Takeaways in your area Invalid postcode Takeaways per 1,000 residents 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 City of L. Westminster Blackpool Camden Burnley Scarborough Manchester Hartlepool Islington Hull Blackburn with Darwen Tower Hamlets Hyndburn Rossendale Bolton Pendle Lincoln Leeds Torbay Brighton and Hove Middlesbrough Norwich Leicester North East Lincolnshire Preston Bournemouth Hackney Stoke-on-Trent Bradford Nottingham Bury Wakefield Sheffield Hammersmith and Fulham Southwark Lewisham Wigan Darlington Liverpool Newcastle upon Tyne Reading Carlisle Worthing Southend-on-Sea Stockport Newham Kirklees Chesterfield Tameside Trafford Waltham Forest Hastings Bristol, City of Portsmouth Croydon Great Yarmouth Sandwell Fylde Calderdale Thanet Salford Southampton Barrow-in-Furness Redcar and Cleveland Allerdale Gateshead Haringey Lambeth Rochdale Gloucester Derby East Lindsey Wyre North Tyneside York St. Helens South Tyneside Havering Cannock Chase Watford Doncaster Cambridge Barking and Dagenham Ipswich Barnsley Chorley Dartford Stockton-on-Tees Rotherham Wandsworth Brent Cornwall County Durham Birmingham Rushmoor Ryedale Poole South Ribble East Staffordshire High Peak Sunderland Ribble Valley Copeland Worcester Mansfield North Norfolk Gosport North Devon North Lincolnshire Eastbourne Sutton Richmondshire Northumberland Weymouth and Portland Tendring Oldham South Lakeland Northampton Wolverhampton Walsall Isle of Wight Sefton Hillingdon Ealing Broxtowe Fenland Woking Christchurch Cheshire East Broxbourne Wirral Luton Harrow Oxford Greenwich Bexley Peterborough Stevenage Craven Thurrock Kingston upon Thames Dover East Riding of Yorkshire Bolsover Bassetlaw Harlow Wyre Forest Waveney Crawley Merton Coventry Bedford South Kesteven Lancaster Harrogate Amber Valley Warwick Adur East Northamptonshire Enfield Ashfield Kensington and Chelsea Cheltenham Redbridge Forest Heath Basildon Bromley Barnet Plymouth Dudley Medway Erewash Canterbury Newcastle-under-Lyme Bath and North East Somerset Warrington Castle Point Eden South Holland Wellingborough Hertsmere West Dorset Exeter Derbyshire Dales Slough Cheshire West and Chester King's Lynn and West Norfolk Shropshire Havant Gravesham Oadby and Wigston North Hertfordshire Charnwood Richmond upon Thames Telford and Wrekin Epsom and Ewell South Hams Kettering Cherwell Gedling Arun Redditch Halton Dacorum Hounslow Swale Taunton Deane Shepway Corby Surrey Heath Staffordshire Moorlands Maidstone Milton Keynes Bromsgrove Sedgemoor Teignbridge North Somerset East Devon Tunbridge Wells North West Leicestershire Eastleigh Stafford St Albans Rushcliffe Rugby Hambleton Spelthorne Suffolk Coastal Colchester North Warwickshire Lewes Brentwood St Edmundsbury Runnymede Hinckley and Bosworth Nuneaton and Bedworth Boston West Lindsey Swindon Wycombe East Hertfordshire Newark and Sherwood Purbeck Central Bedfordshire South Somerset West Somerset Rutland New Forest Selby Tamworth South Norfolk Braintree South Bucks West Lancashire Maldon South Oxfordshire Wychavon Ashford Wiltshire Epping Forest Rochford Windsor and Maidenhead Torridge Huntingdonshire South Gloucestershire North Dorset North East Derbyshire Welwyn Hatfield West Devon Stratford-on-Avon Tonbridge and Malling Mendip Chichester Melton Stroud Rother Malvern Hills South Derbyshire Elmbridge Hart Guildford Mid Devon Harborough Chelmsford Knowsley North Kesteven Blaby Forest of Dean Chiltern Mole Valley Herefordshire, County of West Berkshire Uttlesford Fareham Wealden Solihull Mid Sussex Babergh Cotswold Vale of White Horse West Oxfordshire Aylesbury Vale Winchester Breckland Three Rivers Lichfield East Hampshire Waverley Daventry Reigate and Banstead East Dorset Sevenoaks Mid Suffolk Basingstoke and Deane East Cambridgeshire Test Valley Tandridge Horsham Bracknell Forest Tewkesbury South Northamptonshire Broadland South Staffordshire Wokingham South Cambridgeshire Isles of Scilly more outlets fewer Change over time 2014 2017 188 204 85 82 69 72 150 184 175 195 71 60 149 155 63 70 54 62 320 358 251 251 67 77 138 147 43 45 112 119 48 48 108 116 133 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The total number of takeaway food shops in England has risen by 4,000 since 2014, an increase of 8% to 56,638 outlets, according to Cambridge University’s Centre for Diet and Activity Research.

Guardian analysis shows that the poorest areas of the country have disproportionately higher numbers of fast food outlets. Among the worst affected are northern cities such as Manchester and Leeds, low-income boroughs of London and seaside resorts in the south of England.

Use our interactive map to get the full picture for your area of interest – just enter your postcode or the name of any local authority. You might want to take a look at Barking and Dagenham, for example, which was the first borough to introduce a cap aimed at limiting the expansion of the takeaway sector. Or Blackburn with Darwen, which has the highest proportion of food retail outlets given over to fast food, at 38%.

In total, more than 20 councils in England have introduced planning regulations on takeaways since 2010, yet takeaway numbers continue to rise in most of these areas, and elsewhere.

Note: takeaways are defined by Feat as food outlets where hot food is ordered and paid for at the till, with no waiter service, and limited or no sit-in option. It includes bakeries, such as Greggs, as well as well-known brands more obviously associated with fast food, such as KFC and McDonald’s, and local independent takeaways.

