Crap Towns / West Sussex / Broadbridge Heath
Broadbridge Heath
13/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 13. Higher scores are crapper.
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It's a Tesco.
A village next to Horsham where the big night out is getting stuck in Tesco's car park.
What's in Broadbridge Heath? Tesco. Big one. Next to the leisure centre. End of the list. The biggest drama in the village is trying to get out of the car park over speed bumps that rattle your fillings out. Crime's low, crashes are rare, more houses keep going up. Nothing happens. Ever.
It's got parks at over three times the typical town's per head and public toilets at nearly five times, so you can walk off the meal deal and find a loo after. There's 1 pub. There's no bus after 7.43pm, and that's the nightlife sorted.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Broadbridge Heath's 74 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 74% of towns.
- Sewage spills74/100703 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2024 to 2025
- Broadband61/1003.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 23.7% across the Horsham council area
- Food hygiene42/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 10 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping39/1009.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Horsham council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution37/1006.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Rain23/100118 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Criminal damage and arson18/1004.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions17/1001.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour13/1008.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires7/100
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Haywards Heath | 37 |
| 12 | Burgess Hill | 36 |
| 13 | Horsham | 34 |
| 14 | Lancing and Sompting | 30 |
| 15 | Hassocks and Hurstpierpoint | 26 |
| 16 | Selsey | 16 |
| 17 | Rustington | 15 |
| – | Broadbridge Heath | 13 |
| 18 | Southwater | 7 |
Broadbridge Heath by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 43.7 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 43% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of broken street lights on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 1.6 per 10,000 people, 2.3x the typical town's 0.7
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2023
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub, 2 hairdressers on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 5 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 7.9 per 10,000 people, 4.9x 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
- 7.43pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than 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%
- 5.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 66% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,668 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 9% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Horsham council
- £2,441 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £49 more than the English average
- 19% of West Sussex County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 19% higher than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Broadbridge Heath 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.