The cities with the most millionaire lottery winners have been revealed by the National Lottery
Britain’s luckiest places with the most National Lottery winners have been revealed.
New data published by the National Lottery shows the places where the most millionaires have been made since its launch in 1994.
Birmingham tops the list with 234 millionaires, followed by Belfast with 202, and Glasgow with 178. Manchester has also had a recent string of winners, topping the ranking of cities over the last three years, with 30 millionaires.
The top 10 cities since the lottery’s launch are spread out across the country, with the northern cities of Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle taking the next three spots.
These are followed by Cardiff, Peterborough, and Leicester, which has had 127 winners since 1994.
Over the last three years, the luckiest cities are a little different, with Liverpool closely following Manchester’s lead, and Birmingham coming in third. Belfast, Portsmouth, Leicester, Glasgow, Nottingham, Peterborough, and Swansea make up the rest of the top 10.
But it is Scotland’s Motherwell which has the highest number of millionaires per head of adult population since the launch, with one in 4,156 winning. This was followed by Watford with one in 4,309, and Liverpool with one in 4,410.
The National Lottery said its findings show winner’s luck is not concentrated in any one region, with towns and cities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all featuring prominently in the rankings.
Kathy Garrett, winners’ experience lead at Allwyn, the operator of the National Lottery, said: “One of the things we love most about the National Lottery is seeing luck turn up in every corner of the UK.
“From big cities to small towns, we’ve celebrated thousands of life-changing wins over the years, and these figures show that there is no single postcode for luck. More than 8,000 people have become millionaires since launch, and every draw creates the possibility that the next big winner could come from anywhere”.
It comes after a UK winner claimed a £111,709,000 EuroMillions jackpot last month in the equal 14th-largest prize ever secured in the UK. The winner is the fourth UK player to claim a EuroMillions jackpot this year. In March, one ticket secured £181 million – the third-largest in UK history – before two UK winners shared a £125 million jackpot with a French player in April.
The UK record stands at £195.7 million, which was won in July 2022 by a ticket-holder who chose to remain anonymous.
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