Manchester's most adulterous places named - and the town where spouses should keep a close eye on other halves
22.03.2022 - 21:33
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
An ‘index of infidelity’ has highlighted the UK’s most adulterous towns - and one particular spot in Greater Manchester has come out on top of the entire list.
Illicit Encounters - an online dating site for married men and women - says that 20,000 people use its services to cheat on their partner every week. New figures released by the site this week have identified that people in Altrincham are more likely to cheat on their partner than residents in any other town in Britain.
Using member's location data against each town’s adult population, the site has compiled a list of the most adulterous places in the country. Illicit Encounters says that 2,994 people in Altrincham alone are members - working out as 5.71% of the town's population, or around one in 18.
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After Altrincham, Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire has the highest ratio of adulterers (5.48% of the population). Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire (5.43%), Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire (4.54%), and Motherwell in Scotland (4.45%) round up the top five of the UK’s most adulterous towns.
Swinton was the second most adulterous town in Greater Manchester on the list, with 665 members accounting for 2.62% of the town's population. Rounding out the rest of the top five in the city-region were Stretford with 533 members (1.99%), Denton with 688 members (1.88%) and Middleton with 762 members (1.77%).
Illicit Encounters also mapped out the cities with the highest proportion of cheaters. At city level, people are most likely to have an affair in Bath, where a total of 8,310 people are members.
According to the statistics, Chester has the second highest