Crap Towns / Surrey / Frimley
Frimley
4/100Crap Score
940th crappest of 984 towns, and 37th in Surrey. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Round and round the hospital car park
Nice, safe, quiet. You'll spend the whole visit queuing for the hospital car park.
Frimley is so well behaved it's no bloody help to us. The only thing anyone knows it for is the hospital, and the only thing anyone moans about is getting into it. The car park queue backs up the road, the overflow fills every street and the roundabout's jammed. Now they want to move the hospital. Brilliant.
The public pool's shut for good and there isn't another one. The air's dirtier than the typical town's. At least the hospital's close, if you can park.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Frimley's 83 for air pollution means it's crapper than 83% of towns.
- Air pollution83/10011.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions39/1002.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene34/1001.4% rated 0 to 2, of the 70 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband29/1002.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 10.6% across the Surrey Heath council area
- Fly-tipping28/1007.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Surrey Heath council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain24/100119 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Criminal damage and arson20/1004.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires10/100
- Anti-social behaviour10/1008.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | West Molesey | 23 |
| 31 | Farncombe | 23 |
| 32 | Godalming | 22 |
| 33 | Ash and Ash Vale | 19 |
| 34 | Weybourne | 12 |
| 35 | Great Bookham and Fetcham | 9 |
| 36 | Ashtead | 8 |
| 37 | Frimley | 4 |
| 38 | Worcester Park and Stoneleigh | 3 |
Frimley by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 52.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 31% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 632 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 419 per 10,000 people, 123.2x the typical town's 3.4
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2024
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 6 hairdressers, 3 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 1 vape shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 11) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.3 per 10,000 people, 19% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- None public swimming pools open; 1 closed for good since 2010 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
- Under 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Far lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 23.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 1.5x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,626 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 6% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Surrey Heath council
Have a crap-off
Frimley 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.