Crap Towns / Mid Glamorgan / Treharris
Treharris
51/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 51. Higher scores are crapper.
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Bus isn't coming.
The pit is a park now. The shops are empty and the bus is late.
Treharris had Deep Navigation, a big pit, and the land is a nice park now. The town centre is empty shops and the off-road bikes go round the Square all night.
The last bus is at 7.19pm and on a Sunday there isn't one. Gigabit's on offer to 38.9% of premises. Fly-tipping in the lanes and sewage in the Taf Bargoed. The pubs are alright, and there are twice the typical town's per head, so that's where everyone's waiting for the bus.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Treharris's 99 for broadband means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Broadband99/10061.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 20.9% across the Merthyr Tydfil council area
- Sewage spills87/1001,250 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain85/100162 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping85/10021.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Merthyr Tydfil council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene53/1003.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 33 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Criminal damage and arson38/1006.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution19/1006.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Anti-social behaviour13/1008.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions6/1000.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Aberdare | 68 |
| 5 | Pontypridd | 57 |
| 6 | Maesteg | 53 |
| 7 | Tonypandy | 52 |
| – | Treharris | 51 |
| 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.
Treharris by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 46.7 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 39% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 18 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 35.7 per 10,000 people, 10.5x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 7.19pm last bus out on a Wednesday, and none on a Sunday 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%
- 26.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 1.7x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,462 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Merthyr Tydfil council
Have a crap-off
Treharris 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.