Crap Towns / Surrey / Reigate
Reigate
67/100Crap Score
329th crappest of 984 towns, and 9th in Surrey. Higher scores are crapper.
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Reigate. Brunch and lorry fumes.
Posh brunch places and cockapoos, with lorries belting through to the motorway.
Reigate is all brunch places, yoghurt bars and cockapoos, and it looks down its nose at Redhill. Meanwhile the High Street is a rat run to the motorway, so you eat your avocado in lorry fumes. You can get brunch anywhere but you can't buy a lightbulb. There are caves underneath. Hide in them.
There are 25 hairdressers and 1 bank, so you can get your hair done but not your money out. Nearly 40% of people live more than 400 metres from the nearest park or playground. And somebody keeps dumping old sofas round the council area, at nearly three times the typical council's rate. It'll be people from Redhill, obviously.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Reigate's 92 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 92% of towns.
- Fly-tipping92/10032.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Reigate and Banstead council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions84/1003.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Broadband75/10012.8% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 12.0% across the Reigate and Banstead council area
- Air pollution72/1009.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene64/1003.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 150 food businesses with a rating
- Sewage spills57/100366 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain46/100126 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour17/1009.7 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
- Deliberate fires13/100
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Byfleet | 78 |
| 6 | Chertsey | 72 |
| 7 | Addlestone | 67 |
| 8 | Egham | 67 |
| 9 | Reigate | 67 |
| 10 | Woking | 60 |
| 11 | Walton-on-Thames | 59 |
| 12 | Oxted | 57 |
| 13 | Weybridge | 55 |
Reigate by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 49.9 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 35% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1,273 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 535 per 10,000 people, 157.4x the typical town's 3.4
- 3 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 13 pubs, 25 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 2 vape shops, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 15) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 bank branch closure announced since 2022 Worse: 4.2 per 100,000 people, 24% higher than the typical town's 3.4
- 9 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 3.8 per 10,000 people, 2.4x the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Worse: 0.4 per 10,000 people, 43% lower than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.43am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than 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%
- 39.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.6x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,636 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 7% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Reigate and Banstead council
Have a crap-off
Reigate 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.