Crap Towns / Mid Glamorgan / Tonypandy
Tonypandy
52/100Crap Score
469th crappest of 984 towns, and 7th in Mid Glamorgan. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Tonypandy. Van stuck again.
Dunraven Street is a van wide, and there's always a van. And a car in the loading bay.
Pandy's in the history books. Now it's known for Dunraven Street, which is empty shops and vape shops, over seven times the typical town's vape shops per head, and always blocked by a van because some idiot's parked in the loading bay.
It chucks it down on 185 days a year and the dog shit still doesn't wash away. The kitchens fail inspections and the water company lets sewage out for nearly nine times as long as in the typical town. The Friday market's all right. That's the good news.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Tonypandy's 99 for rain means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Rain99/100185 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills96/1002,447 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Food hygiene75/1004.6% rated 0 to 2, of the 108 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping71/10015.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rhondda Cynon Taf council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Broadband61/1005.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 18.6% across the Rhondda Cynon Taf council area
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Criminal damage and arson35/1006.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution20/1006.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions14/1001.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour14/1008.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Merthyr Tydfil | 69 |
| 4 | Aberdare | 68 |
| 5 | Pontypridd | 57 |
| 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 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Tonypandy by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 73.2 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
- 5 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 2.9 per 10,000 people, 2.6x the typical town's 1.1
What's left on the high street
- 9 pubs, 16 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 4 vape shops, 1 bank, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 8.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (2 of 25) Worse: 2x the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 5.8 per 100,000 people, 1.7x the typical town's 3.4
- 4 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.3 per 10,000 people, 44% higher than the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.58pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 23.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 49% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,470 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
Tonypandy 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.