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Takeaways by town: every English and Welsh town ranked

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated 18 September 2026 · FSA register

Skegness has 59 registered takeaways for 20,700 residents — 28.5 per 10,000, the highest density of any town over 20,000 people. The top of this table is a tour of the English seaside.

These counts use the town's built-up area, the boundary drawn from where the buildings actually are. That matters: the council-district version of this analysis mixes each town with its rural surroundings, which dilutes exactly the towns this table puts on top. Counts and populations here describe the same piece of ground.

Most takeaways per 10,000 residents

#	Town	Takeaways	Per 10,000	Residents
1	Skegness	59	28.5	20,700
2	Great Yarmouth	80	27.6	28,985
3	Cleethorpes	69	23.3	29,670
4	Preston	195	20.6	94,490
5	Blackpool	291	19.5	149,070
6	Rawtenstall	46	19.4	23,680
7	Hazel Grove	38	18.8	20,170
8	Ashington (Northumberland)	53	18.7	28,280
9	Rhyl	50	18.5	26,990
10	Scarborough	110	18.5	59,505
11	Bridlington	64	18.4	34,845
12	Chorley	71	18.0	39,535
13	Castleford	81	17.9	45,355
14	Accrington	62	17.8	34,895
15	Heywood	52	17.5	29,725
16	Huddersfield	242	17.1	141,675
17	Ashton-under-Lyne	83	17.1	48,600
18	Reddish	37	16.7	22,200
19	Bishop Auckland	38	16.3	23,355
20	Burnley	125	16.0	78,255
21	Brierley Hill	51	15.8	32,305
22	Darwen	44	15.8	27,900
23	Brighouse	52	15.7	33,160
24	Rochdale	172	15.5	111,255
25	Old Trafford	33	15.4	21,445
26	Oldbury (Sandwell)	69	15.3	45,180
27	Seaham	33	15.2	21,665
28	Port Talbot	48	15.2	31,555
29	Keighley	74	15.2	48,750
30	Leigh (Wigan)	69	15.2	45,495
31	Chesterfield	115	15.0	76,420
32	Bury	121	14.9	81,095
33	Goole	30	14.9	20,175
34	Felixstowe	36	14.9	24,220
35	Liverpool	746	14.7	506,565
36	Barnsley	105	14.7	71,405
37	Salford	159	14.7	108,410
38	Radcliffe	45	14.5	31,115
39	Denton (Tameside)	52	14.4	35,995
40	Manchester	679	14.4	470,405
41	Stockport	168	14.2	117,935
42	Sunderland	239	14.2	168,315
43	Maldon	33	14.1	23,380
44	Bradford	471	14.1	333,950
45	Redcar	53	14.1	37,660
46	Halifax	124	14.1	88,115
47	Ramsgate	59	14.0	42,030
48	Horwich	29	14.0	20,700
49	Swinton (Salford)	32	14.0	22,885
50	Darlington	130	14.0	93,015

Most pubs and bars per 10,000 residents

#	Town	Pubs and bars	Per 10,000	Residents
1	Skegness	42	20.3	20,700
2	Whitehaven	44	19.2	22,945
3	Durham	82	16.2	50,510
4	Bridlington	55	15.8	34,845
5	Great Yarmouth	45	15.5	28,985
6	Whitstable	49	15.2	32,195
7	Pontypridd	48	15.0	31,900
8	Seaham	32	14.8	21,665
9	Stourport-on-Severn	29	14.3	20,305
10	Stalybridge	38	14.2	26,830
11	Chesterfield	108	14.1	76,420
12	Cleethorpes	40	13.5	29,670
13	Retford	32	13.5	23,740
14	Scarborough	79	13.3	59,505
15	Aberdare	50	13.3	37,675
16	Deal	38	13.1	28,985
17	York	185	13.1	141,685
18	Barnsley	93	13.0	71,405
19	Brierley Hill	41	12.7	32,305
20	Shoreham-by-Sea	30	12.7	23,660
21	Ripley (Amber Valley)	25	12.4	20,180
22	Brighton and Hove	342	12.3	277,105
23	Spennymoor	25	12.2	20,410
24	Bishop Auckland	28	12.0	23,355
25	Barrow-in-Furness	66	11.9	55,255
26	Bingley	25	11.7	21,330
27	Consett	35	11.7	29,885
28	Shrewsbury	89	11.7	76,015
29	Lichfield	38	11.7	32,580
30	Herne Bay	29	11.7	24,870
31	Folkestone	60	11.5	51,995
32	Hartlepool	101	11.5	87,995
33	Buxton (High Peak)	23	11.5	20,050
34	Faversham	24	11.5	20,940
35	Ramsgate	48	11.4	42,030
36	Rawtenstall	27	11.4	23,680
37	Chorley	45	11.4	39,535
38	Merthyr Tydfil	45	11.4	39,535
39	Royton	26	11.3	22,990
40	Brighouse	37	11.2	33,160
41	Heanor	27	11.1	24,260
42	Rugeley	29	11.1	26,145
43	Newark-on-Trent	33	11.1	29,755
44	Stourbridge	63	11.1	56,950
45	Wakefield	108	11.0	97,870
46	Beverley	34	11.0	30,930
47	Shipley (Bradford)	32	10.9	29,225
48	Bath	103	10.9	94,080
49	Redcar	41	10.9	37,660
50	Ormskirk	30	10.8	27,715

Source: the FSA food hygiene register (premises classed Takeaway/sandwich shop and Pub/bar/nightclub), extracted 17 August 2026, joined to ONS built-up areas by postcode. England and Wales; towns of 20,000+ residents (census 2021). London's built-up areas carry no separate census populations, so London towns are absent from the per-10,000 columns rather than wrongly included. Scotland and Northern Ireland run separate registers and geographies.

Common questions

Which town in England has the most takeaways?

Skegness, with 59 registered takeaways for 20,700 residents: 28.5 per 10,000, the highest rate of any English or Welsh town over 20,000 people on the FSA register.

Which town has the most pubs per person?

Skegness, at 20.3 pubs and bars per 10,000 residents. Rural market towns dominate the pub table for a structural reason: villages need their own pub each, while dense urban boroughs share fewer, larger venues.

Where do these takeaway figures come from?

The Food Standards Agency's statutory register, which every food business must join by law, joined to ONS built-up areas by postcode. Counts and populations describe the same town boundary, which is what the council-district version of this analysis cannot do.