Crap Towns / East Riding of Yorkshire / Brough
Brough
3/100Crap Score
958th crappest of 984 towns, and 10th in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Very nice. Shame about the sewage.
They built fighter jets here. Finding a parking space is harder.
Brough built Harriers and Hawks, and the story goes they picked the spot for the pubs. These days it's a nice quiet commuter town on the Humber. The station car park's full before breakfast, so the commuters park outside your house instead.
Crime's less than half the typical town's, hardly anybody fly-tips and every house can get superfast broadband. Smug as you like. So the big story is the sewage. The storm overflows nearby go off for nearly eight times the typical town's hours, straight into the Humber. Not really news for the Humber. The swimming pool shut for good as well.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Brough's 94 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 94% of towns.
- Sewage spills94/1002,132 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Air pollution49/1007.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Rain45/100125 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene40/1001.7% rated 0 to 2, of the 58 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires22/1003.5 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour6/1004.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband4/1000.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 5.5% across the East Riding of Yorkshire council area
- Serious road collisions3/1000.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson3/1003.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- 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.
Brough by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 36.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 52% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 4 problems reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 3.0 per 10,000 people, 85% lower than the typical town's 20.4
- 4 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2019
What's left on the high street
- 7 pubs, 4 hairdressers, 1 charity shop, 1 bookmaker, 2 banks on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.8 per 10,000 people, 50% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- None public swimming pools open; 1 closed for good since 2010 Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 10.10pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Against the typical town's 0.5%
- 45.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 3x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,558 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
Brough 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.