Crap Towns / Leicestershire / Anstey
Anstey
7/100Crap Score
Locals call it Ansteh.
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 7. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
Couldn't find anything. Bastards.
Still calling itself a village while Leicester gets closer. Very nice. Very touchy about it.
Anstey's nice and we hate that. Bradgate Park up the road, nobody nicks anything, nobody dumps anything, and nearly everyone lives a couple of minutes from a park or a swing. Supposedly they killed the last wolf in England round here. It's been quiet ever since.
So you end up moaning about The Nook, where everything just stops, and the storm overflows, which spill about a quarter more than the typical town's. That's as rough as Ansteh gets. And all the while it bangs on about being a village as Leicester eats it, one new estate at a time.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Anstey's 76 for air pollution means it's crapper than 76% of towns.
- Air pollution76/1009.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Sewage spills55/100344 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Deliberate fires45/1005.6 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Rain39/100124 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Criminal damage and arson39/1006.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene27/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 34 food businesses with a rating
- Anti-social behaviour16/1009.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband16/1002.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.3% across the Charnwood council area
- Fly-tipping14/1005.5 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Charnwood council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions5/1000.7 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Shepshed | 13 |
| 10 | Hinckley | 11 |
| 11 | Mountsorrel | 10 |
| 12 | Earl Shilton | 9 |
| – | Anstey | 7 |
| 13 | Ashby-de-la-Zouch | 7 |
| 14 | Lutterworth | 2 |
| 15 | Syston | 1 |
| 16 | Market Harborough | 1 |
Anstey by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 53.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 30% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 2.8 per 10,000 people, 2.5x the typical town's 1.1
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 4 hairdressers, 1 charity shop, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.4 per 10,000 people, 13% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 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
- 11.40pm 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%
- 3.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 76% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,497 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Charnwood council
- £2,406 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £14 more than the English average
- 11% of Leicestershire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 31% lower than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Anstey 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.