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The 25 cities in Britain with the most single people

Evan BartlettNov 17, 2014 Ahead of the third series of its fly-on-the-wall documentary First Dates, Channel 4 has collated data from the last census to find the cities in the UK with the largest proportion of single people. While 34.7 per cent of British people are single (i.e. not married or registered in a civil partnership), the findings show that four cities in the UK turn out to have more singletons than those with a partner and, perhaps surprisingly, London doesn't even make the top 10...

1 Manchester 54 9 per cent

2 Oxford 53 8

3 Cambridge 52 6

4 Nottingham 51 3

5 Brighton and Hove 50 1

6 Liverpool 49 7

7 Glasgow 49 2

8 Bristol 47 0

9 Norwich 46 9

10 Belfast 46 6

11 Newcastle upon Tyne 46 5

12 Edinburgh 45 3

12 Southampton 45 3

14 Cardiff 45 0

15 London 44 1

16 Lincoln 44 0

17 Exeter 43 7

18 Portsmouth 43 5

19 Salford 43 4

20 Dundee 43 2

21 Reading 43 1

22 Aberdeen 42 7

23 Kingston upon Hull 42 1

24 Birmingham 41 6

24 Derry 41 6

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