Crap Towns / West Yorkshire / Guiseley
Guiseley
48/100Crap Score
516th crappest of 984 towns, and 33rd in West Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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The chips are good.
Famous chippy country. Get your chips, then sit on the main road while they go cold.
Guiseley is famous for fish and chips, and that's about where the fame stops. The main road through town crawls most of the day, there are retail parks if you like retail parks, and the kitchens are clean, so at least the chips are safe.
There's been 25 serious pollution incidents in or near Guiseley since 2016, and 23 of them were noise. Somebody round here is very loud. It pisses down on 143 days a year and the sun manages 1,328 hours, so you'll be eating those chips in the car. Shoplifting sits at two and a half times the typical town's, and Barclays has gone.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Guiseley's 79 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 79% of towns.
- Fly-tipping79/10015.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Leeds council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain69/100143 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions65/1002.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires56/1006.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution55/1009.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband52/10010.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.0% across the Leeds council area
- Anti-social behaviour42/1009.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills32/100106 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson20/1004.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene11/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 75 food businesses with a rating
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Rothwell | 61 |
| 30 | Honley | 56 |
| 31 | Otley | 55 |
| 32 | Ilkley | 48 |
| 33 | Guiseley | 48 |
| 34 | Kippax | 44 |
| 35 | Yeadon | 43 |
| 36 | Garforth | 42 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.37 | Wetherby | 16 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Guiseley by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 74.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.6 per 10,000 people, 53% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 25 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2022
What's left on the high street
- 7 pubs, 14 hairdressers, 3 charity shops, 1 bank, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 14) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 8.0 per 100,000 people, 2.4x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.8 per 10,000 people, 50% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 3 public swimming pools open Better: 2.4 per 10,000 people, 3.4x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.20am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as 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%
- 36.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.3x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,328 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 13% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Leeds council
Have a crap-off
Guiseley 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.