Crap Towns / Somerset / Yeovil
Yeovil
34/100Crap Score
People from here are Glovers.
651st crappest of 984 towns, and 8th in Somerset. 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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agree it's crap have defended it
Yeovil. Locals say Sherborne's nice.
Helicopters overhead, a Tesco on the old football pitch and a town centre that's emptying out.
Yeovil made gloves, makes helicopters, and built a Tesco on the old football pitch, the famous sloping one. The town centre is emptying out, there's not much of a night out, and without a car you're stuck. A library's shut. Rush hour backs up to Cartgate.
Shoplifting is running at over twice the typical town's rate, which takes some doing with the shops shutting. The best thing about Yeovil, locals joke, is how close it is to Sherborne.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Yeovil's 64 for anti-social behaviour means it's crapper than 64% of towns.
- Anti-social behaviour64/10017.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband62/1003.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 24.3% across the Somerset council area
- Sewage spills62/100452 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson60/1007.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain57/100131 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions46/1002.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires42/1005.5 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution23/1006.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Fly-tipping19/1006.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Somerset council area, 2023-24 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene0/1000.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 309 food businesses with a rating
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Keynsham | 51 |
| 5 | Weston-super-Mare | 51 |
| 6 | Midsomer Norton | 41 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.7 | Chard | 38 |
| 8 | Yeovil | 34 |
| 9 | Minehead | 33 |
| 10 | Frome | 31 |
| 11 | Wellington | 27 |
| 12 | Street | 17 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Yeovil by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 102 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 34% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 35 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 7.0 per 10,000 people, 2.1x the typical town's 3.4
- 5 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2024
What's left on the high street
- 13 pubs, 6 hairdressers, 10 charity shops, 4 bookmakers, 7 banks, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 41) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Better: 2.0 per 100,000 people, 41% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 1 library shut for good since 2010: Sunningdale (2019)
- 14 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.8 per 10,000 people, 1.8x the typical town's 1.6
- 3 public swimming pools open Worse: 0.6 per 10,000 people, 14% lower than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.43pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 80% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 8.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 43% 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
Somerset council
Have a crap-off
Yeovil 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.