Crap Towns / Hertfordshire / Moor Park
Moor Park
5/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 5. Higher scores are crapper.
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Moor Park. You're not coming in.
Big houses behind gates, a Tube station inside them, and endless rows about who gets through.
Moor Park is a private estate of enormous houses behind gates, with a Metropolitan line station plonked in the middle of it. So the residents spend their lives fighting over who's allowed through the gates and moaning about drivers using their private roads as a shortcut. Crime's under a third of the typical town's. No crime to speak of. No fun either.
All that money, and the broadband buffers. Superfast broadband misses 1.8% of premises, more than three times the typical town's share. It's called Moor Park, and 42.5% of the people live more than 400 metres from the nearest park or playground. They've all got gardens bigger than one, mind.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Moor Park's 96 for broadband means it's crapper than 96% of towns.
- Broadband96/10034.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 8.5% across the Three Rivers council area
- Air pollution86/10010.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions50/1002.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene39/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 15 food businesses with a rating
- Rain19/100117 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping10/1004.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Three Rivers council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires6/1001.1 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour0/1003.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson0/1002.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | St Albans | 18 |
| 20 | Ware | 8 |
| 21 | Sawbridgeworth | 7 |
| 22 | Hertford | 7 |
| 23 | Abbots Langley and Kings Langley | 7 |
| – | Moor Park | 5 |
| 24 | Rickmansworth | 4 |
| 25 | Harpenden | 3 |
| 26 | Chorleywood | 0 |
Moor Park by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 21.8 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 71% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 6 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 10.3 per 10,000 people, 3x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2018
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs, 2 hairdressers on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Better: 1.7 per 10,000 people, 6% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Better: 1.7 per 10,000 people, 2.4x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 8.12pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.8% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 3.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 42.5% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.7x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,622 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 6% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Three Rivers council
- £2,422 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £30 more than the English average
- 18% of Hertfordshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 13% higher than England's 16%
- 5 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Moor Park 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.