BRITAIN’S luckiest cities where you are most likely to scoop a big lottery win have been revealed.
Everyone needs a bit of luck even if it’s just crossing your fingers or keeping a sharp lookout for a four-leaf clover.
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While luck may very well be random it would appear that where you live could have a sizeable impact on your good fortune.
The number-crunchers at online entertainment company casinos.win have revealed the luckiest postcodes to in the UK.
Using the National Lottery results since 2011 they analysed the winner postcodes and looked at the number of wins within an area along with the number of postcodes in the region.
Analysis of the data has shown that the Outer Hebrides postcode area is the luckiest place in the UK when it comes to winning the postcode lottery.
The HS postcode area covers places such as Stornoway, Isle of Lewis and the Isle of Harris.
With a total of 35 wins and 973 postcodes in the area, your chance of winning the people’s postcode lottery was higher here than anywhere else in the country.
The second luckiest postcode area in the UK was in Lancashire, specifically Blackpool.
The FY postcode area has 7,381 postcodes and 223 lottery wins.
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Winners from the area include Susan and her husband Joe who won a £30,000 street prize in 2020.
Sunderland is officially the third luckiest place to live if you want to win the people’s postcode lottery.
With 199 wins and 6,714 postcodes in the area.
The SR postcode covers areas such as Ashbrooke, Hendon, Barnes, Carley Hill and more.
Winners from Sunderland include council worker Helen Jewitt who one £12,500 in 2009 a day before her birthday.
The council worker planned on using the money towards her wedding and dream honeymoon in Thailand.
Top 10 luckiest postcode areas
HS (Outer Hebrides)
FY (Blackpool)
SR (Sunderland)
IV (Inverness)
ML (Motherwell)
PH (Perth)
TF (Telford)
PR (Preston)
KA (Kilmarnock)
NP (Newport)
For more luck, it’s back up to Scotland for the fourth and fifth luckiest places to live, with Inverness and Motherwell.
Inverness has seen 220 winners with 7,474 postcodes and Motherwell has 286 winners and 9,765 postcodes.
Notable winners in Inverness include the 21 residents in Millerton Avenue who all won £1,000 each when their IV3 8RY postcode came up in the draw.
Whereas a group of neighbours in Motherwell shared £320,000 between them when their ML1 3JP postcode was selected in 2014.
Unluckiest postcode areas
EC (East Central London)
LD (Llandrindod Wells)
W (West London)
AL (St Albans)
NW (North West London)
TR (Truro)
KT (Kingston upon Thames)
SW (South West London)
N (North London)
E (East London)
With Scotland and England making up the majority of the luckiest places to live in the top 10 results, Welsh town Newport snuck in at the very bottom of tenth place with 392 wins but 13,840 postcodes which brought the chances of winning down compared to the other winning towns and cities.
Swansea came in at position 11 with 655 wins, but with 23,288 postcodes within the Swansea area, residents in the area were far less likely to win.
Cardiff also suffered a similar fate with 650 wins and 23,342 postcodes, making it the 14th luckiest postcode area to live within.
Six of the unluckiest areas for wins came from London and while people in London still won the postcode lottery many times, the sheer number of postcodes in the area meant that statistically, you were far less likely to win if you lived here than other places in the country.
A spokesperson from casinos.win said: “It’s interesting to see the places in the country that have won the most times but the best part about this study was reading the winner’s stories.”
“Every day people like you and I were using their winnings to improve their lives whether that would be to pay off the remainder of their mortgage or to take their families on dream holidays.
“There were some lovely stories in there.”
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