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Quedgeley and Hardwicke
37/100Crap Score
622nd crappest of 984 towns, and 8th in Gloucestershire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Not much of anything.
Kingsway got built on an old RAF base. The aircraft took most of the excitement with them.
Quedgeley and Hardwicke are big estates on the edge of Gloucester, some of them built on an old RAF base. There's a canal, which is nice. The rest is the school run parked across junctions, roadworks and queues.
There are 4 pubs for the whole lot, well under half the typical town's per head, 1 public toilet and no public swimming pool. 66 premises don't even get the legal minimum broadband. It's not that bad. It's not that anything.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Quedgeley and Hardwicke's 68 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 68% of towns.
- Sewage spills68/100565 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping56/10010.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Gloucester council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene52/1002.7% rated 0 to 2, of the 75 food businesses with a rating
- Rain48/100127 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions41/1002.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Air pollution39/1007.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Anti-social behaviour36/10012.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires27/1004.1 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Broadband22/1004.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 5.2% across the Gloucester council area
- Criminal damage and arson15/1004.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Cheltenham | 54 |
| 5 | Stroud | 44 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.6 | Kingswood and Fishponds | 39 |
| 7 | Tewkesbury | 38 |
| 8 | Quedgeley and Hardwicke | 37 |
| 9 | Cirencester | 36 |
| 10 | Brockworth | 31 |
| 11 | Yate | 31 |
| 12 | Stoke Gifford | 30 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Quedgeley and Hardwicke by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 57.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 25% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 421 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 199 per 10,000 people, 58.5x the typical town's 3.4
- 5 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2021
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 1 charity shop, 1 bookmaker, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.5 per 10,000 people, 69% 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
- 11.37pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier 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%
- 8.9% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 43% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,571 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Gloucester council
- £2,356 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £36 less than the English average
- 26% of Gloucestershire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 1.6x England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Quedgeley and Hardwicke 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.