Crap Towns / North Yorkshire / Huntington

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Huntington

Hunto. Come for the shops. Stay in the traffic.
Twinned with a car park at Monks Cross

46/100Crap Score

533rd crappest of 984 towns, and 12th in North Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.

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Stadium next to the shops. Genius.

They put the football stadium next to the retail parks. Genius.

Huntington's got an old village by the Foss, which nobody visits, and Monks Cross, which everybody does. Some genius put York City's stadium next to the shopping parks, so on match days the football traffic and the shopping traffic jam each other solid.

There's no public park on the map, but there's room for every shop in York. 2 pubs for the whole place. Bike theft runs at over three times the typical town's, so cycling to Monks Cross isn't the answer either. The sewers overflow for over three times as long as the typical town's, straight into the Foss.

What the score is made of

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

Huntington's 79 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 79% of towns.

  • Sewage spills79/100865 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
  • Anti-social behaviour71/10018.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Deliberate fires65/1008.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
  • Food hygiene51/1002.5% rated 0 to 2, of the 79 food businesses with a rating
  • Broadband47/1007.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.7% across the York council area
  • Fly-tipping43/10010.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, York council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
  • Rain31/100121 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
  • Air pollution27/1007.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
  • Serious road collisions24/1001.7 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
  • Criminal damage and arson21/1005.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Your patch: North YorkshireTowns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
PosTownNationalScore
8Thornaby-on-Tees283rd71
9Whitby357th64
10Northallerton436th56
11Selby481st51
12Huntington533rd46
13Haxby589th40
In danger of becoming nice from here down.14Catterick Garrison681st31
15Knaresborough743rd25
16Harrogate826th16

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Huntington 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

York council

Have a crap-off

Huntington against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.

HuntingtonCrap Score 46
v
HaxbyCrap Score 40

Ten ingredients. One verdict. Who's crapper? The higher Crap Score takes it.