Crap Towns / Nottinghamshire / Mansfield Woodhouse
Mansfield Woodhouse
55/100Crap Score
Locals call it Wood'us.
446th crappest of 984 towns, and 13th in Nottinghamshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Wood'us. More rubbish.
The stone for the Houses of Parliament came from here. That's the best thing they've done.
Mansfield Woodhouse dug the stone for the Houses of Parliament, and had a Roman villa before that. The pit's gone and the old tip has been planted over as Oxclose Wood, so the nicest bit of Wood'us used to be a heap of mining waste.
These days it's rubbish. Mansfield council's fly-tipping runs at 1.7 times the typical English council's rate, and when people aren't dumping bins they're setting fire to them, at 1.8 times the typical town's rate. There's no pool and barely a public loo. The station car park charges, so the commuters block Albert Street instead.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Mansfield Woodhouse's 78 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 78% of towns.
- Fly-tipping78/10018.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Mansfield council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution74/1009.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires73/10010.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour56/10016.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills52/100302 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Serious road collisions48/1002.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson40/1006.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain33/100122 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene33/1001.4% rated 0 to 2, of the 73 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband7/1001.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.0% across the Mansfield council area
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Eastwood | 67 |
| 10 | Hucknall | 64 |
| 11 | Retford | 60 |
| 12 | Forest Town | 55 |
| 13 | Mansfield Woodhouse | 55 |
| 14 | Balderton | 54 |
| 15 | New Ollerton and Ollerton | 54 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.16 | Beeston | 35 |
| 17 | West Bridgford | 33 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Mansfield Woodhouse by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 58.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 23% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 5 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 2.6 per 10,000 people, 24% lower than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 8 pubs, 13 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 2 bookmakers, 2 vape shops, 1 bank, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 12) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.5 per 10,000 people, 69% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 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
- 11.31pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 20% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 18.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 21% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,495 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Mansfield council
- £2,600 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £208 more than the English average
- 19% of Nottinghamshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 19% higher than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Mansfield Woodhouse 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.