Crap Towns / Derbyshire / Killamarsh
Killamarsh
10/100Crap Score
Locals call it T'Marsh.
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 10. Higher scores are crapper.
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Killamarsh. Still buffering.
Hard-sounding name, well-behaved place. The broadband and the last bus are the only villains.
Killamarsh sounds like it should be rough, but it's quiet, safe and has Rother Valley Country Park next door. The shoplifters can't be bothered and hardly anything gets nicked. Locals call it T'Marsh, which also sounds harder than it is.
The real problem is getting anywhere. The tram stops at a place called Halfway, and on a weeknight the last bus pulls out at 9.57pm. Staying in isn't much better: only 79.1% of premises can get gigabit, well short of the typical town. The play park gets fires and litter. That's about it.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Killamarsh's 88 for broadband means it's crapper than 88% of towns.
- Broadband88/10020.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 12.1% across the North East Derbyshire council area
- Air pollution69/1008.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Sewage spills43/100211 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain42/100124 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Deliberate fires38/1005.0 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Food hygiene25/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 39 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping20/1006.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, North East Derbyshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions18/1001.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson14/1004.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour13/1008.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | Buxton | 42 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.13 | Hadfield | 36 |
| 14 | Long Eaton | 33 |
| 15 | Brimington | 22 |
| 16 | Glossop | 16 |
| 17 | Swadlincote | 14 |
| – | Killamarsh | 10 |
| 18 | Belper | 8 |
| 19 | Dronfield | 4 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Killamarsh by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 44.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 42% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 3 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 About the same: 3.3 per 10,000 people, about the same as the typical town's 3.4
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2020
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 2 hairdressers, 1 charity shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 9.57pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.4% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2.8x the typical town's 0.5%
- 2.9% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 81% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,550 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
North East Derbyshire council
- £2,467 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £75 more than the English average
- 15% of Derbyshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 6% lower than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Killamarsh 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.