Crap Towns / Dorset / Weymouth
Weymouth
37/100Crap Score
Known as Weymuff.
624th crappest of 984 towns, and 4th in Dorset. Higher scores are crapper.
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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27
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Sat at the lights.
Lovely beach, Georgian seafront, and a stag do in fancy dress shouting under your window.
Weymouth's got a cracking beach, a Georgian seafront and a proper harbour. It's also got stag and hen dos in fancy dress, and anti-social behaviour at twice the typical town's rate.
They ripped out the roundabouts for the Olympics and put in traffic lights, and everyone's been sat at them since, with more serious crashes than most for their trouble. It gets 1,868 hours of sunshine a year, and Dorset wants £2,765 for a Band D home to enjoy it. Weybiza. It's Dorset, mate.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Weymouth's 92 for anti-social behaviour means it's crapper than 92% of towns.
- Anti-social behaviour92/10028.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband90/10017.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 23.3% across the Dorset council area
- Serious road collisions85/1003.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson53/1007.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain28/100120 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills21/10046.7 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Deliberate fires17/1003.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution11/1005.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Fly-tipping8/1004.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Dorset council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene0/1000.2% rated 0 to 2, of the 440 food businesses with a rating
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bournemouth | 62 |
| 2 | Poole | 49 |
| 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 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Weymouth by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 71.9 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 6% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 15 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 2.7 per 10,000 people, 21% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2021
- 3 of 5 bathing waters here or within 2 km rated Excellent in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 52 pubs, 29 hairdressers, 18 charity shops, 5 bookmakers, 5 vape shops, 6 banks, 3 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1.5% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (1 of 66) Better: 63% lower than the typical town's 4.0%
- 2 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Worse: 3.6 per 100,000 people, 6% higher than the typical town's 3.4
- 14 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.5 per 10,000 people, 1.6x the typical town's 1.6
- 4 public swimming pools open; 2 closed for good since 2010 About the same: 0.7 per 10,000 people, about the same as the typical English town's 0.7
- 1 place on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.32am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later 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%
- 19.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 23% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,868 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 22% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Dorset council
Have a crap-off
Weymouth 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.