Crap Towns / Berkshire / Winnersh
Winnersh
3/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 3. Higher scores are crapper.
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Come and see the spoons.
Winnersh has a crossroads, a business park and a display of homemade spoons. That's the tour.
Winnersh is a crossroads outside Reading with a business park called the Triangle and a display of homemade spoons people call Spoonyville. Crime's low, nothing gets set on fire, and it's very tidy. The only excitement is the crossroads, where drivers jam up, ignore the no right turn signs and argue about the exit from Sainsbury's.
There's 1 pub, 5 hairdressers and a vape shop, and the air's dirtier than the typical town's. People call the business park the Winnersh Triangle, because folk go in and never come out. Then there's the spoons.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Winnersh's 83 for air pollution means it's crapper than 83% of towns.
- Air pollution83/10010.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Fly-tipping42/1009.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Wokingham council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions31/1001.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene25/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 39 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband22/1003.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.2% across the Wokingham council area
- Deliberate fires19/100
- Rain10/100114 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour10/1005.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson7/1003.7 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
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Thatcham | 17 |
| 7 | Bracknell | 7 |
| 8 | Maidenhead | 6 |
| 9 | Wokingham | 5 |
| 10 | Caversham | 3 |
| – | Winnersh | 3 |
| 11 | Crowthorne | 2 |
| 12 | Sandhurst | 1 |
| 13 | Woodley | 1 |
Winnersh by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 42.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 45% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 6 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 6.7 per 10,000 people, 2x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub, 5 hairdressers, 1 vape shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 2 public swimming pools open Better: 2.2 per 10,000 people, 3.1x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.41pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- Under 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Far lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 14.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 5% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,601 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Wokingham council
- £2,498 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £106 more than the English average
- 20% of Wokingham council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 25% higher than England's 16%
- 15 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Winnersh 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.