Crap Towns / South Yorkshire / Cudworth and Shafton
Cudworth and Shafton
95/100Crap Score
Locals call Cudworth Cudeth.
54th crappest of 984 towns, and 3rd in South Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Bring a bin bag. Bring two.
Fly-tipping, dodgy kitchens, dangerous roads and sewage. Locals mostly argue about the nickname.
Cudworth and Shafton? Grim, mate. Fly-tipping's worse than most and Bloemfontein Street gets the lot. Hygiene ratings worse, roads worse, sewage worse. Litter on the school routes, vandals in the park. And what are locals arguing about? Whether anyone really calls it Cuddy. Not the mattresses. The nickname.
Some knobhead keeps setting the grass and woods alight, at over eight times the typical town's rate. Noise has turned up in 4 serious pollution incidents round here. There's 1 hairdresser and no swimming pool. Only Barnsley and Rotherham are crapper in South Yorkshire, and Cudworth is still on about the nickname.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Cudworth and Shafton's 93 for deliberate fires means it's crapper than 93% of towns.
- Deliberate fires93/10030.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Serious road collisions91/1004.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills88/1001,365 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping83/10020.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Barnsley council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene81/1006.9% rated 0 to 2, of the 58 food businesses with a rating
- Criminal damage and arson72/1008.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution60/1008.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband58/1009.8% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 8.7% across the Barnsley council area
- Anti-social behaviour44/10014.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain25/100119 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnsley | 98 |
| 2 | Rotherham | 97 |
| 3 | Cudworth and Shafton | 95 |
| 4 | Sheffield | 94 |
| 5 | Rawmarsh | 93 |
| 6 | Mexborough | 92 |
| 7 | Dinnington | 92 |
| 8 | Bentley | 91 |
| 9 | Wombwell | 91 |
Cudworth and Shafton by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 76.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 76.2
- 12 reports of graffiti and fly-posting on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026
- 8 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2024
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 8.3% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (1 of 12) Worse: 2.1x the typical town's 4.0%
- 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 Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.46pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2.2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 2.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 86% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,482 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Barnsley council
Have a crap-off
Cudworth and Shafton 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.