Thurcroft

The pit's gone. The bus is going.

Twinned with a bus due sometime

74/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 74. Higher scores are crapper.

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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27

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No proper pub. Think about that.

An old pit village with a brass band, a bus that rarely shows and no proper pub.

Thurcroft's an old pit village where the miners tried to buy the pit to save it. It shut anyway. Now the buses barely run, so you need a car, and Bluebell Lane's jammed at rush hour. There's no proper pub. No pub. At least there's a Greggs.

There's no public park on the map either, so nearly two thirds of the village is more than 400 metres from anywhere to play. The local firebugs set the grass alight at over six and a half times the typical town's rate, and the vandalism's nearly twice the typical town's. The brass band's still going. Somebody's got to keep the place cheerful.

The editor, who should have brought the car

What the score is made of

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

Thurcroft's 93 for criminal damage and arson means it's crapper than 93% of towns.

Criminal damage and arson93/10012.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Deliberate fires87/10019.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
Fly-tipping84/10020.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rotherham council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Air pollution78/1009.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
Anti-social behaviour73/10019.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Serious road collisions64/1003.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Sewage spills39/100173 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Rain33/100122 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Food hygiene27/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 35 food businesses with a rating
Broadband2/1001.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.3% across the Rotherham council area

**Your patch: South Yorkshire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
13	Swallownest and Aston	202nd	80
14	Conisbrough	207th	79
15	Royston	216th	78
16	Dunscroft and Hatfield	235th	76
–	Thurcroft	–	74
17	Adwick le Street	263rd	73
18	Warmsworth	296th	70
19	Maltby	347th	65
20	Swinton	380th	61

Thurcroft 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

Rotherham council

Have a crap-off

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

Against

ThurcroftCrap Score 74

Wickersley and BramleyCrap Score 32

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