Crap Towns / Hampshire / Netley
Netley
40/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 40. Higher scores are crapper.
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Lovely view. Shame about the water.
Netley has a grand country park beside Southampton Water. The sewage rather spoils the effect.
Netley's got Royal Victoria Country Park, where the giant army hospital used to be, a castle and a view across Southampton Water. Then the school run turns up and parks on every pavement and verge going, so you walk in the road.
The view's the selling point, which makes it a shame about the water. The storm overflows nearby spilled for 3.6 times as long as the typical town's. There are 1,711 hours of sun a year to look at it in. Lovely view, mind.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Netley's 83 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 83% of towns.
- Sewage spills83/100983 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2024 to 2025
- Broadband62/10010.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 9.7% across the Eastleigh council area
- Serious road collisions57/1002.7 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour56/10016.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution43/1008.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Rain40/100124 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Deliberate fires38/1004.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson32/1005.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene31/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 27 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping11/1004.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Eastleigh council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southampton | 79 |
| 2 | Havant | 45 |
| 3 | Portsmouth | 44 |
| 4 | Ringwood | 41 |
| – | Netley | 40 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.5 | Basingstoke | 38 |
| 6 | New Milton | 32 |
| 7 | Eastleigh | 29 |
| 8 | Gosport | 28 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Netley by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 56.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 26% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 15 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 23.8 per 10,000 people, 7x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs, 2 hairdressers on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 3.2 per 10,000 people, 2x 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
- 12.20am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 20% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 0.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Better: Against the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,711 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 12% 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
Netley 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.