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Blaby and Whetstone

Racetrack at night. Car park at rush hour.
Twinned with a boy racer on the bypass

45/100Crap Score

542nd crappest of 984 towns, and 4th in Leicestershire. Higher scores are crapper.

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Blaby. Mind the boy racers.

Blaby's bypass is a racetrack at night and a car park at rush hour. Lovely.

Whetstone helped build the jet engine, and the lads on Blaby bypass have been trying to break the sound barrier ever since. It's Fast and Furious after dark while everyone else lies awake. Come the morning, the rush hour through Whetstone goes at walking pace, so it evens out.

Blaby brought its old tomato back from the dead, which is more than anyone's managed for the swimming pool, shut since 2016. The water company lets sewage out nearby for more than three times as long as in the typical town, and 4 of the 66 food places with a rating score 0 to 2. Fast cars, slow everything else.

What the score is made of

Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.

Blaby and Whetstone's 80 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 80% of towns.

  • Sewage spills80/100901 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
  • Food hygiene79/1006.1% rated 0 to 2, of the 66 food businesses with a rating
  • Air pollution75/1009.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
  • Broadband66/10011.8% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 8.3% across the Blaby council area
  • Serious road collisions53/1002.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
  • Deliberate fires34/1004.6 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
  • Anti-social behaviour28/10011.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Criminal damage and arson25/1005.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Fly-tipping22/1006.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Blaby council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
  • Rain22/100118 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Your patch: LeicestershireTowns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
PosTownNationalScore
1Leicester212th79
2Coalville417th58
3Loughborough532nd46
4Blaby and Whetstone542nd45
In danger of becoming nice from here down.5Melton Mowbray655th33
6Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe674th32
7Enderby and Narborough695th29
8Whitwick723rd27
9Shepshed858th13

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Blaby and Whetstone by numbers

Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.

Crime, muck and dodgy water

What's left on the high street

Getting about, getting online, getting rained on

Blaby council

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Blaby and WhetstoneCrap Score 45
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CountesthorpeCrap Score 7

Ten ingredients. One verdict. Who's crapper? The higher Crap Score takes it.