Crap Towns / South Yorkshire / Worsbrough
Worsbrough
97/100Crap Score
Known as Worsbro.
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 97. Higher scores are crapper.
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Queue for the tip starts here
A working watermill, a country park and a queue for the tip down West Street.
Worsbrough has a working watermill, a reservoir and a country park, and it's a nice spot until you get onto West Street, where the queue for the tip backs up the road. Some folk clearly can't be bothered with the queue, and Barnsley's fly-tipping runs at nearly twice the typical council's.
People speed through the village too, and the bad crashes happen at three times the typical town's rate. Fires get started on purpose at nearly six times the typical rate, burglary at nearly two and a half, and there's 2 vape shops, nearly eight times the typical town's per head. It scores the same as Rotherham. Lovely mill, mind.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Worsbrough's 99 for serious road collisions means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Serious road collisions99/1007.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson94/10013.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires94/10033.1 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Fly-tipping83/10020.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Barnsley council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Sewage spills78/100792 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour71/10018.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene66/1004.7% rated 0 to 2, of the 43 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution57/1008.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Rain51/100128 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Broadband20/1002.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 8.7% across the Barnsley council area
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnsley | 98 |
| 2 | Rotherham | 97 |
| – | Worsbrough | 97 |
| 3 | Cudworth and Shafton | 95 |
| 4 | Sheffield | 94 |
| 5 | Rawmarsh | 93 |
| 6 | Mexborough | 92 |
| 7 | Dinnington | 92 |
| 8 | Bentley | 91 |
Worsbrough by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 113 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 48% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 9 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 10.2 per 10,000 people, 3x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2016
What's left on the high street
- 7 pubs, 7 hairdressers, 2 vape shops on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.3 per 10,000 people, 44% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- 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
- 12.26am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.5% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 0.5%
- 16.4% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 6% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,500 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Barnsley council
Have a crap-off
Worsbrough 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.