Fifty worst places to live in UK revealed – read the full list of crap towns and cities

On Feb 8, 2023

Luton has been named the worst place to live in the UK.

A list of the top 50 crappiest places to live has been complied by I Live Here, using audience surveys and voting.

And the town mainly known for hat-making, having an average Championship side and a rather large Vauxhall Motors factory, has topped the list.

Coming in second was Peterborough, closely followed by Portsmouth – a town most associated with a terrible football ground, the Royal Navy and being the most densely populated city in the UK.

Coming in fourth place is Slough – which is somewhere most people just tend to pass through when travelling by train to London – with Aylesbury and Aldershot in fifth and sixth place, respectively.

Portsmouth is home to the Royal Navy, and an awful football ground – but a nice beach
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Andover finds itself in seventh, while Swindon – where people are known as Swindonians – ranks eighth.

The grim top 10 is completed by Bournemouth in ninth and oft-slated Bradford in 10th.

Other key places on the list are Liverpool (16th), which will host Eurovision later this year, and Manchester (43rd), despite Gary Neville’s best efforts to turn it into skyscraper heaven.

The full list is below, and let us know if you live in any of these places and have anything nice to say about them by email [email protected]:

1. Luton

2. Peterborough

3. Portsmouth

4. Slough

5. Aylesbury

6. Aldershot

7. Andover

8. Swindon

9. Bournemouth

10. Bradford

11. High Wycombe

12. Reading

13. Henley-on-Thames

Bournemouth looks kind of nice, but apparently it’s not
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14. Birmingham

15. Kensington and Chelsea

16. Liverpool

17. Coventry

18. Oxford

19. Croydon

20. Cheshunt

21. Reading

Avoid Swindon at all costs
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22. Southampton

23. Blackpool

24. Crawley

25. Middlesbrough

26. Plymouth

27. Sunderland

28. Stoke-on-Trent

29. Barking and Dagenham

30. Grimsby

31. Abingdon

32. Poole

33. Wolverhampton

34. Bolton

Gary Neville has re-built most of Manchester, but it still ranks highly on the list of top 50 crap places to live
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35. Milton Keynes

36. Boston

37. Wisbech

38. Harlow

39. Chatham

40. Hounslow

41. York

42. Stevenage

43. Manchester

44. Wigan

45. Doncaster

46. Jaywick

47. Canterbury

48. Hull

49. Ipswich

50. Northampton

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