Crap Towns / Hampshire / Yateley
Yateley
12/100Crap Score
863rd crappest of 984 towns, and 18th in Hampshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Drive. There's no other way.
Heathland, village greens and precious little worth getting excited about.
Yateley is green, leafy and pleased with itself, with a big common and village greens all over. Crime's under half the typical town's. They built a wartime airfield on the common, but nobody's managed a railway station since, and the buses don't go anywhere useful, so everyone drives.
The shops sell milk and not much else. Somebody keeps dumping rubbish on all that lovely green, too: fly-tipping across Hart runs above the typical council's rate. Otherwise it's annoyingly fine.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Yateley's 64 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 64% of towns.
- Fly-tipping64/10013.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Hart council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution46/1007.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Deliberate fires42/1005.5 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Sewage spills35/100131 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Broadband33/1002.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 13.1% across the Hart council area
- Rain29/100120 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Criminal damage and arson26/1005.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene23/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 43 food businesses with a rating
- Anti-social behaviour19/10010.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions12/1001.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | Lymington | 18 |
| 15 | Emsworth | 17 |
| 16 | Waterlooville | 14 |
| 17 | Fleet | 14 |
| 18 | Yateley | 12 |
| 19 | Andover | 11 |
| 20 | Winchester | 11 |
| 21 | Romsey | 11 |
| 22 | Farnborough | 10 |
Yateley by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 35.9 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 53% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 125 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 85.1 per 10,000 people, 25x the typical town's 3.4
- 4 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 9 hairdressers, 1 charity shop, 1 bookmaker, 1 Greggs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.4 per 10,000 people, 13% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 2 public swimming pools open Better: 1.4 per 10,000 people, 2x the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.10pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.4% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 20% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 17.4% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 12% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,635 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 7% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Hart council
- £2,400 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £8 more 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%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Yateley 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.