Crap Towns / Mid Glamorgan / Treherbert
Treherbert
44/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 44. Higher scores are crapper.
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Bank's gone. Big shop's in Treorchy.
Top of the Rhondda, end of the railway, and the bank and the big shop are somewhere else.
Treherbert is the top of the Rhondda, where the railway from Cardiff runs out. Pen Pych has waterfalls and cracking views. Everything else is a trip. The banks have gone, the supermarket is out of the valley and the bus to Treorchy costs a fortune.
You get rain on 191 days a year, and the total comes to over three and a half times the typical town's. 8.3% of food places get a hygiene rating of 0 to 2, three and a half times the typical town's share. Lovely mountains, mind, when you can see them.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Treherbert's 99 for rain means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Rain99/100191 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene79/1008.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 36 food businesses with a rating
- Sewage spills78/100821 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping71/10015.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rhondda Cynon Taf council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Broadband66/1007.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 18.6% across the Rhondda Cynon Taf council area
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Criminal damage and arson44/1006.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour11/1008.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution5/1004.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.7 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions1/1000.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Maesteg | 53 |
| 7 | Tonypandy | 52 |
| 8 | Mountain Ash | 49 |
| 9 | Tonyrefail | 44 |
| – | Treherbert | 44 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.10 | Church Village | 35 |
| 11 | Bridgend | 32 |
| 12 | Pyle | 25 |
| 13 | Sarn | 10 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Treherbert by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 72.7 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
- 9 reports of litter and bins on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 16.6 per 10,000 people, 18.4x the typical town's 0.9
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.24pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 60% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 38.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.5x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,398 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 9% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Rhondda Cynon Taf council
Have a crap-off
Treherbert 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.