Crap Towns / West Midlands / Streetly
Streetly
16/100Crap Score
830th crappest of 984 towns, and 28th in the West Midlands. Higher scores are crapper.
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agree it's crap have defended it
Technically Walsall. Sorry, lads.
Sutton Coldfield postcode. Walsall bins. Don't mention the bins.
Streetly has a Sutton Coldfield address and Walsall council, and it knows which one it'd rather tell you about. Nothing happens here. The yobs, the vandals and the bin-burners all seem to have stayed in Walsall proper, and the crime rate is a fraction of the typical town's.
The snag is that Walsall sends the bill, £2,627 a year for a Band D home. And for all the bragging about Sutton Park on the doorstep, 56.7% of Streetly lives more than 400 metres from a park or play space, more than three times the typical town. The park's next door. It just isn't Streetly's.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Streetly's 87 for air pollution means it's crapper than 87% of towns.
- Air pollution87/10011.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Fly-tipping77/10017.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Walsall council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene64/1004.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 47 food businesses with a rating
- Rain60/100133 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband38/1007.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 5.8% across the Walsall council area
- Serious road collisions16/1001.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills10/1008.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Deliberate fires0/1001.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson0/1002.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour0/1001.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Royal Sutton Coldfield | 36 |
| 23 | Aldridge | 36 |
| 24 | Coseley | 35 |
| 25 | Solihull | 30 |
| 26 | Sedgley | 24 |
| 27 | Kingswinford | 19 |
| 28 | Streetly | 16 |
| 29 | Knowle and Dorridge | 15 |
| 30 | Halesowen | 11 |
Streetly by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 28.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 63% 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 Better: 1.8 per 10,000 people, 47% lower than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 4 hairdressers on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public swimming pool open Worse: 0.6 per 10,000 people, 14% lower than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.34am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 20% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 56.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 3.7x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,495 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Walsall council
Have a crap-off
Streetly 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.