Burley in Wharfedale

Giant puddings. Small village mentality.

Twinned with a duck race in the rain

40/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 40. Higher scores are crapper.

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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27

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Park somewhere else, mate.

Commuters on every street, rammed trains, and somebody keeps dumping rubbish.

Burley's a pretty Wharfedale village with stepping stones, a duck race and a tree they used to cook giant puddings under. Giant puddings. Under a tree. Now it's commuters. The station car park's full, so they park outside your house and cram on to a packed train.

Nobody does anything wrong here. Crime's well under half the typical town's and the anti-social behaviour barely registers. And still somebody keeps fly-tipping, so the fly-tippers must be driving in. It rains on 146 days a year. Bit rich for somewhere this nice.

The editor, beaten to the last space

What the score is made of

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

Burley in Wharfedale's 93 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 93% of towns.

Fly-tipping93/10032.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Bradford council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Sewage spills71/100637 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Rain71/100146 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Food hygiene56/1003.7% rated 0 to 2, of the 27 food businesses with a rating
Serious road collisions48/1002.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Broadband40/1007.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.5% across the Bradford council area
Air pollution24/1006.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
Deliberate fires11/1001.9 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
Criminal damage and arson5/1003.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Anti-social behaviour2/1003.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026

**Your patch: West Yorkshire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
30	Honley	433rd	56
31	Otley	448th	55
32	Ilkley	514th	48
33	Guiseley	516th	48
34	Kippax	555th	44
35	Yeadon	563rd	43
36	Garforth	571st	42
–	Burley in Wharfedale	–	40
In danger of becoming nice from here down.37	Wetherby	822nd	16

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Burley in Wharfedale 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

Bradford council

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Burley in Wharfedale against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.

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Burley in WharfedaleCrap Score 40

MenstonCrap Score 41

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