Crap Towns / Somerset / Peasedown St John
Peasedown St John
27/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 27. Higher scores are crapper.
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Pull out onto the bypass. Go on. Try.
Old pit village on a hill that's turned out quite nice. Getting onto the bypass is the hard bit.
Peasedown St John is an old Somerset pit village on a hill, with the colliery spoil heap still in view. It's quiet, there's barely any crime and the roads are safe, apart from the junction onto the bypass, which they've wanted a roundabout at for years. The bus stopped coming down Orchard Way.
The kitchens are the problem. 11.8% of food places get a hygiene rating of 0 to 2, nearly five times the typical town's share. Pull out onto the bypass and eat somewhere else.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Peasedown St John's 77 for food hygiene means it's crapper than 77% of towns.
- Food hygiene77/10011.8% rated 0 to 2, of the 17 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband77/1009.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 20.7% across the Bath and North East Somerset council area
- Sewage spills74/100685 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain68/100142 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping60/10011.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Bath and North East Somerset council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution21/1005.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions10/1001.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour6/1007.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson5/1003.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires4/1001.0 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Yeovil | 34 |
| 9 | Minehead | 33 |
| 10 | Frome | 31 |
| 11 | Wellington | 27 |
| – | Peasedown St John | 27 |
| 12 | Street | 17 |
| 13 | Portishead | 16 |
| 14 | Wells | 15 |
| 15 | Burnham-on-Sea | 11 |
Peasedown St John by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 42.7 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 44% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 40 reports of litter and bins on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 60.0 per 10,000 people, 66.7x the typical town's 0.9
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) Worse: 1.5 per 10,000 people, 6% lower 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
- 12.31am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.8% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 1.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 7.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 54% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,586 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Bath and North East Somerset council
- £2,383 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £9 less than the English average
- 24% of Bath and North East Somerset council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 1.5x England's 16%
- 9 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Peasedown St John 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.