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Thrybergh and Dalton
98/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 98. Higher scores are crapper.
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Small place, long list
There's a lovely reservoir. There's also a sign telling you to stay out of it.
Thrybergh and Dalton dug coal, made steel and quarried stone, and now has a country park round a reservoir with algae warnings on it. Doncaster Road is a racetrack, and serious crashes run at well over twice the typical town's rate. The off-road bikes tear about and some bright spark keeps smashing things up.
Sewage goes in the water nearby for over ten times the typical town's hours, so the algae's got company. Vandalism is running at twice the typical town's rate and stuff gets torched at four and a half times. There's 1 pub, no park on the map and no swimming pool. It scores the same as Barnsley and it's crapper than Rotherham. Small place, big list.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Thrybergh and Dalton's 97 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 97% of towns.
- Sewage spills97/1002,870 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson96/10014.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions95/1005.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires90/10025.5 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution86/10011.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Fly-tipping84/10020.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rotherham council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Anti-social behaviour78/10021.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene69/1005.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 38 food businesses with a rating
- Rain34/100122 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband1/1001.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.3% across the Rotherham council area
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnsley | 98 |
| – | Thrybergh and Dalton | 98 |
| 2 | Rotherham | 97 |
| 3 | Cudworth and Shafton | 95 |
| 4 | Sheffield | 94 |
| 5 | Rawmarsh | 93 |
| 6 | Mexborough | 92 |
| 7 | Dinnington | 92 |
| 8 | Bentley | 91 |
Thrybergh and Dalton by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 122 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 1.6x the typical town's 76.2
- 4 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 6.8 per 10,000 people, 6.2x the typical town's 1.1
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2022
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub 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
- 12.12am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 60% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 40.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 2.6x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,529 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Rotherham council
- £2,382 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £10 less than the English average
- 9% of Rotherham council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 44% lower than England's 16%
- 2 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Thrybergh and Dalton 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.