Crap Towns / Hampshire / Whitehill
Whitehill
17/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 17. Higher scores are crapper.
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Whitehill, still waiting.
Heathland, an old army camp, a lot of new houses, and a town centre that never turned up.
Whitehill sits next to Bordon on old army land, with Woolmer Forest on the doorstep. They built loads of houses and promised a shared town centre to go with them. Still coming.
Meanwhile there's 1 pub, no public park, no pool, and the last bus goes at 10.03pm. And 4.6% of homes and businesses are stuck without superfast, over nine times the typical town's share. Nobody nicks anything from the shops. Not much to nick. Nice heath, mind. Very nice heath. Sod all else.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Whitehill's 94 for broadband means it's crapper than 94% of towns.
- Broadband94/10020.8% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 26.2% across the East Hampshire council area
- Food hygiene66/100
- Serious road collisions52/1002.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Rain45/100125 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
- Deliberate fires33/1004.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution24/1006.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Criminal damage and arson6/1003.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour0/1004.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Aldershot | 23 |
| 12 | Tadley | 22 |
| 13 | Fareham | 20 |
| 14 | Lymington | 18 |
| – | Whitehill | 17 |
| 15 | Emsworth | 17 |
| 16 | Waterlooville | 14 |
| 17 | Fleet | 14 |
| 18 | Yateley | 12 |
Whitehill by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 33.7 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 56% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 13 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 25.1 per 10,000 people, 7.4x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
- 1 place on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 10.03pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 4.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 9.2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 23.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 49% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,630 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
Whitehill 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.