Crap Towns / Wiltshire / Wroughton
Wroughton
30/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 30. Higher scores are crapper.
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Next to Swindon. Unlucky.
A village with a pond, a big museum shed and Swindon creeping up the road.
Wroughton's a village with a pond, downs to walk on and an old airfield where the Science Museum dumps the stuff too big for London. It's quiet and nobody smashes anything. Call it part of Swindon and you'll get told off. Swindon Road's a racetrack and there are more houses on the way.
The broadband's the real joke. Superfast doesn't reach 9.5% of premises, 19 times the typical town's share, so the village that won't be Swindon can't even get Swindon's internet.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Wroughton's 72 for food hygiene means it's crapper than 72% of towns.
- Food hygiene72/1006.9% rated 0 to 2, of the 29 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping64/10013.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Swindon council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires62/1007.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Broadband50/10010.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.1% across the Swindon council area
- Rain46/100126 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills43/100207 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Serious road collisions31/1001.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Air pollution26/1006.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Criminal damage and arson11/1004.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour10/1008.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Devizes | 49 |
| 3 | Melksham | 48 |
| 4 | Swindon | 43 |
| 5 | Trowbridge | 41 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.– | Wroughton | 30 |
| 6 | Warminster | 30 |
| 7 | Chippenham | 29 |
| 8 | Calne | 24 |
| 9 | Westbury | 24 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Wroughton by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 35.1 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 54% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 5 problems reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 6.9 per 10,000 people, 66% lower than the typical town's 20.4
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 4 hairdressers, 1 charity shop, 1 bookmaker on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.4 per 10,000 people, 13% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open; 1 closed for good since 2010 Better: 1.4 per 10,000 people, 2x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- midnight last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 9.5% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 19x the typical town's 0.5%
- 7.6% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 51% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,602 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Swindon council
Have a crap-off
Wroughton 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.