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Crawcrook and Greenside
29/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 29. Higher scores are crapper.
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Crawcrook. Nice. Boring. Next.
Old pit terraces, quiet streets, and a petition for a crossing that keeps not happening.
Crawcrook and Greenside are old pit villages that turned out all right, which is annoying. Crime's just over half the typical town's and the roads are safe, apart from Lead Road, where people speed and the village has been begging for a crossing for years. The big row is somebody wanting a quarry nearby.
There's 9 hairdressers and 3 pubs, so everyone's well turned out and nobody's pissed. Gateshead still wants £2,716 for a Band D, and somebody keeps dumping rubbish in the lanes. That's about all we've got.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Crawcrook and Greenside's 89 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 89% of towns.
- Fly-tipping89/10027.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Gateshead council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires75/10011.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Sewage spills57/100363 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain50/100128 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband44/1005.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 10.6% across the Gateshead council area
- Criminal damage and arson28/1005.5 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
- Anti-social behaviour15/1009.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution15/1005.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions11/1001.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Houghton-le-Spring | 73 |
| 11 | Birtley | 69 |
| 12 | Longbenton | 61 |
| 13 | Washington | 57 |
| 14 | Whickham | 53 |
| 15 | Killingworth | 50 |
| 16 | Shiney Row and Penshaw | 47 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.– | Crawcrook and Greenside | 29 |
| 17 | Whitley Bay | 26 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Crawcrook and Greenside by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 42.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 44% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2019
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs, 9 hairdressers 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
- midnight last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as 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%
- 3.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 79% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,499 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Gateshead council
Have a crap-off
Crawcrook and Greenside 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.