Crap Towns / Dorset / West Moors
West Moors
20/100Crap Score
785th crappest of 984 towns, and 7th in Dorset. Higher scores are crapper.
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Bungalow, bungalow, lorry, bungalow
The station's gone. Station Road's still there, full of lorries.
West Moors is a village of bungalows on the Dorset heath with a military fuel depot and a station that closed long ago. Station Road is still full of traffic, the lorries squeeze through and the junctions jam, so everyone drives. There's no park on the map and no public pool, there's no bus after 7.57pm and Dorset still charges £2,765 for a Band D home. Nice heathland, though.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
West Moors's 94 for broadband means it's crapper than 94% of towns.
- Broadband94/10022.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 23.3% across the Dorset council area
- Serious road collisions57/1002.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour47/10014.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain44/100125 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills35/100129 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Food hygiene26/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 38 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution25/1006.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Criminal damage and arson24/1005.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires14/1002.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Fly-tipping8/1004.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Dorset council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Bridport | 49 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.4 | Weymouth | 37 |
| 5 | Dorchester | 33 |
| 6 | Christchurch | 22 |
| 7 | West Moors | 20 |
| 8 | Sherborne | 19 |
| 9 | Wimborne Minster | 19 |
| 10 | Corfe Mullen | 14 |
| 11 | Ferndown | 10 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
West Moors by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 35.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 53% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 2.9 per 10,000 people, 15% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2019
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.0 per 10,000 people, 38% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 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
- 7.57pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.5% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 0.5%
- 44.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 2.9x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,739 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 14% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Dorset council
Have a crap-off
West Moors 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.