Crap Towns / West Yorkshire / Steeton
Steeton
64/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 64. Higher scores are crapper.
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Steeton. You can see the station.
The station's right there. Getting to it on foot is another matter.
Steeton shares a station with Silsden, and you can see it from the village. Walking there is the problem, because you have to get across the Aire Valley road. Commuters park all over the residential streets, and the hospital's been after a footpath to the station for years.
The overflows nearby run for over eight and a half times as long as the typical town's, and Bradford's fly-tipping is about three times the typical council's. It chucks it down on 154 days a year and the sun's out for 1,298 hours. Nobody kicks off, to be fair. There's a wartime pillbox, and a nice bell on the green.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Steeton's 96 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 96% of towns.
- Sewage spills96/1002,369 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping93/10032.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Bradford council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain78/100154 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions70/1003.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires56/1006.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Food hygiene55/1003.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 30 food businesses with a rating
- Criminal damage and arson34/1005.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution21/1006.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband15/1003.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.5% across the Bradford council area
- Anti-social behaviour6/1004.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | Normanton | 68 |
| 24 | Featherstone | 68 |
| 25 | Brighouse | 66 |
| 26 | Morley | 66 |
| – | Steeton | 64 |
| 27 | East Ardsley | 63 |
| 28 | Ossett | 62 |
| 29 | Rothwell | 61 |
| 30 | Honley | 56 |
Steeton by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 76.3 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
- 2 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 4.0 per 10,000 people, 18% higher than the typical town's 3.4
- 3 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2022
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs 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
- midnight last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 0.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: Against the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,298 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 15% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Bradford council
- £2,361 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £31 less than the English average
- 13% of Bradford council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 19% lower than England's 16%
- 27 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Steeton 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.