Crap Towns / Kent / Hawkinge
Hawkinge
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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agree it's crap have defended it
Drive to Folkestone.
The Spitfires flew from here. Now it's new houses and a drive to Folkestone for anything.
Hawkinge was a Battle of Britain airfield. Then they built houses all over the runway and that was that. Crime's low, nothing gets smashed and there's fuck all to do. Anything you actually want is in Folkestone, so you need the car for a pint of milk. Nice museum, mind.
It gets 1,874 hours of sunshine a year, which is a lot of sun to spend in a cul-de-sac. There are 2 pubs and no public pool, and every single person lives within 400 metres of a park or a swing. They put a playground on every corner and forgot to build a town.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Hawkinge's 76 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 76% of towns.
- Fly-tipping76/10016.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Folkestone and Hythe council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Broadband50/1002.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 19.8% across the Folkestone and Hythe council area
- Rain48/100127 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Air pollution36/1006.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene35/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 21 food businesses with a rating
- Anti-social behaviour32/10012.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson16/1004.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions13/1001.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires10/1002.0 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Hythe | 44 |
| 25 | Tonbridge | 43 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.26 | Royal Tunbridge Wells | 39 |
| 27 | Larkfield | 38 |
| 28 | Deal | 36 |
| 29 | Herne | 32 |
| 30 | Sevenoaks | 27 |
| – | Hawkinge | 13 |
| 31 | Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley | 10 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Hawkinge by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 43.1 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 43% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 4 problems reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 4.7 per 10,000 people, 77% lower than the typical town's 20.4
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs, 4 hairdressers on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.2 per 10,000 people, 25% lower than 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
- 11.50pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.5% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 3x the typical town's 0.5%
- 0.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: Against the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,874 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 22% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Folkestone and Hythe council
Have a crap-off
Hawkinge 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.