Crap Towns / Greater Manchester / Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe
83/100Crap Score
170th crappest of 984 towns, and 31st in Greater Manchester. Higher scores are crapper.
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Wivvy's got a sofa in the hedge.
Planned as a Garden City, and the gardens are still there. So's whatever somebody tipped in them last night.
Wythenshawe was built as a Garden City and it's still green, with Wythenshawe Hall and its park in the middle. The airport's next door, so jets go over your chippy tea all evening. The Civic does the shopping. The fly-tippers do the verges, and some bright spark's always smashing something. The tram gets you to the airport, if you can sit through it.
Crime runs at nearly twice the typical town's rate. Robbery's nearly five times the typical town's, car crime's more than double, and leave a bike out and it's gone. The air's 1.6 times the typical town's for nitrogen dioxide, with the planes chipping in.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Wythenshawe's 89 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 89% of towns.
- Fly-tipping89/10025.6 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Manchester council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution85/10013.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Criminal damage and arson85/10010.5 per 1,000 people a year, July 2023 to June 2026
- Rain80/100156 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour76/10020.2 per 1,000 people a year, July 2023 to June 2026
- Deliberate fires64/1007.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Food hygiene63/1003.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 395 food businesses with a rating
- Serious road collisions38/1002.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills37/100145 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Broadband29/1003.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 10.0% across the Manchester council area
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | Littleborough | 84 |
| 28 | Chadderton | 84 |
| 29 | Old Trafford | 83 |
| 30 | Irlam | 83 |
| 31 | Wythenshawe | 83 |
| 32 | Failsworth | 81 |
| 33 | Platt Bridge and Abram | 81 |
| 34 | Hindley | 81 |
| 35 | Radcliffe | 81 |
Wythenshawe by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 143 crimes per 1,000 people a year (July 2023 to June 2026) Worse: 1.9x the typical town's 76.2
- 42 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 4.3 per 10,000 people, 26% higher than the typical town's 3.4
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 22 pubs, 25 hairdressers, 5 charity shops, 7 bookmakers, 2 vape shops, 4 banks, 3 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 3.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (2 of 66) Better: 25% lower than the typical town's 4.0%
- 2 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Better: 2.0 per 100,000 people, 41% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 10 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.0 per 10,000 people, 38% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 3 public swimming pools open; 1 closed for good since 2010 Worse: 0.3 per 10,000 people, 57% lower than the typical English town's 0.7
- 2 places on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- All night buses on a Wednesday Better: The typical town's last bus goes at 12.14am
- 0.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 20% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 22.4% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 45% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,411 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 8% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Manchester council
- £2,312 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £80 less than the English average
- 13% of Manchester council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 19% lower than England's 16%
- 34 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
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Have a crap-off
Wythenshawe 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.