Crap Towns / Greater Manchester / Dukinfield
Dukinfield
79/100Crap Score
205th crappest of 984 towns, and 38th in Greater Manchester. Higher scores are crapper.
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Duki's kitchens are spotless, mind.
Still writes Cheshire on the post, decades after it stopped being true.
Dukinfield's been in Tameside since the seventies and plenty of the town still writes Cheshire on the envelope. Fair play, the kitchens are spotless. Not one food business is rated 0 to 2. Everything else is filthy.
Sewage comes out of the overflows for eight times as long as in the typical town, and somebody sets a fire more than three times as often, mostly on the grass. The air's well over half as bad again as the typical town's. Lime Street gets fly-tipped, cleared up and fly-tipped again before the council van's out of sight. There's no public pool, and four in ten people live over 400 metres from a park or a swing.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Dukinfield's 95 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 95% of towns.
- Sewage spills95/1002,229 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Air pollution93/10013.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires88/10019.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Rain82/100159 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions72/1003.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Fly-tipping70/10015.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Tameside council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Criminal damage and arson64/1008.1 per 1,000 people a year, July 2023 to June 2026
- Anti-social behaviour51/10015.5 per 1,000 people a year, July 2023 to June 2026
- Broadband13/1002.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.9% across the Tameside council area
- Food hygiene7/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 93 food businesses with a rating
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | Hindley | 81 |
| 35 | Radcliffe | 81 |
| 36 | Whitefield | 81 |
| 37 | Little Lever | 80 |
| 38 | Dukinfield | 79 |
| 39 | Prestwich | 79 |
| 40 | Wigan | 77 |
| 41 | Hyde | 75 |
| 42 | Atherton | 74 |
Dukinfield by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 92.7 crimes per 1,000 people a year (July 2023 to June 2026) Worse: 22% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 6 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 2.8 per 10,000 people, 2.5x the typical town's 1.1
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2024
What's left on the high street
- 7 pubs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 17) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 3 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.4 per 10,000 people, 13% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- None public swimming pools open; 1 closed for good since 2010 Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
- 2 places on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.53am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later 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%
- 41.6% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.7x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,329 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 13% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Tameside council
Have a crap-off
Dukinfield 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.