Who wants to live next to a Millionaire?

Ever wondered where the 60,000 plus millionaires in the UK actually live? Well the new 'Millionaire Neighbourhood Report' compiled by marketing and business intelligence company EuroDirect, has identified the top 100 millionaire havens around the UK, identifying which towns and city regions have the highest numbers of millionaires in residence.

Unsurprisingly, London dominates the top 20, with Hampstead coming in at 1st place with 294 millionaires in residence. This is closely followed by Chelsea (4th), Wimbledon (5th), Golders Green (8th) St John's Wood (9th) and Putney (10th). Scotland also scores highly in the chart, with the Blackhall and Morningside districts of Edinburgh placed at 2nd and 3rd respectively. Hazelhead in Aberdeen also comes in at joint 6th place with Kensington in London.

No areas outside of London or Scotland appear until 14th place in the chart, which sees popular retirement spot Hove in East Sussex sharing the position with Corstorphine in Edinburgh, both with 152 millionaires. Commuter town Harpenden in Hertfordshire makes a respectable 16th place, with 148 millionaires, closely followed by Pinner in Middlesex and Maidenhead in Berkshire which together share 18th place.

The Millionaire Neighbourhood Report reveals that just 61 towns and city areas in the UK contain 100 or more millionaires, and of this only 7 have more than 200 millionaires in residence. Given London's dominance of the top 10, Surrey fairs well in the chart overall, with 18 of its towns in the top 100, only 2 behind London.

The report has been compiled from EuroDirect's new publicly available database of names and addresses, the 'Millionaires Club'. This was built from the capture of over 12 million shareholder records from the registers of the FT Top 500 companies. By calculating the value of shares held in every company for each individual investor, EuroDirect were able to identify over 6 million affluent investors, and over 50,000 Millionaires.

John Dobson, Managing Director of EuroDirect comments:
" Although this report was compiled for commercial reasons it turned out to be a fascinating insight into the distribution of wealth in the UK."

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About the Callcredit Information Group
Callcredit Information Group (www.callcreditgroup.com) brings together experts across the fields of credit referencing, marketing services, interactive solutions and consultative analytics to enable our client base of businesses and consumers to make informed decisions using our innovative products and services. The group is made up of two complementary divisions:

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About EuroDirect
EuroDirect (www.eurodirect.com), the marketing services business within Callcredit information group and is one of the UK's leading marketing suppliersThe company is well established in the field of direct marketing. Clients include over 40% of the UK's top 1,000 companies, including three of the top five largest multi nationals Examples are Npower, Airmiles, Capital One, Scottish and Southern, Barclaycard and HBOS. EuroDirect is a prime supplier of consumer data, targeting and segmentation systems, credit marketing services and software and technologies to help marketers undertake consumer profiling, analysis, targeting, data management, market analysis and decision support. EuroDirect also works internationally and has developed a suite of international segmentation tools under the CAMEO brand.