With over 6,800 millionaires made since launch and £90BN in prize money paid out to lucky players, The National Lottery today reveals the lucky winning hotspots across the UK. Are you living in the country’s luckiest location and could it be you next?
Birmingham tops the lot when it comes to millionaire-making since The National Lottery began. The statistics, which include both publicity and non-publicity winners, reveal that England’s second city is in fact first for National Lottery millionaires with a whopping 205 made in the Birmingham area. Belfast comes in second place with 174, followed by Glasgow with 158.
It would appear that luck could actually live in the north, judging by the fact that Sheffield is in fourth place with 150 followed by Newcastle and Liverpool, each with 136, before Manchester places sixth with 133. Cardiff follows with 126 then Peterborough in eighth with 119. Coventry, Leicester and Nottingham claim equal ninth with 102 National Lottery millionaires each and Doncaster completes the top 10 with 96.
