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Stocksbridge

Stocky. Waiting for the Sheffield bus.
Twinned with Sheffield, if the bus ever comes

75/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 75. Higher scores are crapper.

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Still at the bus stop.

Stocky made steel and umbrella frames. Now it makes people wait for buses.

Stocksbridge sits at the bottom of a steep valley and made steel and umbrella frames. Now it's vape shops and Greggs, and a bus into Sheffield that might turn up. Some idiot keeps smashing things, somebody else keeps dumping rubbish up the lanes, and the sewage goes in the Little Don. For a small town, it's very good at being crap.

There's 2 vape shops, which per head is over nine times the typical town's, and no public park on the map. The rain turns up on 145 days a year. There's 2 swimming pools, mind, which is as well, because nobody's going in the Little Don. The bypass is meant to be haunted by ghost children. Probably waiting for the Sheffield bus.

What the score is made of

Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.

Stocksbridge's 93 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 93% of towns.

  • Sewage spills93/1001,896 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
  • Fly-tipping85/10020.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Sheffield council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
  • Criminal damage and arson84/10010.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Rain70/100145 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
  • Broadband67/10013.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 5.9% across the Sheffield council area
  • Deliberate fires66/1008.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
  • Anti-social behaviour43/10014.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Food hygiene40/1001.7% rated 0 to 2, of the 58 food businesses with a rating
  • Serious road collisions35/1001.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
  • Air pollution34/1006.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
Your patch: South YorkshireTowns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
PosTownNationalScore
13Swallownest and Aston202nd80
14Conisbrough207th79
15Royston216th78
16Dunscroft and Hatfield235th76
–Stocksbridge–75
17Adwick le Street263rd73
18Warmsworth296th70
19Maltby347th65
20Swinton380th61

Stocksbridge by numbers

Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.

Crime, muck and dodgy water

What's left on the high street

Getting about, getting online, getting rained on

Sheffield council

Have a crap-off

Stocksbridge against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.

StocksbridgeCrap Score 75
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DeepcarCrap Score 52

Ten ingredients. One verdict. Who's crapper? The higher Crap Score takes it.