November 2026 release · scrape window 30 Oct - 3 Nov 2026

Where gambling is growing in the UK

2,247 gambling branded outlets across 2 brands are tracked in the UK in the November 2026 release. Liverpool has the most, with 68, or 1.3 per 10,000 residents; the top 25 local areas together hold 663 (30% of outlets with a mapped local area).

Branded outlets tracked2,247in this sector

Brands2with at least one outlet

Local areas326with at least one outlet

Most outlets

Which local areas have the most gambling outlets?

#	Local area	Outlets	Brands present	Per 10,000 residents
1	Liverpool	68	2: William Hill, Betfred	1.3
2	Glasgow City	67	2: William Hill, Betfred	-
3	Birmingham	44	2: William Hill, Betfred	0.4
4	Leeds	40	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.5
5	Manchester	36	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.6
6	Sheffield	30	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.5
7	Salford	26	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.9
8	Ealing	25	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.6
9	North Lanarkshire	25	2: William Hill, Betfred	-
10	Sefton	24	2: William Hill, Betfred	0.8
11	South Lanarkshire	22	2: William Hill, Betfred	-
12	Wakefield	21	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.6
13	Bradford	20	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.4
14	Enfield	20	2: William Hill, Betfred	0.6
15	Barnet	19	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.5
16	Sandwell	19	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.5
17	Croydon	18	2: William Hill, Betfred	0.4
18	ONS area E06000065	18	2: William Hill, Betfred	0.3
19	Sunderland	18	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.6
20	Wirral	18	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.5
21	Blackpool	17	2: William Hill, Betfred	1.2
22	Brent	17	2: William Hill, Betfred	0.5
23	Cornwall	17	2: Betfred, William Hill	0.3
24	Kingston upon Hull, City of	17	2: William Hill, Betfred	0.6
25	Knowsley	17	2: William Hill, Betfred	1.0

Local areas are local authority districts. Brands present shows how many brands have an outlet there and the five with the most.

Fastest growing

Which local areas added the most gambling outlets?

#	Local area	Previous release	This release	All outlets now
1	Ealing	25	25	25
2	Sandwell	19	19	19
3	ONS area E06000065	18	18	18
4	Cornwall	17	17	17
5	Brent	17	17	17
6	Tower Hamlets	17	17	17
7	Hounslow	16	16	16
8	Stockport	15	15	15
9	Rochdale	14	14	14
10	Haringey	14	14	14
11	Nottingham	13	13	13
12	Barnsley	13	13	13
13	Dudley	13	13	13
14	Wolverhampton	13	13	13
15	Falkirk	13	13	13

Net change in outlets for brands present in both releases, for local areas with at least 5 outlets in the sector. No brand in this sector is new to this release.

Method

How these figures are made

Counts are h3hex's own store-by-store record of each brand's published UK locations for the brands listed in the Gambling sector of the h3hex data store, November 2026 release (scrape window 30 Oct - 3 Nov 2026), page built 2026-11-06. Closed, pre-opening and head-office records are left out. 0 outlets with no mappable postcode are counted in the totals but not in the local-area tables. 4 districts created in 2023 are shown by their ONS code because the postcode lookup used here carries no name for them. Net change compares this release with the 29 October 2026 edition of the same dataset and reflects openings and closures as well as improved coverage of each brand's own locator. Resident population is Census 2021 usual-resident population by output area, summed to local authority district through the ONS postcode-to-output-area lookup (May 2024). The population table does not join to the lookup for districts in Northern Ireland and Scotland, so outlets per 10,000 residents is shown as - for them.

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Use the data

Prospect site reports assess a single address against these brands, and the data store sells the gambling store lists brand by brand or as a sector bundle.