UK: Gambling sites concentrated in poorer areas, study finds
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The UK’s most deprived areas have more than ten times the number of betting shops than the most affluent parts of the country, new research shows.
A full 21% of gambling premises are found in the bottom tenth of the country, measured by deprivation.
Meanwhile, only 2% of the sites are in the top 10% of the least deprived areas, research from the University of Bristol, backed by the Standard Life Foundation, shows.
Although the number has been declining in recent years, there were still more gambling sites in Britain than shops run by the big eight supermarket chains put together, the researchers said.
