Do you live in the UK’s luckiest postcode for lottery wins? (Spoiler – it’s in Greater London)
People talk about postcode lotteries, but this is just ridiculous…
Camelot, the company behind the National Lottery, has unveiled the UK's 10 luckiest postcodes – and it turns out the nation's biggest winners reside within the M25.
According to the ranking, which shows wins of £50,000 or more per head of the population, the UK's luckiest people live in the RM postcode – that is, Romford.
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Meanwhile, those in the TS postcode, in Cleveland, were the next-biggest winners – followed by the WA postcode, aka Warrington.
| Postcode | Town | |
| 1 | RM | Romford |
| 2 | TS | Cleveland |
| 3 | WA | Warrington |
| 4 | L | Liverpool |
| 5 | IG | Ilford |
| 6 | ME | Medway |
| 7 | NP | Newport |
| 8 | NE | Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| 9 | WN | Wigan |
| 10 | HA | Harrow |
Meanwhile, Glasgow has the most million-pound wins – 21 in the past 24 months – while Leicester has had the most big prize winners (as opposed to most per head), with 63 – more than one a fortnight over the past two years.
Meanwhile, Birmingham has had the most winners since the National Lottery began, with 1,180 winners of prizes over £50,000. It also accounts for 127 of the 4,250 millionaires created by the Lottery.
If you live in Truro, you're also ahead of the game: since its launch, the Cornish city has had more big winners per head than anywhere else. That's followed by Paisley and Kilmarnock.
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