Crap Towns / Somerset / Yatton
Yatton
1/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 1. Higher scores are crapper.
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Irritatingly, quite nice
A lovely old railway path and a High Street full of motorway traffic.
Yatton is annoyingly decent. Hardly any crime, safe roads, a lovely walk along the Strawberry Line where the old fruit trains ran. So it's the traffic. The High Street clogs every time the motorway goes wrong and commuters park in every street near the station. There's no bus at all on a Sunday. The broadband's flawless and the river's clean. That's the lot.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Yatton's 69 for rain means it's crapper than 69% of towns.
- Rain69/100143 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping38/1009.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, North Somerset council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene27/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 35 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution23/1006.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband20/1001.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 10.6% across the North Somerset council area
- Anti-social behaviour15/1009.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions9/1001.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson8/1003.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Deliberate fires1/1000.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Frome | 31 |
| 11 | Wellington | 27 |
| 12 | Street | 17 |
| 13 | Portishead | 16 |
| 14 | Wells | 15 |
| 15 | Burnham-on-Sea | 11 |
| 16 | Clevedon | 3 |
| 17 | Nailsea | 1 |
| – | Yatton | 1 |
Yatton by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 49.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 35% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.3 per 10,000 people, 62% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 3 hairdressers on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.3 per 10,000 people, 19% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Better: 1.3 per 10,000 people, 1.9x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 10.24pm last bus out on a Wednesday, and none on a Sunday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Against the typical town's 0.5%
- 27.9% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 1.8x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,618 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 6% higher than the typical town's 1,532
North Somerset council
- £2,491 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £99 more than the English average
- 4% of North Somerset council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 75% lower than England's 16%
- 7 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Yatton 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.