Poundland food hygiene ratings
There are 535 Poundland 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. 40 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 Poundland scores
90% of rated Poundland branches hold the top score of 5, and 98% hold a 4 or better. The chain averages 4.88 out of 5, a strikingly consistent record, well above the roughly 70% of all UK food businesses that manage a 5.
| 5 out of 5 | 431 | 90% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 out of 5 | 40 | 8% | |
| 3 out of 5 | 4 | 1% | |
| 2 out of 5 | 3 | 1% | |
| 1 out of 5 | 0 | 0% | |
| 0 out of 5 | 0 | 0% |
A further 57 branches are awaiting inspection, exempt, or in Scotland, none of which sit on the 0–5 scale.
Lowest-rated Poundland branches
3 branches hold a rating of 2 or below. That is 1% of Poundland's rated sites. A low rating is not a closure order, the business is required to fix what the inspector found.
Questions about Poundland
What is Poundland's food hygiene rating?
Poundland does not have a single rating. Every one of its 535 UK sites is inspected and rated separately by its own local council. 90% of them hold the top score of 5, and the chain averages 4.88 out of 5.
Is Poundland clean?
By the only measure a regulator publishes, 90% of Poundland branches were found to have very good hygiene standards at their last inspection. But a rating describes a branch, not a brand, and 3 branches score 2 or below.
Which Poundland has the worst hygiene rating?
The lowest-rated branches are listed on this page, worst first. 3 hold a rating of 2 or below out of 478 rated sites.
Who inspects Poundland?
Not Poundland. 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 Poundland branches.
Birmingham, Sheffield, Somerset, Sandwell, Medway, Bradford, Wakefield, Greenwich
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 Poundland.