Crap Towns / Cheshire / Culcheth
Culcheth
16/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 16. Higher scores are crapper.
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agree it's crap have defended it
A bus, now and then
A tidy village with a green and a long argument about anyone building near it.
Culcheth's nice and it knows it. Village green, the old railway turned into a Linear Park, hardly any crime and nobody crashing. Suggest a single house on the green belt and the whole village turns up to the meeting.
It's also got a bookie's and a river full of shit. The storm overflows round Culcheth spill for nine and a half times as long as the typical town's. Warrington Road's a car park at rush hour, and if you park on Lodge Drive you'll get a ticket.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Culcheth's 97 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 97% of towns.
- Sewage spills97/1002,608 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain80/100157 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Air pollution59/1009.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene52/1002.8% rated 0 to 2, of the 36 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires46/1005.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Fly-tipping25/1007.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Warrington council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Broadband6/1001.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.0% across the Warrington council area
- Anti-social behaviour6/1004.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions3/1000.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson1/1002.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Neston | 28 |
| 14 | Alsager | 22 |
| 15 | Lymm | 21 |
| 16 | Wilmslow | 21 |
| – | Culcheth | 16 |
| 17 | Poynton | 15 |
| 18 | Knutsford | 14 |
| 19 | Macclesfield | 12 |
| 20 | Davenham | 12 |
Culcheth by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 35.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 54% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 problem reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.5 per 10,000 people, 93% lower than the typical town's 20.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2019
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 1 hairdresser, 1 bookmaker on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 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
- 11.57pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 80% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 60.4% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 3.9x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,454 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 5% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Warrington council
- £2,448 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £56 more than the English average
- 13% of Warrington council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 19% lower than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Culcheth 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.