Crap Towns / South Yorkshire / Deepcar
Deepcar
52/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 52. Higher scores are crapper.
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Has anyone seen the sun?
A dark valley and a closed station, with sewage in the rivers.
Deepcar sits at the bottom of a dark valley where the Don meets the Little Don, and the overflows nearby dump sewage for over nine times the typical town's hours. You get rain on 144 days a year as well, so the rivers are never short. The station shut years ago.
Carr Road's parked solid at school time, somebody keeps dumping their crap in the lanes, and the builders want the last few fields. Somebody was camping here in the Stone Age and left their flint tools behind. Probably got rained off. The woods are nice. Bring a torch.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Deepcar's 97 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 97% of towns.
- Sewage spills97/1002,604 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping85/10020.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Sheffield council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain70/100144 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Deliberate fires69/1009.6 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Food hygiene62/1006.7% rated 0 to 2, of the 15 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution37/1006.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Anti-social behaviour22/10010.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband21/1003.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 5.9% across the Sheffield council area
- Serious road collisions21/1001.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson16/1004.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | Warmsworth | 70 |
| 19 | Maltby | 65 |
| 20 | Swinton | 61 |
| 21 | Scawthorpe and Cusworth | 57 |
| – | Deepcar | 52 |
| 22 | Darton | 49 |
| 23 | New Rossington and Rossington | 45 |
| 24 | Thorne | 45 |
| 25 | Chapeltown and High Green | 41 |
Deepcar by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 49.9 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 35% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 18 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 31.9 per 10,000 people, 9.4x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2023
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs 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
- 11.31pm 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%
- 0.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: Against the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,507 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Sheffield council
- £2,510 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £118 more than the English average
- 18% of Sheffield council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 13% higher than England's 16%
- 25 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Deepcar 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.