Crap Towns / Greater London / Hammersmith and Fulham
Hammersmith and Fulham
89/100Crap Score
111th crappest of 984 towns, and 14th in Greater London. Higher scores are crapper.
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That bridge is still shut, then.
Chelsea's ground is in Fulham, and nobody from either place will thank you for pointing it out.
Hammersmith Bridge has been shut to cars since 2019, and the council and the government have been arguing over who pays ever since. So the traffic goes round the gyratory and sits there. White City's old telly centre is flats now, and on match day the whole lot are trying to get on the same Tube.
Everything that can't cross the bridge sits there breathing, and the air has nearly two and a half times the typical town's nitrogen dioxide in it. The fly-tippers dump at five and a half times the typical council's rate. The council tax is £1,520 for a Band D, which is cheap, and you can see where the money isn't going. Shepherd's Bush is the Bush to everyone except the estate agents, who'd like you to say SheBu.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Hammersmith and Fulham's 99 for air pollution means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Air pollution99/10020.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions99/1005.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Fly-tipping98/10060.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Hammersmith and Fulham council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Anti-social behaviour96/10032.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene57/1002.7% rated 0 to 2, of the 1,680 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband56/1009.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.0% across the Hammersmith and Fulham council area
- Criminal damage and arson45/1006.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires25/100
- Sewage spills22/10048.8 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain10/100114 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Croydon | 91 |
| 11 | Ealing | 90 |
| 12 | Newham | 90 |
| 13 | Southwark | 89 |
| 14 | Hammersmith and Fulham | 89 |
| 15 | Hounslow | 89 |
| 16 | Enfield | 88 |
| 17 | Lewisham | 87 |
| 18 | Greenwich | 85 |
Hammersmith and Fulham by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 114 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 50% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 65 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 About the same: 3.5 per 10,000 people, about the same as the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 99 pubs, 145 hairdressers, 25 charity shops, 23 bookmakers, 12 vape shops, 13 banks, 6 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 6.7% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (10 of 150) Worse: 1.7x the typical town's 4.0%
- 8 bank branch closures announced since 2022 Worse: 4.4 per 100,000 people, 29% higher than the typical town's 3.4
- 30 public toilets on the map (October 2026) About the same: 1.6 per 10,000 people, about the same as the typical town's 1.6
- 16 public swimming pools open; 4 closed for good since 2010 Better: 0.9 per 10,000 people, 29% higher than the typical English town's 0.7
- 10 places on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.48am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 3.2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 3.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 79% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,632 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 7% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Hammersmith and Fulham council
- £1,520 Band D council tax (2026-27) Better: £872 less than the English average
- 13% of Hammersmith and Fulham council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 19% lower than England's 16%
- 20 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
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Hammersmith and Fulham 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.