Crap Towns / West Yorkshire / Honley
Honley
56/100Crap Score
433rd crappest of 984 towns, and 30th in West Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27
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Letters from the locals
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Up the bloody hill.
Pretty Holme Valley village. Burnt bins at the station, and a climb to get there that'll finish you off.
Honley's a pretty village with an agricultural show and hardly any crime. Then there's the station, up a sodding great hill, covered in rubbish with burnt-out bins. Parking's been a war since the charges came in. Nice show, though.
Sewage comes out of the overflows nearby for nearly sixteen times as long as in the typical town. Lovely Holme Valley scenery, and the river through it is full of shit. It chucks it down on 157 days a year, so it's full of everything else as well. Serious crashes run well over the typical town's rate, which on these lanes takes some doing.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Honley's 99 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Sewage spills99/1004,315 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Serious road collisions88/1004.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Fly-tipping82/10019.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Kirklees council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain81/100157 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband62/10012.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.8% across the Kirklees council area
- Air pollution29/1006.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires25/1003.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour16/1006.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene6/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 99 food businesses with a rating
- Criminal damage and arson4/1003.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | Morley | 66 |
| 27 | East Ardsley | 63 |
| 28 | Ossett | 62 |
| 29 | Rothwell | 61 |
| 30 | Honley | 56 |
| 31 | Otley | 55 |
| 32 | Ilkley | 48 |
| 33 | Guiseley | 48 |
| 34 | Kippax | 44 |
Honley by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 48.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 37% 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: 0.7 per 10,000 people, 79% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 5 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2023
What's left on the high street
- 8 pubs, 11 hairdressers, 1 charity shop, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 12) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.7 per 10,000 people, 56% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open About the same: 0.7 per 10,000 people, about the same as the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.39pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2.4x the typical town's 0.5%
- 11.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 24% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,386 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 10% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Kirklees council
- £2,441 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £49 more than the English average
- 22% of Kirklees council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 38% higher than England's 16%
- 22 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Honley 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.