Crap Towns / County Durham / Easington
Easington
65/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 65. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
Slow down, man.
They filmed Billy Elliot next door. Easington got the vandals and the boy racers.
Easington Colliery got Billy Elliot and the brass band. Easington got idiots doing daft speeds down Sunderland Road and a speed limit sign that fell over and got left in the verge. The council keeps doing traffic studies. Nothing happens.
The vandalism's nearly three times the typical town's, and stuff gets torched at over ten times. Shoplifting's five times the typical town's, in a village with 1 pub, 1 hairdresser and 1 vape shop, so God knows what they're nicking. The sign's still in the verge.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Easington's 99 for criminal damage and arson means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Criminal damage and arson99/10020.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires98/10060.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Sewage spills72/100651 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping56/10010.5 incidents per 1,000 people a year, County Durham council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene55/1003.5% rated 0 to 2, of the 29 food businesses with a rating
- Anti-social behaviour54/10015.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband50/1005.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.6% across the County Durham council area
- Serious road collisions37/1002.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Rain32/100121 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Air pollution18/1005.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Spennymoor | 74 |
| 7 | Stockton-on-Tees | 73 |
| 8 | Peterlee | 71 |
| 9 | Durham | 70 |
| – | Easington | 65 |
| 10 | Consett | 63 |
| 11 | Seaham | 60 |
| 12 | Newton Aycliffe | 58 |
| 13 | Billingham | 52 |
Easington by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 143 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 1.9x the typical town's 76.2
- 1 problem reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.4 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 2017
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub, 1 hairdresser, 1 vape shop 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
- 11.56pm 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%
- 6.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 59% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,560 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
County Durham council
Have a crap-off
Easington 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.