For more than six decades, Coronation Street's dramatic storylines have kept viewers on edge, with everything from affairs to tram crashes happening in the town of Weatherfield. Although it may be small, Weatherfield certainly is not sleepy, as it has a shocking crime rate.
Despite a pandemic taking hold of the world in the last couple of years, and there being more Zoom calls than pub bust-ups on the soap, 2021 was a year of trouble for Coronation Street. With a total of 55 'incidents' and eight deaths in 2021, Weatherfield apparently has a murder rate of 9.3 per cent compared to the 0.001 per cent real-life national average.
A new study, orchestrated by SimpliSafe, analysed the storylines, cast and events of the UK's four major soaps - Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Eastenders and Hollyoaks, as well as historical data since they were first broadcast, to unveil the most dangerous town in the land of the soaps. And, according to the results, Coronation Street's Weatherfield is 9,200 times more dangerous than the average UK town.
