Crap Towns / Hampshire / Yateley

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Yateley

Nice common. Long walk home.
Twinned with a common with no station

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
Your patch: HampshireTowns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
PosTownNationalScore
14Lymington808th18
15Emsworth818th17
16Waterlooville845th14
17Fleet849th14
18Yateley863rd12
19Andover873rd11
20Winchester874th11
21Romsey875th11
22Farnborough884th10

Yateley by numbers

Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.

Crime, muck and dodgy water

What's left on the high street

Getting about, getting online, getting rained on

Hart council

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Yateley against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.

YateleyCrap Score 12
v
BlackwaterCrap Score 8

Ten ingredients. One verdict. Who's crapper? The higher Crap Score takes it.