Crap Towns / Mid Glamorgan / Porth
Porth
76/100Crap Score
234th crappest of 984 towns, and the crappest in Mid Glamorgan. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Corona pop came from here. Then nothing.
Corona pop started here. The factory's a TV studio now. That's the good news.
Porth is where the Rhondda valleys meet, and where Corona pop was made. The pop works is a TV studio now. The town centre is vape shops and Greggs, with over seven times the typical town's vape shops per head. A rowdy lot hang about making a racket and off-road bikes tear about.
It's wet on 180 days a year, and the rivers get the storm overflows too, spilling for nearly 12 times as long per head as the typical town's. Porth comes out the crappest town in Mid Glamorgan, ahead of the whole Rhondda. Gateway to the Rhondda, they say. Keep going.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Porth's 98 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 98% of towns.
- Sewage spills98/1003,255 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain98/100180 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband95/10025.8% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 18.6% across the Rhondda Cynon Taf council area
- Fly-tipping71/10015.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rhondda Cynon Taf council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Anti-social behaviour61/10016.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson51/1007.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Food hygiene48/1002.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 87 food businesses with a rating
- Serious road collisions30/1001.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Air pollution21/1006.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porth | 76 |
| 2 | Rhondda | 71 |
| 3 | Merthyr Tydfil | 69 |
| 4 | Aberdare | 68 |
| 5 | Pontypridd | 57 |
| 6 | Maesteg | 53 |
| 7 | Tonypandy | 52 |
| 8 | Mountain Ash | 49 |
| 9 | Tonyrefail | 44 |
Porth by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 86.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 13% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 18 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 13.5 per 10,000 people, 12.3x the typical town's 1.1
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs, 13 hairdressers, 3 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 3 vape shops, 2 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 15) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 7 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 5.2 per 10,000 people, 3.3x the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.31am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.5% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 0.5%
- 8.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 48% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,493 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Rhondda Cynon Taf council
Have a crap-off
Porth 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.