Crap Towns / South Yorkshire / Sprotbrough
Sprotbrough
29/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 29. Higher scores are crapper.
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Posh bit of Donny.
Pretty village above the River Don. Nobody misbehaves. The motorway hums all night.
Sprotbrough sits above the Don gorge with a waterfall and a canal, looking down on Doncaster, and nothing bad happens. The moans: people rat-running down Spring Lane and Main Street, cars on the pavement, buses into Donny that don't turn up, the motorway droning across the valley and the power keeps going off. They'll live.
Crime's about half the typical town's and nobody smashes anything, so the power cuts are the big news. There's no public park on the map, mind, so all that lovely gorge is doing the work. The last bus home is at 10.26pm. Doncaster's right there. That's the point.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Sprotbrough's 78 for air pollution means it's crapper than 78% of towns.
- Air pollution78/1009.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires71/10010.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Serious road collisions70/1003.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene61/1006.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 16 food businesses with a rating
- Sewage spills41/100188 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping31/1008.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Doncaster council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain27/100120 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour12/1008.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson4/1003.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband2/1001.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.6% across the Doncaster council area
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Scawthorpe and Cusworth | 57 |
| 22 | Darton | 49 |
| 23 | New Rossington and Rossington | 45 |
| 24 | Thorne | 45 |
| 25 | Chapeltown and High Green | 41 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.26 | Armthorpe | 36 |
| 27 | Wickersley and Bramley | 32 |
| – | Sprotbrough | 29 |
| 28 | Kirk Sandall and Edenthorpe | 17 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Sprotbrough by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 39.8 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 48% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of litter and bins on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 1.3 per 10,000 people, 44% higher than the typical town's 0.9
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2023
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs, 1 hairdresser on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 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
- 10.26pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 46.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 3x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,504 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Doncaster council
Have a crap-off
Sprotbrough 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.