Crap Towns / South Glamorgan / Rhoose
Rhoose
2/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 2. Higher scores are crapper.
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Rhoose. Next to the airport.
Rhoose is right next to Cardiff Airport. The planes are rarely a bother.
Rhoose is right next to Cardiff Airport, which is so quiet you barely hear a plane. It has the southernmost point of mainland Wales, quarry lakes and nice coastal walks. Hardly any crime.
They keep building houses without anything to go with them, the bus shelters on Fonmon Road are boarded up, and there are over three times the typical town's play spaces per head with the new trees dying round them. That's the lot. Annoyingly.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Rhoose's 78 for rain means it's crapper than 78% of towns.
- Rain78/100153 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills65/100493 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Food hygiene39/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 14 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband22/1002.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.0% across the Vale of Glamorgan council area
- Air pollution8/1005.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Criminal damage and arson6/1003.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions3/1000.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour2/1005.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping0/1001.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Vale of Glamorgan council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cardiff | 63 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.2 | Barry | 15 |
| 3 | Penarth | 8 |
| – | Rhoose | 2 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Rhoose by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 39.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 49% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of broken street lights on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 2.9 per 10,000 people, 4.1x the typical town's 0.7
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.26am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2.2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 5.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Better: 67% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,713 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 12% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Vale of Glamorgan council
Have a crap-off
Rhoose 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.