Crap Towns / Clwyd / Wrexham
Wrexham
66/100Crap Score
331st crappest of 984 towns, and 5th in Clwyd. 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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Hollywood bought the football.
The football club's on the telly and the city centre's full of empty shops.
Hollywood bought the football club, the telly made it famous, and now everyone wants a ticket. Good luck with that. Off the Racecourse it's a city centre of empty units, vape shops and Greggs, and parking fines at the shopping centre that locals hate.
Shoplifting sits at over three times the typical town's rate, anti-social behaviour at twice and criminal damage at over twice. Chester fans call it Wrectum. Wrexham fans call Chester something worse.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Wrexham's 97 for criminal damage and arson means it's crapper than 97% of towns.
- Criminal damage and arson97/10015.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour92/10028.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions74/1003.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Broadband71/10010.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 13.9% across the Wrexham council area
- Rain66/100139 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Fly-tipping37/1008.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Wrexham council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Sewage spills35/100129 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Air pollution33/1007.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene10/1001.1% rated 0 to 2, of the 350 food businesses with a rating
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhyl | 94 |
| 2 | Llandudno | 87 |
| 3 | Colwyn Bay | 78 |
| 4 | Prestatyn | 71 |
| 5 | Wrexham | 66 |
| 6 | Flint | 63 |
| 7 | Rhosllannerchrugog | 54 |
| 8 | Connah's Quay | 52 |
| 9 | Hawarden | 43 |
Wrexham by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 137 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 1.8x the typical town's 76.2
- 10 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 2.2 per 10,000 people, 35% lower than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 33 pubs, 33 hairdressers, 12 charity shops, 4 bookmakers, 5 vape shops, 9 banks, 4 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 2.1% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (1 of 48) Better: 48% lower than the typical town's 4.0%
- 17 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 3.8 per 10,000 people, 2.4x the typical town's 1.6
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.13am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 12.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 21% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,463 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Wrexham council
Have a crap-off
Wrexham 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.