Kippax

Garforth is still going on about the pool.

Twinned with Garforth, who's still mad about the pool

44/100Crap Score

555th crappest of 984 towns, and 34th in West Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.

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Garforth's still sore.

Old pit village with a swimming pool Garforth reckons they paid for.

Kippax is an old pit village with a hill fort, a skatepark and a swimming pool that Garforth reckons it raised the money for. The buses are poor, the streets are narrow and there's not much to do or buy. Kippax isn't fussed. It's got the pool.

Over half the village lives further than 400 metres from a park or play area, so the pool's doing a lot of work. The overflows nearby run for nearly four times as long as the typical town's, and somebody keeps setting the grass alight. There's 2 bookies and 1 hairdresser. Garforth can keep its money.

The editor, who didn't bring up the pool in Garforth

What the score is made of

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

Kippax's 83 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 83% of towns.

Sewage spills83/1001,019 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Fly-tipping79/10015.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Leeds council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Deliberate fires79/10013.0 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
Air pollution61/1008.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
Rain49/100127 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Serious road collisions46/1002.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Food hygiene28/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 33 food businesses with a rating
Criminal damage and arson18/1004.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Anti-social behaviour16/1006.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Broadband1/1000.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.0% across the Leeds council area

**Your patch: West Yorkshire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
29	Rothwell	389th	61
30	Honley	433rd	56
31	Otley	448th	55
32	Ilkley	514th	48
33	Guiseley	516th	48
34	Kippax	555th	44
35	Yeadon	563rd	43
36	Garforth	571st	42
In danger of becoming nice from here down.37	Wetherby	822nd	16

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Kippax 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

Leeds council

Have a crap-off

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

Against

KippaxCrap Score 44

Allerton BywaterCrap Score 69

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