Crap Towns / Staffordshire / Werrington
Werrington
20/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 20. Higher scores are crapper.
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Werrington. Up a hill near Stoke.
A windmill on the hill, heathland round it, and Stoke down below to feel good about.
Werrington sits on a hill above Stoke with a windmill that ended up grinding coal, which is about the most Staffordshire thing a windmill could do. Low crime, nobody fly-tips, heath out on Wetley Moor and Stoke spread out below to feel smug about.
It rains on 158 days a year up here. There's no public park, so over half the village lives more than 400 metres from anywhere to take the kids, and the kids are stuck indoors watching it rain. The last bus on a Wednesday goes at 8.43pm. Nobody's going down to Hanley for a night out anyway.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Werrington's 81 for rain means it's crapper than 81% of towns.
- Rain81/100158 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband70/1004.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 24.4% across the Staffordshire Moorlands council area
- Serious road collisions65/1003.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires58/1006.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution39/1007.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene36/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 19 food businesses with a rating
- Sewage spills25/10068.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour19/10010.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson8/1003.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping5/1003.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Staffordshire Moorlands council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Codsall | 26 |
| 7 | Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay | 25 |
| 8 | Biddulph | 24 |
| 9 | Stafford | 22 |
| – | Werrington | 20 |
| 10 | Wombourne | 17 |
| 11 | Uttoxeter | 16 |
| 12 | Tamworth | 15 |
| 13 | Cheadle | 14 |
Werrington by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 50.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 34% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 problem reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.7 per 10,000 people, 92% lower than the typical town's 20.4
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs, 4 hairdressers, 1 vape shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 8.43pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 2.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 4x the typical town's 0.5%
- 52.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 3.4x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,396 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 9% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Staffordshire Moorlands council
- £2,338 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £54 less than the English average
- 10% of Staffordshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 38% lower than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Werrington 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.