Crap Towns / Clwyd / Mold
Mold
68/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 68. Higher scores are crapper.
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agree it's crap have defended it
Mold. Even the cape left.
Mold's famous gold cape is in the British Museum. The vandals stayed behind.
Mold has a good market and a famous Bronze Age gold cape, which lives in London now. Smart cape. The town centre's vape shops, charity shops, Greggs and pubs, with nearly seven times the typical town's vape shops per head.
Barclays, Halifax, NatWest and Santander have all shut their branches. There's more bother and vandalism than a little market town should have, with criminal damage at 1.8 times the typical town's rate, and sewage comes out of the overflows for over six times as long as in the typical town. There are hardly any buses after 7pm, so you're stuck with it. Lovely.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Mold's 93 for criminal damage and arson means it's crapper than 93% of towns.
- Criminal damage and arson93/10012.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour93/10029.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills92/1001,796 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain75/100151 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband57/1009.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.2% across the Flintshire council area
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Serious road collisions44/1002.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Fly-tipping44/10010.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Flintshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution13/1005.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene6/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 97 food businesses with a rating
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhyl | 94 |
| 2 | Llandudno | 87 |
| 3 | Colwyn Bay | 78 |
| 4 | Prestatyn | 71 |
| – | Mold | 68 |
| 5 | Wrexham | 66 |
| 6 | Flint | 63 |
| 7 | Rhosllannerchrugog | 54 |
| 8 | Connah's Quay | 52 |
Mold by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 108 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 42% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 10 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 10.1 per 10,000 people, 3x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 11 pubs, 7 hairdressers, 3 charity shops, 2 vape shops, 3 banks, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 19) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 4 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Worse: 40.4 per 100,000 people, 11.9x the typical town's 3.4
- 6 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 6.1 per 10,000 people, 3.8x the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.07pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier 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%
- 3.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 81% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,453 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 5% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Flintshire council
Have a crap-off
Mold 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.