An “index of infidelity” has revealed the places in the UK where married men and women are most likely to cheat on their partners. According to Illicit Encounters - an online dating site for married men and women - 20,000 people use its services to cheat on their partners every week.
Now, figures have revealed that people in Bath are more likely to cheat on their partner than residents of any other city in Britain. A total of 8,310 people in the Somerset city are members. That works out as 6.89% of the population, or around one in 15 - which is the highest proportion of people using the cheating site of any city in the UK.
Illicit Encounters mapped the location data of each of their members against each city’s adult population to find the most adulterous places in the country. The site’s Infidelity Index shows that after Bath, people are most likely to cheat on their partners in Chester, which is home to 8,606 members (6.88% of the city’s population).
Chester is followed by Brighton and Hove, where 6.87% of the population are members, then Nottingham (6.86%) and Lichfield (6.83%). Illicit Encounters also maps the towns with the highest proportion of cheaters.
At a town level, people are most likely to have an affair in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, where a total of 2,994 people are Illicit Encounters members - 5.71% of the population, or about one in 18. After Altrincham, Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire has the highest ratio of adulterers (5.48% of the population), then Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire (5.43%), Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire (4.54%), and Motherwell in Scotland (4.45%).
The figures are revealed after Only Fans model Amy Kupps - who says she only dates married men and receives up to £40,000 in gifts from her lovers each month - shared her secrets of how to catch a cheating spouse. The 32-year-old former teacher, who says “you only have yourself to blame” if your partner is cheating, warned people to be on the lookout for signs including a hidden work phone or a new credit card.
She said the first lie a cheater will tell their partner is that they’re “meeting up with a friend for a quick drink”. She said: “They’ll tell their wives not to wait up all night waiting for them.”
According to Illicit Encounters, 20,000 people cheat on their partners using the site every week. Since it launched almost 20 years ago, Illicit Encounters says more than 1.1 million people across the UK have signed up to meet someone to have “the occasional bit of flirtatious chat, a regular coffee date, or a full-blown affair”.
It says it provides a meeting place for “like-minded married and attached people” who are “all looking for a little romance outside their current relationship”. You can find the local ''adultery figures'' for your postcode using their Infidelity Index - https://www.illicitencounters.com/map/standalone - which is based on data from one million postcodes.
CITIES
Rank // City // wider area // Percentage of city population // Number of affairs
1 // Bath // 6.89 // 8,310
2 // Chester // 6.88 // 8,606
3 // Brighton and Hove // 6.87 // 16,973
4 // Nottingham // 6.86 // 28,719
5 // Lichfield // 6.83 // 2,574
6 // Newcastle upon Tyne // 6.82 // 13,623
7 // Portsmouth // 6.81 // 17,695
8 // Derby // 6.8 // 17,776
9 // Worcester // 6.76 // 7,133
10 // Carlisle // 6.72 // 5,416
TOWNS
Rank // Town // wider area // Percentage of city population // Number of affairs
1 // Altrincham // Greater Manchester // 5.71 // 2,994
2 // Beaconsfield // Buckinghamshire // 5.48 // 662
3 // Stratford-upon-Avon // Warwickshire // 5.43 // 1,510
4 // Henley-on-Thames // Oxfordshire // 4.54 // 539
5 // Motherwell // North Lanarkshire // 4.45 // 1,421
6 // Beverley // East Riding of Yorkshire // 4.36 // 1,335
7 // Evesham // Worcestershire // 4.22 // 994
8 // Bishop's Stortford // Hertfordshire // 4.13 // 1,561
9 // Coleraine // Coleraine // 4.04 // 995
10 // Frome // Somerset // 4.02 // 1,054
