REVEALED: The UK's Most Sleep Deprived Cities

Over the past year, internet searches around sleep have skyrocketed, as more and more people turn to Google for answers to their sleep problems. But where in the UK are people struggling with sleep the most?

Myvitamins have analysed Google search data for a wide range of different sleep-related queries, covering everything from sleep issues, like insomnia, night sweats and restless leg syndrome, to solutions, like sleep music, weighted blankets and meditation, to reveal the UK’s most sleep deprived cities – https://www.myvitamins.com/articles/lifestyle/which-are-the-uks-most-sleep-deprived-cities/

Liverpool came out on top as the UK’s most sleep-deprived city, with an annual total of 161,073 searches per million people, followed by Leicester with 152,349 searches per million people. At the other end of the table, people in Manchester are having the least trouble sleeping. Despite being neighbours, it seems that Manchester doesn’t share Liverpool’s sleep woes, with an annual total of just 30,586 sleep-related searches for every million people.

Rank	City	Annual Searches Per Million People
1	Liverpool	161,073
2	Leicester	152,349
3	Edinburgh	148,591
4	Bristol	141,538
5	Belfast	115,210
6	Glasgow	112,398
7	Leeds	103,034
8	London	96,773
9	Bournemouth	93,188
10	Sheffield	87,785
11	Birmingham	66,733
12	Nottingham	63,334
13	Southampton	60,917
14	Huddersfield	60,847
15	Newcastle	60,711
16	Portsmouth	57,322
17	Cardiff	49,060
18	Swansea	42,428
19	Middlesbrough	42,147
20	Manchester	30,586

Myvitamins then combined the total figures across the UK, to see what we’re searching for the most as a nation.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, people are searching for weighted blankets more than anything else, with a total of 343,920 searches over the past year. Insomnia was the most searched for condition, with 298,680 people searching for information about the sleep disorder each year, followed by sleep apnoea, with 259,320 annual searches.