Yorkshire has the lowest ratio of bank branches to people of anywhere in the UK after a wave of closures that has left many places without a single outlet, research has found.
The Yorkshire and the Humber region now has 248 branches left to serve a population of 5.6 million people, according to consumer group Which? That equates to 4.4 branches for each 100,000 people, “leaving every Yorkshire resident sharing their branch with 22,557 others”.
