UK's 'worst' town named as place where most babies being born in Britain

Luton has the highest commencement complaint successful the UK (Image: Getty)

England and Wales are facing a colonisation situation as less babies were calved past twelvemonth than successful immoderate twelvemonth since the 1970s.

Families had an mean of 2.4 children each twelvemonth successful the past, becoming a well-known operation for the emblematic household successful the UK.

There was adjacent a long-running BBC sitcom called 2Point4 Children that ran from 1991 until December 30, 1999.

But caller figures present amusement determination were 591,072 unrecorded births past twelvemonth - the lowest fig since 1977.

This means the fertility complaint has fallen to its lowest since records began successful 1938. As a result, the mean household has conscionable 1.4 children.

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Luton was recovered to beryllium the worst UK municipality (Image: Getty)

The fertility complaint dropped successful each portion of the country, with the largest autumn seen successful Wales and the North West of England.

However, 1 municipality successful the UK has bucked this inclination with a fertility complaint of 2.01.

Luton successful Bedfordshire had the highest fertility complaint successful the UK, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

In 2023, the satirical website I Live Here asked radical to nominate their towns arsenic either the champion oregon worst successful the UK.

Luton ended up being the worst municipality successful the country, according to the respondents.

The fertility information from the Office for National Statistics recovered that Cambridge had the lowest fertility complaint past year, astatine 0.91.

The mean fertility complaint is 1.4 children successful the UK (Image: Getty)

Cambridge was followed by Brighton and Hove (0.98), Camden (1.00), Westminster (1.00) and Islington (1.01).

Behind Luton, Barking and Dagenham (2.00), Slough (1.93), Pendle(1.90), and Wolverhampton (1.87) made up the apical 5 for the highest rates.

The UK's fertility complaint peaked successful 1964 erstwhile it reached 3 children per family.

But since past it has rapidly dropped owed to factors specified arsenic the accrued cost of living and stagnating wages.

Official figures besides amusement that the mean property of mothers and fathers has mostly been expanding implicit the past 50 years.

In 2023, the mean property of mothers remained astatine 30.9 years, portion it accrued to 33.8 years for fathers.