Crap Towns / Suffolk / Woodbridge
Woodbridge
4/100Crap Score
Known as Wooders.
946th crappest of 984 towns, and 8th in Suffolk. 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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Woodbridge. Smug, and allowed to be.
A tide mill, the Deben, boats, and a lot of people very pleased with where they live.
Woodbridge got voted the happiest place to live, and it's hard to argue, which is annoying. Working tide mill, the River Deben, boats, twice the typical town's pubs per head and hardly any crime.
There are 11 charity shops, nearly eight times the typical town's rate per head, so even the cast-offs are posh. Barclays, HSBC and Lloyds have all gone, at nearly nine times the typical town's rate, and the buses stop at 8.03pm. If that's the worst of it, nobody wants to hear you moan.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Woodbridge's 52 for air pollution means it's crapper than 52% of towns.
- Air pollution52/1007.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene42/1002.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 99 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband42/1003.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.6% across the East Suffolk council area
- Sewage spills40/100177 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson36/1006.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping30/1007.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, East Suffolk council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain15/100116 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions12/1001.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires3/1001.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour2/1004.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lowestoft | 40 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.2 | Sudbury | 30 |
| 3 | Ipswich | 15 |
| 4 | Haverhill | 11 |
| 5 | Newmarket | 9 |
| 6 | Stowmarket | 7 |
| 7 | Felixstowe | 6 |
| 8 | Woodbridge | 4 |
| 9 | Bury St Edmunds | 3 |
| 10 | Kesgrave | 0 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Woodbridge by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 44.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 42% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 9 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 8.9 per 10,000 people, 2.6x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2018
What's left on the high street
- 10 pubs, 13 hairdressers, 11 charity shops, 1 vape shop, 3 banks on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 3 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Worse: 29.6 per 100,000 people, 8.7x the typical town's 3.4
- 3 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 3.0 per 10,000 people, 1.9x the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Better: 1.0 per 10,000 people, 43% higher than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 8.03pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 21.6% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 39% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,702 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 11% higher than the typical town's 1,532
East Suffolk council
- £2,335 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £57 less than the English average
- 22% of Suffolk County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 38% higher than England's 16%
- 1 ombudsman complaint upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Woodbridge 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.