Crap Towns / North Yorkshire / Huntington
Huntington
46/100Crap Score
533rd crappest of 984 towns, and 12th in North Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27
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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
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Thornaby-on-Tees | 71 |
| 9 | Whitby | 64 |
| 10 | Northallerton | 56 |
| 11 | Selby | 51 |
| 12 | Huntington | 46 |
| 13 | Haxby | 40 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.14 | Catterick Garrison | 31 |
| 15 | Knaresborough | 25 |
| 16 | Harrogate | 16 |
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
- 58.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 24% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 12 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 9.7 per 10,000 people, 2.9x the typical town's 3.4
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs, 6 hairdressers, 1 charity shop, 1 bookmaker, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 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; 2 closed for good since 2010 Better: 2.4 per 10,000 people, 3.4x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.06am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 18.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 16% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,413 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 8% lower than the typical town's 1,532
York council
Have a crap-off
Huntington 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.