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Undy and Magor
27/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 27. Higher scores are crapper.
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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
Station? Keep asking.
Magor has a lovely square. It's been asking for a railway station for years.
Undy and Magor is a pair of villages by the Severn with a nice square, a marsh full of birds and a sea wall to walk on. Nobody causes any trouble. The locals have been asking for a railway station for so long the campaign could retire. The traffic speeds through and people park everywhere.
The storm overflows go off for 18 times the typical town's hours, and there's 1 pub on the map between the two villages. Still no station.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Undy and Magor's 99 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Sewage spills99/1004,973 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Broadband82/10011.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 21.0% across the Monmouthshire council area
- Rain66/100138 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Air pollution39/1008.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene38/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 16 food businesses with a rating
- Serious road collisions24/1001.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Fly-tipping23/1006.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Monmouthshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Criminal damage and arson17/1004.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour6/1007.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Blackwood | 92 |
| 7 | Caerphilly | 88 |
| 8 | Pontypool | 86 |
| 9 | Ystrad Mynach | 85 |
| 10 | Cwmbrân | 75 |
| 11 | Chepstow | 59 |
| 12 | Abergavenny | 57 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.13 | Monmouth | 31 |
| – | Undy and Magor | 27 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Undy and Magor by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 37.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 51% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 7 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 12.2 per 10,000 people, 3.6x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 10.12pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.7% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 40% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 9.6% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 38% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,684 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 10% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Monmouthshire council
Have a crap-off
Undy and Magor 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.