Crap Towns / Buckinghamshire / Winslow
Winslow
16/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 16. Higher scores are crapper.
Have your say
Crap Town of the Year 2026/27
See the raceThe public vote. It's separate from the Crap Score, and it closes on 31 December 2027.
Letters from the locals
Got something to say about Winslow? Write in.
agree it's crap have defended it
Very nice. Irritating.
A grand Hall and a lovely Market Square. The sewage spills are less respectable.
Winslow has a grand Hall, a pretty Market Square, an agricultural show and a beer festival, and nothing much goes wrong. Irritating. The moans are lorries belting down the High Street, people speeding on Sheep Street and a road surface falling apart.
And the sewage. The storm overflows round Winslow went off for nearly six times the typical town's hours. Buckinghamshire council had 69 complaints upheld by the ombudsman in a year, so complaining gets you somewhere, at least. There's no public pool. Probably for the best.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Winslow's 91 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 91% of towns.
- Sewage spills91/1001,604 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Food hygiene56/1003.9% rated 0 to 2, of the 26 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband56/1004.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 18.0% across the Buckinghamshire council area
- Air pollution34/1006.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Rain32/100121 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Fly-tipping27/1007.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Buckinghamshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Criminal damage and arson18/1004.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires17/1002.6 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Anti-social behaviour13/1005.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions10/1000.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Chesham | 39 |
| 4 | Milton Keynes | 36 |
| 5 | Amersham | 34 |
| 6 | Newport Pagnell | 19 |
| – | Winslow | 16 |
| 7 | Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green | 13 |
| 8 | Aylesbury | 10 |
| 9 | Buckingham | 8 |
| 10 | Marlow | 6 |
Winslow by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 53.1 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 30% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 129 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 246 per 10,000 people, 72.4x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2022
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 1 hairdresser, 1 charity shop, 1 bank on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Better: 1.9 per 10,000 people, 19% higher than 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
- 11.38pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 80% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 26.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 1.7x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,555 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Buckinghamshire council
Have a crap-off
Winslow 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.