Crap Towns / Greater Manchester / Reddish
Reddish
60/100Crap Score
396th crappest of 984 towns, and 52nd in Greater Manchester. Higher scores are crapper.
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Reddish South. Open, apparently.
A handsome old mill, a nice valley and a main road some lad races up at midnight.
Reddish has a station, Reddish South, that the trains barely bother with. They were promised a tram instead, and still are. Houldsworth Mill's been done up as flats, though its engine house is officially at risk. Reddish Vale's a decent walk.
The air's 1.7 times the typical town's for nitrogen dioxide, somebody sets a fire more than two and a half times as often, and a 0 to 2 hygiene rating is more than twice as common here as in the typical town. There are 3 pubs and 1 hairdresser for the whole place.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Reddish's 92 for air pollution means it's crapper than 92% of towns.
- Air pollution92/10013.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene83/1005.6% rated 0 to 2, of the 125 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires82/10014.6 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Rain79/100155 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping60/10011.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Stockport council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Criminal damage and arson43/1006.6 per 1,000 people a year, July 2023 to June 2026
- Sewage spills42/100198 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Serious road collisions41/1002.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour33/10012.5 per 1,000 people a year, July 2023 to June 2026
- Broadband8/1001.4% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 5.1% across the Stockport council area
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 48 | Lees | 67 |
| 49 | Ramsbottom | 65 |
| 50 | Marple | 64 |
| 51 | Golborne | 62 |
| 52 | Reddish | 60 |
| 53 | Stretford | 58 |
| 54 | Orrell | 56 |
| 55 | Stockport | 56 |
| 56 | Ashton-in-Makerfield | 51 |
Reddish by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 72.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (July 2023 to June 2026) Better: 6% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 17 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 7.7 per 10,000 people, 7x the typical town's 1.1
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs, 1 hairdresser, 1 bookmaker on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 9.4% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (3 of 32) Worse: 2.4x the typical town's 4.0%
- 4 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 1.8 per 10,000 people, 13% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- 2 public swimming pools open Better: 0.9 per 10,000 people, 29% higher than the typical English town's 0.7
- 1 place on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.13am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- Under 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Far lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 2.5% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 84% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,363 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 11% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Stockport council
Have a crap-off
Reddish 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.