Crap Towns / Lincolnshire / Brigg
Brigg
20/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 20. Higher scores are crapper.
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Who kicked the bus shelter in?
Nice market town, horse fair, a Buttercross. And a load of little sods smashing it up.
Brigg's a proper old market town with a horse fair and a Buttercross. Pretty. Then some little sod kicks the bus shelter in. Vandalism runs well over the typical town's rate, which is a lot of effort for a bus shelter that barely sees a bus.
The trains only come on Saturdays and the last bus goes at 8.56pm on a Wednesday. There's no public park on the map either. It has got over four times the typical town's public toilets per head, so you can always go while you're waiting. Scunthorpe's down the road, so, could be worse.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Brigg's 88 for criminal damage and arson means it's crapper than 88% of towns.
- Criminal damage and arson88/10011.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution55/1006.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires54/1005.9 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Serious road collisions42/1002.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene34/1001.4% rated 0 to 2, of the 71 food businesses with a rating
- Anti-social behaviour32/1008.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills31/100101 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain23/100118 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband14/1002.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.2% across the North Lincolnshire council area
- Fly-tipping13/1005.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, North Lincolnshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Spalding | 64 |
| 10 | Grantham | 53 |
| 11 | Stamford | 46 |
| 12 | Sleaford | 45 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.13 | Humberston and New Waltham | 32 |
| 14 | Barton-upon-Humber | 32 |
| – | Brigg | 20 |
| 15 | Bourne | 15 |
| 16 | North Hykeham | 13 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Brigg by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 95.4 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 25% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 23 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 40.8 per 10,000 people, 12x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2019
What's left on the high street
- 6 pubs, 3 banks on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 11) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 17.7 per 100,000 people, 5.2x the typical town's 3.4
- 4 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 7.1 per 10,000 people, 4.4x 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
- 8.56pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.4% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 20% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 34.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 2.2x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,551 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
North Lincolnshire council
- £2,348 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £44 less than the English average
- 17% of North Lincolnshire council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 6% higher than England's 16%
- 4 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Brigg 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.