The inhabitants of the UK elevated by roughly 50 p.c over the previous 100 years - to 67 million immediately.

Crammed onto a somewhat small island, this makes it the thirty fourth most densely populated nation on this planet, with 720 individuals per sq. mile.

Despite this, these touring the British Isles are more likely to notice seemingly undisturbed pure expanses in Snowdonia, the Yorkshire Dales or the Scottish Highlands.

This underlies the truth that some 84 p.c of Brits reside in city areas – starting from garden-lined suburbs to high-rise metropolis centres – leaving swathes of the countryside inexperienced.

But simply how tightly packed is your neighbourhood? Check Express.co.uk’s map beneath.

Data from Census 2021 reveals that some corners of England and Wales are as closely populated as a soccer pitch with 15 groups dealing with off on the identical time.

In the prosperous Westminster group of Maida Hill – named after a former pub honouring the British victory on the Battle of Maida in Italy in the course of the Napoleonic Wars – the equal of 61,831 individuals stay on every sq. mile of land – greater than anyplace else within the nation.

To put that in perspective, that is about as a lot as Calcutta, India, the second-most densely populated metropolis on the planet.

Or to take a look at it one other approach, that is the identical as 170 individuals dwelling cheek-by-jowl on a patch of land the identical measurement as a soccer pitch.

Residents of close by Church Street probably discover it simply as cramped, with 61,621 individuals per sq. mile, adopted by Aldgate in Tower Hamlets with 60,624.

As may very well be anticipated, the highest 37 most dense neighbourhoods are in London, with the Hanover quarter of Brighton the primary entry exterior of the capital with 49,547 individuals per sq. mile.

At the opposite finish of the spectrum, solely 14 individuals stay on every mile of land in rural Bellingham, Otterburn & Redesdale, within the North East, throughout the Northumberland National Park.

That is the equal of 1 particular person dwelling alone on a patch of land the identical measurement as 26 soccer pitches.