Crap Towns / Hampshire / Chandler's Ford
Chandler's Ford
3/100Crap Score
Locals call it ChoFo.
957th crappest of 984 towns, and 30th in Hampshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27
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Letters from the locals
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Smug, leafy and miles from milk.
Leafy, safe, expensive and smug as you like. You need a car to buy milk.
Chandler's Ford is barely crap at all and knows it. Good schools, crime at under half the typical town's and house prices that got it called Chandler's Can't Afford. Locals call it the village. It's a suburb with a precinct. Nothing for teenagers to do, and don't you dare tell them.
It's got 15 hairdressers and 6 pubs, so the big night out is a blow-dry. There's no bus after 1.18am, which in ChoFo is the middle of the night.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Chandler's Ford's 56 for broadband means it's crapper than 56% of towns.
- Broadband56/1008.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.7% across the Eastleigh council area
- Food hygiene56/1002.9% rated 0 to 2, of the 103 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution54/1009.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Rain46/100126 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions30/1001.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills18/10036.2 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2024 to 2025
- Fly-tipping11/1004.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Eastleigh council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires5/1002.0 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson3/1003.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour1/1005.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | West End | 10 |
| 24 | Locks Heath | 9 |
| 25 | Alton | 9 |
| 26 | Hythe and Dibden Purlieu | 6 |
| 27 | South Hayling | 5 |
| 28 | Hedge End | 4 |
| 29 | Horndean | 3 |
| 30 | Chandler's Ford | 3 |
| 31 | Lee-on-the-Solent | 0 |
Chandler's Ford by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 34.8 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 54% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 54 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 16.9 per 10,000 people, 5x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 6 pubs, 15 hairdressers, 4 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 1 vape shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 6.3% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (1 of 16) Worse: 1.6x the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Better: 3.1 per 100,000 people, 9% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 4 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.3 per 10,000 people, 19% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Worse: 0.3 per 10,000 people, 57% lower than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 1.18am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 15.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space About the same: About the same as the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,642 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 7% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Eastleigh council
- £2,342 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £50 less than the English average
- 8% of Hampshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 50% lower than England's 16%
- 1 ombudsman complaint upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Chandler's Ford 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.