Crap Towns / South Yorkshire / Stainforth
Stainforth
91/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 91. Higher scores are crapper.
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Stainy. The vandals are keeping busy.
The old pit still needs redeveloping. Stainy's vandals have found plenty to be getting on with.
Stainforth is worse than most on the lot: aggro, vandals, dodgy kitchens, road crashes and sewage. Some idiots chucked bricks at the buses, so the buses stopped running for a bit. The park gets smashed up, things get nicked, and the old pit site with its listed headstocks is still waiting to be redeveloped. Somebody nicknamed it Shitstainforth. Harsh, but you can see why.
Car crime sits at over four times the typical town's rate, vandalism at over three, and stuff gets torched at over ten. Serious crashes are nearly three times the typical town's. The buses are back, which is handy for when your car gets nicked. There's 1 pub and no park on the map.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Stainforth's 99 for criminal damage and arson means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Criminal damage and arson99/10024.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires98/10060.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Serious road collisions98/1006.7 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour93/10029.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills85/1001,146 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Food hygiene79/1008.1% rated 0 to 2, of the 37 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution53/1007.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Fly-tipping31/1008.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Doncaster council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain8/100113 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband7/1002.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.6% across the Doncaster council area
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Sheffield | 94 |
| 5 | Rawmarsh | 93 |
| 6 | Mexborough | 92 |
| 7 | Dinnington | 92 |
| – | Stainforth | 91 |
| 8 | Bentley | 91 |
| 9 | Wombwell | 91 |
| 10 | Doncaster | 88 |
| 11 | Hoyland | 88 |
Stainforth by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 158 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 2.1x the typical town's 76.2
- 1 problem reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.7 per 10,000 people, 92% lower than the typical town's 20.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2022
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub, 3 hairdressers 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
- 11.49pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 80% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 34.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 2.2x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,493 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
Stainforth 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.