Crap Towns / Derbyshire / Breaston and Draycott
Breaston and Draycott
17/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 17. Higher scores are crapper.
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It floods. Then it floods again.
Old lace villages near Long Eaton. Flooding again, and still no station.
Breaston and Draycott used to make lace. Now they mostly make complaints about the drains. It floods, it gets mopped up, it floods again. Crime's low, so at least nobody's nicking your wellies. They shut the station years ago, so you can't even get the train out.
Sewage goes in the water nearby for three times the typical town's hours, and more than four in ten people live over 400 metres from a park or a swing. There are 10 hairdressers, mind. Wet feet, lovely hair.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Breaston and Draycott's 79 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 79% of towns.
- Sewage spills79/100846 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Air pollution65/1009.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires57/1006.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Serious road collisions40/1002.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Rain36/100123 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour31/10012.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene27/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 37 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband25/1005.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.9% across the Erewash council area
- Criminal damage and arson11/1004.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping1/1002.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Erewash council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | Buxton | 42 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.13 | Hadfield | 36 |
| 14 | Long Eaton | 33 |
| 15 | Brimington | 22 |
| – | Breaston and Draycott | 17 |
| 16 | Glossop | 16 |
| 17 | Swadlincote | 14 |
| 18 | Belper | 8 |
| 19 | Dronfield | 4 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Breaston and Draycott by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 46.1 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 12 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 16.2 per 10,000 people, 14.7x the typical town's 1.1
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2016
What's left on the high street
- 7 pubs, 10 hairdressers, 3 charity shops, 1 vape shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.7 per 10,000 people, 1.7x 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
- 12.36am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 41.4% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.7x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,504 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Erewash council
- £2,361 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £31 less than the English average
- 15% of Derbyshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 6% lower than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Breaston and Draycott 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.