Crap Towns / Nottinghamshire / New Ollerton and Ollerton
New Ollerton and Ollerton
54/100Crap Score
451st crappest of 984 towns, and 15th in Nottinghamshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Fix the roundabout. Please. Anyone.
Sherwood Forest is right there. You'll get a good look at it from the roundabout queue.
Ollerton's main feature is the roundabout, and they've been promising to fix it for years. Old buildings stand empty, the high street is vape shops and bookies, and the pit's now an energy village. Very modern.
Sherwood Forest is just up the road, and the local firebugs seem to have taken that personally. The deliberate fires come in at 2.7 times the typical town's rate, mostly grass, woods and crops. A Band D home pays £2,682 in council tax, 12% above England's average. The roundabout's still not done.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
New Ollerton and Ollerton's 83 for deliberate fires means it's crapper than 83% of towns.
- Deliberate fires83/10015.4 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson66/1008.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping64/10013.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Newark and Sherwood council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions63/1002.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Broadband59/1006.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 15.9% across the Newark and Sherwood council area
- Sewage spills59/100390 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Air pollution41/1006.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Anti-social behaviour40/10013.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain28/100120 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene17/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 57 food businesses with a rating
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18 | Arnold | 25 |
| 19 | Carlton | 25 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
New Ollerton and Ollerton by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 73.1 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of broken street lights on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 0.9 per 10,000 people, 29% higher than the typical town's 0.7
What's left on the high street
- 6 pubs, 6 hairdressers, 1 charity shop, 2 bookmakers, 2 vape shops on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 11) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 9.2 per 100,000 people, 2.7x the typical town's 3.4
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 1.8 per 10,000 people, 13% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open; 1 closed for good since 2010 Better: 0.9 per 10,000 people, 29% higher than the typical English town's 0.7
- 2 places on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.16am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as 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%
- 18.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 21% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,529 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Newark and Sherwood council
- £2,682 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £290 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%
- 1 ombudsman complaint upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
New Ollerton and Ollerton 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.