Budgens food hygiene ratings
There are 239 Budgens sites in the United Kingdom with a published food hygiene rating. Each is inspected by its own local council, the chain does not rate itself, and a rating earned in one town says nothing about the branch in the next. 3 sites are in Scotland, which uses a pass-or-improve scheme rather than a score out of five, and so are not counted in the figures below.
How Budgens scores
66% of rated Budgens branches hold the top score of 5, and 83% hold a 4 or better. The chain averages 4.35 out of 5, about in line with the roughly 70% of all UK food businesses that hold a 5.
| 5 out of 5 | 146 | 66% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 out of 5 | 37 | 17% | |
| 3 out of 5 | 24 | 11% | |
| 2 out of 5 | 2 | 1% | |
| 1 out of 5 | 11 | 5% | |
| 0 out of 5 | 2 | 1% |
A further 17 branches are awaiting inspection, exempt, or in Scotland, none of which sit on the 0–5 scale.
Lowest-rated Budgens branches
15 branches hold a rating of 2 or below, including 2 rated 0. That is 7% of Budgens's rated sites. A low rating is not a closure order, the business is required to fix what the inspector found.
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| Branch | Council | Rating | Inspected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budgens CM20 1FS | Harlow | 0 - Urgent improvement necessary | 13 March 2026 |
| Budgens Leven HU17 5JZ | East Riding of Yorkshire | 0 - Urgent improvement necessary | 21 February 2025 |
| Budgens WD18 7QR | Watford | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 20 April 2026 |
| Budgens Cherry Burton HU17 7RF | East Riding of Yorkshire | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 27 February 2026 |
| Budgens GU22 9NG | Woking | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 26 November 2025 |
| Budgens B5 6EJ | Birmingham | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 24 September 2025 |
| Budgens SS6 7QA | Rochford | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 16 September 2025 |
| Budgens E17 4EZ | Waltham Forest | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 20 August 2025 |
| Budgens HU15 2EZ | East Riding of Yorkshire | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 4 July 2025 |
| Budgens CO10 9JG | Babergh | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 4 June 2025 |
| Budgens / Old Barn Stores RG25 2BQ | Basingstoke and Deane | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 14 January 2025 |
| Budgens Canning Town E16 1HU | Newham | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 1 November 2024 |
| Budgens Skirlaugh HU11 5EU | East Riding of Yorkshire | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 2 August 2024 |
| Budgens CB6 2SX | East Cambridgeshire | 2 - Some improvement necessary | 22 July 2025 |
| Budgens YO12 4BE | North Yorkshire | 2 - Some improvement necessary | 23 April 2025 |
Questions about Budgens
What is Budgens's food hygiene rating?
Budgens does not have a single rating. Every one of its 239 UK sites is inspected and rated separately by its own local council. 66% of them hold the top score of 5, and the chain averages 4.35 out of 5.
Is Budgens clean?
By the only measure a regulator publishes, 66% of Budgens branches were found to have very good hygiene standards at their last inspection. But a rating describes a branch, not a brand, and 15 branches score 2 or below.
Which Budgens has the worst hygiene rating?
The lowest-rated branches are listed on this page, worst first. 15 hold a rating of 2 or below out of 222 rated sites.
Who inspects Budgens?
Not Budgens. Environmental health officers at each site's local council carry out the inspection, unannounced, and set the rating. The Food Standards Agency publishes the result. A chain cannot rate itself, and cannot change a rating.
Where the branches are
The councils inspecting the most Budgens branches.
Somerset, East Riding of Yorkshire, Brighton and Hove, Lambeth, Wiltshire, Bromley, Hull City, Buckinghamshire
Other chains
Data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland under the Open Government Licence. Branches are identified from the business names councils publish; one trading under an unusual name may not be counted here. This site is not affiliated with Budgens.