Crap Towns / Mid Glamorgan / Pyle
Pyle
25/100Crap Score
738th crappest of 984 towns, and 12th in Mid Glamorgan. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Pyle. That's the actual name.
A town called Pyle with a fly-tipping problem. You couldn't make it up.
Pyle is a town called Pyle, and its big moan is people dumping piles of rubbish on Ffald Lane. That's not a joke, it's just true. It used to do coal, coke and iron and now it has an industrial estate called Village Farm with no farm.
It chucks it down on 164 days a year, there's no park on the map and there's 1 hairdresser. The dunes at Kenfig are nice. Go there.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Pyle's 87 for rain means it's crapper than 87% of towns.
- Rain87/100164 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills61/100435 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping55/10010.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Bridgend council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Criminal damage and arson49/1007.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene41/1001.8% rated 0 to 2, of the 57 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband33/1005.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.9% across the Bridgend council area
- Anti-social behaviour21/10010.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution20/1006.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions1/1000.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Maesteg | 53 |
| 7 | Tonypandy | 52 |
| 8 | Mountain Ash | 49 |
| 9 | Tonyrefail | 44 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.10 | Church Village | 35 |
| 11 | Bridgend | 32 |
| 12 | Pyle | 25 |
| 13 | Sarn | 10 |
| 14 | Porthcawl | 9 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Pyle by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 74.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 76.2
- 14 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 9.9 per 10,000 people, 9x the typical town's 1.1
What's left on the high street
- 6 pubs, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 8.3% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (1 of 12) Worse: 2.1x the typical town's 4.0%
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 10.21pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- Under 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Far lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 13.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Better: 14% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,605 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Bridgend council
Have a crap-off
Pyle 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.