Crap Towns / Hampshire / Horndean
Horndean
3/100Crap Score
955th crappest of 984 towns, and 29th in Hampshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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Horndean. Nothing happens.
A big brick brewery tower, a lot of new houses, and a row about an Aldi.
Horndean's best building is an old brewery tower that doesn't brew any more. The rest is new houses, more new houses, and schools and doctors that are full. The big local drama is a row about an Aldi. An Aldi. That's the drama. Crime's low.
The library shut in 2020 and there's no public pool, but the buses are brilliant, with 41% more on a Sunday than the typical town. Horndean is very well set up for going somewhere else.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Horndean's 72 for broadband means it's crapper than 72% of towns.
- Broadband72/1004.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 26.2% across the East Hampshire council area
- Rain54/100130 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping45/10010.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, East Hampshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution38/1007.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions25/1001.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires23/1003.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Food hygiene9/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 81 food businesses with a rating
- Sewage spills9/1006.2 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2024 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson7/1003.7 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 |
Horndean by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 46.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 39% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 99 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 29.1 per 10,000 people, 8.6x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2020
What's left on the high street
- 6 pubs, 17 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 2 bookmakers, 1 vape shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 17) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 library shut for good since 2010: Horndean (2020)
- 4 public toilets 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
- 12.24am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.4% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 20% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 36.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.3x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,617 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 6% higher than the typical town's 1,532
East Hampshire council
- £2,344 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £48 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%
- 4 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Horndean 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.