Crap Towns / Leicestershire / Lutterworth
Lutterworth
2/100Crap Score
969th crappest of 984 towns, and 14th in Leicestershire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Lutterworth. Sheds, sheds, sheds.
They built the jet engine here. Now it's warehouses as far as you can see.
Lutterworth helped invent the jet engine and has a fake jet on a roundabout to prove it. Now it's surrounded by distribution sheds so big the old town looks like a toy. Every field disappears under another one, and the lorries come straight through the middle.
Crime's low, the fly-tippers stay away and hardly anything gets set on fire. There's a Greggs, which per head works out at 3.3 times the typical town's. The Sunday buses barely run, which is odd for a place whose whole job is moving things about. Otherwise? Sheds. Fucking massive sheds.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Lutterworth's 83 for broadband means it's crapper than 83% of towns.
- Broadband83/10013.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 19.2% across the Harborough council area
- Air pollution58/1008.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Rain48/100127 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene34/1001.4% rated 0 to 2, of the 71 food businesses with a rating
- Criminal damage and arson24/1005.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills12/10013.4 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Serious road collisions12/1001.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires7/1001.9 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour4/1006.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping4/1003.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Harborough council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Hinckley | 11 |
| 11 | Mountsorrel | 10 |
| 12 | Earl Shilton | 9 |
| 13 | Ashby-de-la-Zouch | 7 |
| 14 | Lutterworth | 2 |
| 15 | Syston | 1 |
| 16 | Market Harborough | 1 |
| 17 | Wigston | 1 |
| 18 | Birstall | 1 |
Lutterworth by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 55.4 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 27% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.9 per 10,000 people, 44% lower than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 7 pubs, 11 hairdressers, 4 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 2 banks, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 14) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 9.5 per 100,000 people, 2.8x the typical town's 3.4
- 3 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.9 per 10,000 people, 1.8x the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Better: 1.0 per 10,000 people, 43% higher than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.10pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.4% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 20% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 4.6% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 70% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,519 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Harborough council
- £2,390 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £2 less than the English average
- 11% of Leicestershire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 31% lower than England's 16%
- 1 ombudsman complaint upheld against the council in 2025-26
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Have a crap-off
Lutterworth 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.