The UK town with the highest influx of migrants where locals rage 'it's overcrowded'

By Max Parry, News Reporter

Aerial photograph of Middlesbrough (Image: Getty)

The North Yorkshire municipality of Middlesbrough is the UK's migrant capital, with much caller arrivals flocking determination per caput than anyplace other successful the country.

The Teesside municipality saw 6,800 radical determination successful in 2023. The town's colonisation is conscionable 150,000, meaning that of everyone that lives determination 4.4 percent are migrants.

"This country is overrun with radical coming successful and I heard that a batch of houses astir present are being done up to determination radical up from London", 1 disgruntled north-east section told MailOnline.

Another resident, retired scaffolder Peter Honeyman, 73, told the outlet: "Property is cheaper and they are gathering much houses successful the municipality centre wherever immigrants are being housed.

"Middlesbrough is lacking successful accidental arsenic it is anyhow truthful it could impact younger radical moving forward."

A antheral walks done Middlesbrough municipality centre (Image: Getty)

The town's popularity my beryllium down to its inexpensive spot prices and its proximity to apical universities.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the mean Middlesbrough location terms is £150,000. In comparison, the mean spot terms successful the superior is simply a staggering £686,298, according to Rightmove.

One resident, Dennis Jones, primitively from Ramsgate, Kent, told the Mail helium had moved up to Middlesbrough owed to inexpensive accomodation.

The 66-year-old erstwhile histrion surgeon told the outlet: "A definite origin successful wherefore Middlesbrough's numbers are truthful precocious is due to the fact that the rents are cheap."

A pistillate walks past a boarded up Debenhams (Image: Getty)

Another crushed immigrants whitethorn beryllium attracted to Middlesbrough is for entree to education. According to ONS figures, studying is the second-most communal crushed radical migrate to Britain, aft working.

Middlesbrough is surrounded by apical universities. Teesside University is based successful Middlesbrough itself, portion the prestigious Durham University is simply a abbreviated thrust away.

Further afield are the apical institutions York, recovered to the southbound of Middlesbrough, and Newcastle, recovered to the north.