Maltby

Pit's gone. Still playing in the beck.

Twinned with a game of rugby in a beck

65/100Crap Score

347th crappest of 984 towns, and 19th in South Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.

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Maltby. Somebody's lit another bin.

Old pit town that plays ball in a stream. Elsewhere, the bins are on fire.

Maltby is an old pit town that plays a game called beck ball in the stream, which tells you about the entertainment. The pit's shut, the High Street shops are shutting, and Queen's Corner has potholes that come back as soon as they're patched.

Fires get started on purpose at nearly nine times the typical town's rate, and the grass and woods go up at over fifteen times. Half the town's over 400 metres from a park or a swing, so the kids make do with the beck. 3 swimming pools have closed since 2010, which is another reason to play in the stream.

The editor, who thought beck ball sounded wet

What the score is made of

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

Maltby's 98 for deliberate fires means it's crapper than 98% of towns.

Deliberate fires98/10049.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
Fly-tipping84/10020.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rotherham council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Serious road collisions79/1003.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Air pollution73/1009.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
Criminal damage and arson73/1008.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Sewage spills45/100218 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Anti-social behaviour42/10014.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Rain29/100120 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Broadband23/1005.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.3% across the Rotherham council area
Food hygiene8/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 88 food businesses with a rating

**Your patch: South Yorkshire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
15	Royston	216th	78
16	Dunscroft and Hatfield	235th	76
17	Adwick le Street	263rd	73
18	Warmsworth	296th	70
19	Maltby	347th	65
20	Swinton	380th	61
21	Scawthorpe and Cusworth	428th	57
22	Darton	507th	49
23	New Rossington and Rossington	537th	45

Maltby 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

Rotherham council

Have a crap-off

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

Against

MaltbyCrap Score 65

ThurcroftCrap Score 74

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