Interactive map reveals UK’s luckiest cities with HUNDREDS of secret lotto millionaires – how does your area fare?

AN interactive map has revealed the UK’s luckiest cities which are home to hundreds of secret National Lottery millionaires.

Since Noel Edmonds presented the first draw on November 19, 1994, a total of £90billion has been paid out in prize money.

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Analysis of more than 6,800 Lotto millionaires created since then shows that 205 of them hail from England’s second largest city, Birmingham, making it the luckiest place in the country.

Belfast is the second luckiest city with a total of 174 millionaires while Glasgow is third with 158 millionaires and Sheffield is fourth with 150.

Coming in joint fifth place were Newcastle and Liverpool with a total of 136 millionaires each.

Manchester placed sixth with 133 millionaires, followed by Cardiff with 126 and Peterborough with 119.

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Coventry, Leicester and Nottingham were equal ninth with 102 millionaires each and Doncaster placed 10th with 96.

One of Birmingham’s big winners is Celeste Coles, who bagged a huge £3.6m in July 2022.

She wished her fellow Brummies even more good luck in the coming years.

Celeste said: “It’s been an amazing year – winning the lottery is truly life-changing.

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“I have been able to treat my family and buy a holiday home in Spain which will mean we can all create more memorable moments together.

“Congratulations to all the Brummie winners so far, hoping for lots more in the future.

“I’ve always known we are a lucky city, and everyone should remember that it could be you, as long as you have a ticket in your pocket.”

In terms of millionaires per head of adult population, the luckiest hot spots in the UK are Watford, Motherwell and Romford.

In all three places a millionaire was made for less than every 5,000 adults.

Also featured in the per capita top ten are St Albans, Hull, Harrow and Durham.

A lucky win doesn’t have to mean pocketing a seven figure sum.

More than 43,000 prizes of £50,000 or more have been won by National Lottery players since the first draw.

Dividing these wins by the adult population in towns and cities across the UK shows that luck lives in every corner of the UK.

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Romford in Essex tops the list with  one in every 755 adults pocketing a big prize.

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Galashiels in the Scottish Borders is second with one in every 864 adults, followed by Cleveland in Yorkshire with 1 in every 875 residents winning a life-changing sum.

Also featured in this top ten are Medway, Newport, Bromley and Sunderland.

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