EXCLUSIVE The towns with the MOST Turkish barbers as Britain is hit by explosion of high street salons - use our interactive map to see where your area ranks By EIRIAN PROSSER and PAUL THOMPSON and JAMES FIELDING and ANDREW YOUNG and KEVIN DONALD and STEWART WHITTINGHAM Published: 15:47, 22 December 2024 | Updated: 15:51, 22 December 2024 e-mail View comments It was once a centre of the linen trade with a railway featuring the world's first permanent steam train for passengers - but Darlington is now one of the Turkish barber capitals of the UK. The industrial market town in County Durham currently has 125 barber shops and beauty salons of all types, an increase of 25 in the last five years, according to data prepared for the Office of National Statistics (ONS). With a population of 110,562, it means there is one shop or salon for every 884 people in the town with many of them being Turkish barbers, according to research by MailOnline.
The figure means Darlington has more premises per head of population than any other borough or district in England and Wales, outside London , and is second only to Brentwood, Essex. Across England and Wales, with its population of 60,854,727, there are now 44,995 barber shops and salons - one for every 1,352 people on average. The total number of premises for the entire UK now stands at 50,535, an increase of 12.
3% on the 44,990 in 2019. The increases are far higher in some areas such as Luton, Bedfordshire, which currently has 145 premises, a.
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