Crap Towns / North Yorkshire / Ingleby Barwick
Ingleby Barwick
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
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 17 | Ripon | 15 |
| 18 | Ingleby Barwick | 8 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Ingleby Barwick by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 35.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 53% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 8 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 About the same: 3.4 per 10,000 people, about the same as the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2017
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 1 charity shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 10) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.4 per 10,000 people, 75% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 3 public swimming pools open Better: 1.3 per 10,000 people, 1.9x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.04pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.9% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 1.8x the typical town's 0.5%
- 24.9% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 1.6x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,432 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 7% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Stockton-on-Tees council
- £2,590 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £198 more than the English average
- 14% of Stockton-on-Tees council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 13% lower than England's 16%
- 7 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Ingleby Barwick 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.