the typical town's 0.5%
- 17.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 14% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,605 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Wiltshire council
Have a crap-off
Ludgershall 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.