Crap Towns / Leicestershire / Groby
Groby
6/100Crap Score
Locals call it Groobeh.
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 6. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
Yellow lines? Painted over.
A lake, some woods, and a lot of cars parked on the pavement.
Groby's got a pretty pool full of wildlife, some woods, an old castle mound and hardly any crime. So what do they fight about? Parking. The school run blocks everything, people park on the pavement on Ratby Road, the yellow lines keep getting painted over and the football lot park across your drive. That's Groby.
There's 1 pub in the whole village and 1 bookie, so a big night out doesn't take long. Groby Pool's lovely, but it's the only pool there is, and it's full of ducks. Somebody has a go at Quarry Park now and then. Otherwise nothing.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Groby's 76 for air pollution means it's crapper than 76% of towns.
- Air pollution76/1009.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Sewage spills45/100230 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain45/100125 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband43/1002.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 16.4% across the Hinckley and Bosworth council area
- Food hygiene39/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 15 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping26/1007.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Hinckley and Bosworth council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Criminal damage and arson21/1005.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions10/1000.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires3/1000.9 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour1/1005.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Hinckley | 11 |
| 11 | Mountsorrel | 10 |
| 12 | Earl Shilton | 9 |
| 13 | Ashby-de-la-Zouch | 7 |
| – | Groby | 6 |
| 14 | Lutterworth | 2 |
| 15 | Syston | 1 |
| 16 | Market Harborough | 1 |
| 17 | Wigston | 1 |
Groby by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 40.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 47% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.5 per 10,000 people, 56% lower than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub, 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
- 11.25pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 60% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 4.5% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 71% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,493 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Hinckley and Bosworth council
- £2,383 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £9 less than the English average
- 11% of Leicestershire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 31% lower than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Groby 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.