UK’s top 10 luckiest cities revealed where millionaires have been made

Do you live in the luckiest city in the UK? (Picture: Metro graphics)

The luckiest cities to live in the UK have been revealed where the most millionaires have been made thanks to winning Lotto jackpots.

Birmingham has been given the top spot as out of the 6,800 millionaires made since the Lotto launched in 1994, 205 are from the area.

It is streets ahead of the 174 from second-luckiest Belfast and 158 in third-placed Glasgow.

Watford has the highest number of lotto millionaires per head of adult population with 1 in 4,878 people enjoying seven-figure wins.

Mum-of-two Celeste Coles, 69, from Birmingham, won £3,665,079.10 on July 12 last year, after buying a last-minute ticket.

The retired teacher, who was born in Barbados, got herself a ticket via The National Lottery App just moments before sales closed ahead of the draw.

She knew she was in for a ‘big win’ when she realised she had matched five main numbers plus one Lucky Star.

Birmingham-based lottery winner Celeste Coles (R), who won £3.6 million in 2022 (Picture: PA)

At a special event to toast Birmingham as the UK’s luckiest city, she said: ‘It’s been an amazing year, winning the lottery is truly life-changing.

‘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.

‘Something which would never have happened without the win.

‘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.’

Northerners appear to be luckier than southerners with fourth place Sheffield having 150 lotto millionaires.

Newcastle and Liverpool come in joint fifth place with 136 millionaires each, beating Manchester who have 133.

Cardiff is seventh with 126 while Peterborough came in eighth with 119.

Midlanders came joint ninth with Coventry, Leicester and Nottingham all with 102 big money winners.

Tenth in the lotto league table is Doncaster with 96 newly rich residents.

The south has enjoyed its own luck, with Guildford and South East London adding 20 new millionaires to their totals over the last three years.

Between last April and March this year, a whopping 383 millionaires were made – an average of more than one a day.

Figures reveal that millionaires made per head of adult population puts Watford, Motherwell and Romford joint first with one mega lotto winner for less than 5,000 adults.

The top ten also features St Albans, Hull, Harrow and Durham.

For prizes of more than £50,000 across all lotto games, including instant wins and scratchcards, Romford has had the most winners per head of population.

One in every 755 players in the Essex town has banked a big prize.

The tiny Scottish town of Galashiels is second with one in every 864 adults enjoying a bumper payout.

Cleveland comes third with one in every 875 residents winning big.

Medway, Newport, Bromley and Sunderland have also made it into top ten for £50,000 winners.

Kathy Garrett, Winners Experience Lead at The National Lottery said: ‘ It is wonderful to witness the incredible difference a big win can make to the lives of a winner and the people they care about.

‘We travel to every corner of the country paying out big winners so I know there is luck in every corner of the UK and just having a ticket means it could be you next.’

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It is streets ahead of the 174 from second-luckiest Belfast and 158 in third-placed Glasgow.