Crap Towns / Dorset / Weston
Weston
40/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 40. Higher scores are crapper.
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Weston. Not the one with the pier.
A village on Portland made of quarries, vape shops and pubs.
Weston is a village on Portland, built out of the stone they dug from under it. There are old strip fields, a ruined windmill and some Roman bits by the road. Then there are the vape shops, over six times the typical town's per head, and the pubs.
The sunshine adds up to 1,911 hours a year, and the anti-social behaviour's still worse than most places its size, with somebody setting fire to stuff outdoors on top. It's windy. Bring a coat.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Weston's 91 for anti-social behaviour means it's crapper than 91% of towns.
- Anti-social behaviour91/10028.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband77/1008.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 23.3% across the Dorset council area
- Deliberate fires70/10010.1 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson70/1008.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions43/1002.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Rain35/100122 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene32/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 26 food businesses with a rating
- Sewage spills26/10071.9 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping8/1004.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Dorset council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution7/1003.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bournemouth | 62 |
| 2 | Poole | 49 |
| 3 | Bridport | 49 |
| – | Weston | 40 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.4 | Weymouth | 37 |
| 5 | Dorchester | 33 |
| 6 | Christchurch | 22 |
| 7 | West Moors | 20 |
| 8 | Sherborne | 19 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Weston by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 55.4 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 27% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 9 reports of broken street lights on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 17.3 per 10,000 people, 24.7x the typical town's 0.7
- Excellent Church Ope Cove's bathing water rating, 2025
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 2 hairdressers, 1 charity shop, 1 vape shop, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 4 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 7.7 per 10,000 people, 4.8x 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
- 12.08am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as 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%
- 5.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 66% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,911 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 25% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Dorset council
Have a crap-off
Weston 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.