Crap Towns / West Glamorgan / Pontarddulais
Pontarddulais
21/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 21. Higher scores are crapper.
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agree it's crap have defended it
Sings nicely. Can't park.
Famous male voice choir, a good rugby club, and a one-way system that goes nowhere.
Pontarddulais has a famous male voice choir, a rugby club and Hendy across the river to look down on. It's safe and quiet and nobody causes trouble. Every new estate adds more cars and more queues at the surgery.
There's rain on 173 days a year, 52% of the Bont lives over 400 metres from a park or a swing, and there's no bus at all on a Sunday. So it's a wet walk to choir practice. Otherwise, sorry, it's nice.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Pontarddulais's 94 for rain means it's crapper than 94% of towns.
- Rain94/100173 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills75/100721 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Food hygiene45/1002.1% rated 0 to 2, of the 48 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping44/10010.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Swansea council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Criminal damage and arson36/1006.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband36/1005.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 8.4% across the Swansea council area
- Anti-social behaviour15/1009.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution5/1004.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions1/1000.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Port Talbot | 53 |
| 2 | Swansea | 46 |
| 3 | Neath | 40 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.4 | Baglan | 32 |
| 5 | Gorseinon | 25 |
| – | Pontarddulais | 21 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Pontarddulais by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 53.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 30% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 4.6 per 10,000 people, 35% higher than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs, 1 hairdresser 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
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.20pm last bus out on a Wednesday, and none on a Sunday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 52.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 3.4x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,509 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Swansea council
Have a crap-off
Pontarddulais 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.