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Ackworth Moor Top
47/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 47. Higher scores are crapper.
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agree it's crap have defended it
There was a moor. Guess what happened.
Every field's getting houses on it, and every house comes with another car.
Ackworth Moor Top built houses in its old quarries, and now it's eyeing up the green belt and Brackenhill Common as well. The countryside's the whole selling point. Every new estate eats a bit more of it.
Nobody built anything for the sewage. Storm overflows nearby spill about five times as long as the typical town's, and twice in 2025 crude sewage went in the water. It's quiet, to be fair. Hardly anyone kicks off. They're all too busy objecting to the next planning application. Have a look at the fields before they're a cul-de-sac.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Ackworth Moor Top's 88 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 88% of towns.
- Sewage spills88/1001,384 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping75/10016.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Wakefield council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires57/1006.4 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Food hygiene54/1003.2% rated 0 to 2, of the 31 food businesses with a rating
- Serious road collisions54/1002.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Air pollution52/1007.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Criminal damage and arson36/1006.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain30/100121 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour7/1005.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband6/1001.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.7% across the Wakefield council area
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | Honley | 56 |
| 31 | Otley | 55 |
| 32 | Ilkley | 48 |
| 33 | Guiseley | 48 |
| – | Ackworth Moor Top | 47 |
| 34 | Kippax | 44 |
| 35 | Yeadon | 43 |
| 36 | Garforth | 42 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.37 | Wetherby | 16 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Ackworth Moor Top by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 56.6 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 26% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 4.8 per 10,000 people, 41% higher than the typical town's 3.4
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.01pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- Under 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Far lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 20.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 34% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,453 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 5% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Wakefield council
- £2,297 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £95 less than the English average
- 19% of Wakefield council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 19% higher than England's 16%
- 5 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Ackworth Moor Top 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.