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Ingleby Barwick

Don't call it South Thornaby.
Twinned with South Thornaby, which they hate

8/100Crap Score

Known as Ingleby Barbaric.

910th crappest of 984 towns, and 18th in North Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.

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Legoland. Still building.

Ingleby Barwick is miles of houses that all look the same. Locals call it Toytown, and they're right.

Ingleby Barwick is a massive estate of houses that all look the same, and locals call it Toytown or Legoland. It's safe and quiet. The trouble is getting out. Rush hour's a queue to leave, the schools and doctors are full, there's not much to do and they keep building more houses on whatever green bits are left. Lego, basically.

Nobody does anything wrong. Crime's under half the typical town's and the vandalism about a third, which is what happens when everyone's indoors. There's 1 public toilet for the whole estate, and Stockton council recycles less than a quarter of the bins. They found a Roman villa under it once. The Romans had more going on.

What the score is made of

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

Ingleby Barwick's 72 for deliberate fires means it's crapper than 72% of towns.

  • Deliberate fires72/10010.0 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
  • Sewage spills57/100377 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
  • Fly-tipping57/10010.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Stockton-on-Tees council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
  • Rain39/100123 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
  • Air pollution30/1007.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
  • Food hygiene19/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 53 food businesses with a rating
  • Broadband15/1001.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 8.0% across the Stockton-on-Tees council area
  • Anti-social behaviour10/1008.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Serious road collisions3/1000.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
  • Criminal damage and arson1/1002.5 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
10Northallerton436th56
11Selby481st51
12Huntington533rd46
13Haxby589th40
In danger of becoming nice from here down.14Catterick Garrison681st31
15Knaresborough743rd25
16Harrogate826th16
17Ripon838th15
18Ingleby Barwick910th8

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Ingleby Barwick 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

Stockton-on-Tees council

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

Ingleby BarwickCrap Score 8
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EgglescliffeCrap Score 24

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