Crap Towns / Berkshire / Sandhurst
Sandhurst
1/100Crap Score
972nd crappest of 984 towns, and 12th in Berkshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Very tidy. Very slow trains.
Home of the army officer school. Very tidy, very quiet, and the trains to London are rubbish.
Sandhurst is where the army trains its officers, and the rest of the town is as neat as you'd expect. Crime's well under half the typical town's, the vandals barely bother and nobody crashes their car. There's Memorial Park and the bluebells at Ambarrow Court, and that's your weekend sorted.
The only real moan is that getting to London by train means changing and losing the will to live. And superfast doesn't reach 3% of premises, six times the typical town's share, so working from home's out too. You'll just have to stand there looking tidy.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Sandhurst's 56 for air pollution means it's crapper than 56% of towns.
- Air pollution56/1008.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Food hygiene38/1001.6% rated 0 to 2, of the 63 food businesses with a rating
- Sewage spills30/10094.8 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour28/1007.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires26/100
- Broadband20/1005.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 2.8% across the Bracknell Forest council area
- Rain15/100115 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping10/1004.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Bracknell Forest council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Criminal damage and arson4/1003.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions3/1000.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Windsor | 21 |
| 6 | Thatcham | 17 |
| 7 | Bracknell | 7 |
| 8 | Maidenhead | 6 |
| 9 | Wokingham | 5 |
| 10 | Caversham | 3 |
| 11 | Crowthorne | 2 |
| 12 | Sandhurst | 1 |
| 13 | Woodley | 1 |
Sandhurst by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 30.5 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 60% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 40 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 19.8 per 10,000 people, 5.8x 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
- 6 pubs, 7 hairdressers, 5 charity shops, 2 bookmakers, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 13) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 5 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 2.5 per 10,000 people, 1.6x the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open Worse: 0.5 per 10,000 people, 29% lower than the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.32pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 3.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 6x the typical town's 0.5%
- 19.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 24% higher 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
Bracknell Forest council
- £2,265 Band D council tax (2026-27) Better: £127 less than the English average
- 16% of Bracknell Forest council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) About the same: About the same as England's 16%
- 10 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Sandhurst 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.