Crap Towns / Nottinghamshire / Bingham
Bingham
16/100Crap Score
823rd crappest of 984 towns, and 20th in Nottinghamshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Bingham. Nothing wrong with it. Gutted.
Bingham's clean, quiet and pleased with itself. Slow broadband is all we've got.
Bingham's about as far from crap as it gets, and it's insufferable about it. Butter Cross, weekly market, hardly any crime, and a lot of Nottingham commuters looking smug about living in a market town. Not one storm overflow nearby spilled from 2023 to 2025. Even the shit's well behaved.
So here's what we've got. Nearly a fifth of the place can't get gigabit broadband, so the commuters working from home spend the morning watching a wheel spin. Rushcliffe charges £2,643 for a Band D home for the privilege. And everyone tries to park in the Market Place at once. Honestly, we looked for more. There isn't any.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bingham's 90 for broadband means it's crapper than 90% of towns.
- Broadband90/10019.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 19.1% across the Rushcliffe council area
- Food hygiene62/1004.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 50 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires58/1006.6 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution41/1007.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions39/1002.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Fly-tipping32/1008.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rushcliffe council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain18/100116 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour17/1009.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson16/1004.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | Forest Town | 55 |
| 13 | Mansfield Woodhouse | 55 |
| 14 | Balderton | 54 |
| 15 | New Ollerton and Ollerton | 54 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.16 | Beeston | 35 |
| 17 | West Bridgford | 33 |
| 18 | Arnold | 25 |
| 19 | Carlton | 25 |
| 20 | Bingham | 16 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Bingham by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 46.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of litter and bins on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 3.0 per 10,000 people, 3.3x the typical town's 0.9
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 9 hairdressers, 3 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.0 per 10,000 people, 38% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 2 public swimming pools open; 2 closed for good since 2010 Better: 2.0 per 10,000 people, 2.9x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.12am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.8% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 1.6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 5.5% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 65% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,561 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Rushcliffe council
- £2,643 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £251 more than the English average
- 19% of Nottinghamshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 19% higher than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Bingham 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.