Crap Towns / East Riding of Yorkshire / Beverley
Beverley
7/100Crap Score
Known as Bev. Locals are Beverlonians.
913th crappest of 984 towns, and 9th in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Miles from Hull. Honest.
Beverlonians tell people they live near York. They live near Hull. Everyone knows.
Beverley's all right and doesn't half go on about it. Minster, racecourse, cows wandering about the Westwood. Ask anyone from Bev where they live and they'll say near York, because they'd rather eat glass than say Hull. It's Hull, mate. You can practically see it.
It's insufferable on paper as well. The council recycles 61% of everything, hardly anyone fly-tips, and nearly every house can get gigabit broadband, so the Beverlonians can tell the whole internet they live near York. There's 29 pubs, and the Flemingate roadworks to moan about in every one of them.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Beverley's 75 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 75% of towns.
- Sewage spills75/100725 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain37/100123 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions36/1002.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Air pollution35/1006.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires29/1004.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson28/1005.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour23/1007.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene20/1001.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 226 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband4/1000.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 5.5% across the East Riding of Yorkshire council area
- Fly-tipping3/1003.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, East Riding of Yorkshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kingston upon Hull | 89 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.2 | Goole | 26 |
| 3 | Bridlington | 20 |
| 4 | Cottingham | 12 |
| 5 | Hessle | 12 |
| 6 | Pocklington | 11 |
| 7 | Willerby and Anlaby | 9 |
| 8 | Driffield | 9 |
| 9 | Beverley | 7 |
| 10 | Brough | 3 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Beverley by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 71.6 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 6% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 problem reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 0.3 per 10,000 people, 99% lower than the typical town's 20.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2024
What's left on the high street
- 29 pubs, 21 hairdressers, 11 charity shops, 3 bookmakers, 6 banks, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 3.6% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (1 of 28) Better: 10% lower than the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Better: 3.2 per 100,000 people, 6% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 7 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.3 per 10,000 people, 44% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- 2 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
- 11.59pm last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as 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%
- 9.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 41% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,576 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
East Riding of Yorkshire council
- £2,466 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £74 more than the English average
- 15% of East Riding of Yorkshire council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 6% lower than England's 16%
- 12 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Beverley 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.