COLCHESTER is the 19th unluckiest place to live in the UK, according to new statistics.

Analysis by Paddy Power Games shows just 0.11 per cent of people from the town playing the online casino have won the jackpot since January.

Paddy Power says the data shows players from Colchester are among the unluckiest in the country.

Rochdale was found to be the unluckiest place in the UK, with just 0.07 players from the town winning the jackpot.

The research, which looked at the main jackpot wins on games played on the Paddy Power Games website, found that a higher proportion of players from St Andrews in Scotland claimed the big prize more often than any other place in Britain – with three percent of players from the town cashing in since January 2019.

Paddy Power says it’s the people of Newcastle that strike it luckiest when it comes to the size of the jackpot.

The average pay-out to a Geordie winner is over £350,000, with the Essex town of Romford’s £20,000 average coming a long way behind in second.

A spokesman for Paddy Power, said: “It seems the people of Newcastle have it all. It’s the home of Greggs sausage rolls, and the Geordies win big on the jackpots.

“Though everyone has an equal chance of striking lucky, the people of Rochdale might fancy a move north of the border to find some better luck in Scotland.

“St Andrews may have a great university and a nice coastline, but we all know that being named the luckiest location in the UK is what it’s really all about.”