Crigglestone and Durkar

Durkar used to be called Dirtcar. Honest.

Twinned with Dirtcar, its old name

58/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 58. Higher scores are crapper.

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Dirtcar was the honest name.

Old pit villages by the motorway. The stations are gone and the sewage isn't.

Durkar used to be called Dirtcar, and they should've kept it. The storm overflows nearby go off for over eleven times the typical town's hours, and slurry has turned up in the water twice since 2016. Dirtcar. Spot on.

The pits shut, the stations shut, and they put houses on the colliery land and keep trying to stick more on top. Denby Dale Road's jammed from the motorway and the lorries go where they're banned. There's no public park on the map, so all that pit land went on houses and none of it on swings.

The editor, who preferred Dirtcar

What the score is made of

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

Crigglestone and Durkar's 98 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 98% of towns.

Sewage spills98/1003,106 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Fly-tipping75/10016.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Wakefield council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Deliberate fires71/10010.1 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
Air pollution70/1009.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
Anti-social behaviour50/10010.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Rain47/100126 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Food hygiene36/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 19 food businesses with a rating
Serious road collisions33/1001.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Criminal damage and arson24/1005.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Broadband8/1001.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.7% across the Wakefield council area

**Your patch: West Yorkshire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
26	Morley	337th	66
27	East Ardsley	368th	63
28	Ossett	372nd	62
29	Rothwell	389th	61
–	Crigglestone and Durkar	–	58
30	Honley	433rd	56
31	Otley	448th	55
32	Ilkley	514th	48
33	Guiseley	516th	48

Crigglestone and Durkar by numbers

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Crime, muck and dodgy water

What's left on the high street

Getting about, getting online, getting rained on

Wakefield council

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Crigglestone and DurkarCrap Score 58

HorburyCrap Score 62

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