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Hucknall

Mucky Uckna. Their words.
Twinned with the Hucknall hum

64/100Crap Score

359th crappest of 984 towns, and 10th in Nottinghamshire. Higher scores are crapper.

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What's that bloody humming?

The barbers and vape shops moved in, the kitchens went grim and something keeps humming at night.

Hucknall tested a flying bedstead at the old airfield, and you can see why it wanted to get away. There's a mystery hum that keeps people up at night and nobody has ever owned up to it. The high street went barbers and vape shops, and stayed that way.

Eat with care. The takeaways scoring 0 to 2 on hygiene run at 3.7 times the typical town's share, and there are hardly any public loos to run to afterwards. Some knobhead keeps torching the bins too, at nearly twice the typical town's rate of deliberate fires. Locals call it Mucky Uckna. They'd know.

What the score is made of

Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.

Hucknall's 91 for food hygiene means it's crapper than 91% of towns.

  • Food hygiene91/1007.1% rated 0 to 2, of the 169 food businesses with a rating
  • Deliberate fires77/10011.1 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
  • Anti-social behaviour77/10020.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Air pollution76/1009.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
  • Criminal damage and arson60/1007.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Rain50/100128 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
  • Sewage spills45/100229 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
  • Fly-tipping37/1008.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Ashfield council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
  • Serious road collisions34/1002.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
  • Broadband3/1001.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.0% across the Ashfield council area
Your patch: NottinghamshireTowns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
PosTownNationalScore
6Clifton246th75
7Kirkby-in-Ashfield258th74
8Stapleford289th71
9Eastwood323rd67
10Hucknall359th64
11Retford390th60
12Forest Town443rd55
13Mansfield Woodhouse446th55
14Balderton450th54

Hucknall by numbers

Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.

Crime, muck and dodgy water

What's left on the high street

Getting about, getting online, getting rained on

Ashfield council

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HucknallCrap Score 64
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