When visiting a new place, it’s important to know where you can stop off for a toilet break.
Check My Body Health has analysed and ranked each UK city by using an index scoring system based on how many public toilets facilities and pharmacies are available. As a result, the most toilet-friendly cities for those with digestive problems have been revealed.
Brighton and Hove has a total of 197 public toilets and 73 pharmacies available for people to use.
The city has been given an overall score of 6.5 out of 100, meaning it sits in 30th place. Leicester also has the score of 6.5, sitting just above Brighton in 29th place. There were 68 UK cities used in the data.
Not all cities’ public toilets were up to scratch with Peterborough falling to the bottom of the list and scoring just 0.4 per cent when looking at the number of toilets on offer per population.
With less than the equivalent of 1 toilet available per 10,000, there are currently around 11,477 people per public toilet in the city based on the total population.
London, Aberdeen and Cardiff also rank within the four worst cities for toilet facilities, with more than 7,300 people per public toilet, or less than 1.4 toilets available per 10,000 people as equivalent.
Sian Baker, Head of Wellbeing Services and Registered Nutritional Therapist at Check My Body Health said: “For those with digestive problems such as IBS, IBD or food intolerances, even normal activities like seeing a friend for a coffee or lunch can come with a lot of added stress. That’s why it’s great to see that so many cities have good access to pharmacies and public toilet facilities to help cater to visitors with additional needs.
“It’s brilliant to see some smaller, often overlooked cities such as St David’s, Chichester and Wells making it into the top ten, as well as some more popular city destinations such as Newcastle upon Tyne and Manchester.
”However, with some cities seeing the equivalent of thousands of people per public toilet, there is definitely plenty of room to improve our access to these facilities, particularly that 74 per cent of the public said there weren’t enough toilets in their area in 2019.”
See the top 30 cities and their overall scores below.
What cities have the most public toilets in the UK?
- St Asaph - 68.8
- St David's - 56.1
- Bangor - 25.8
- Chichester - 25.1
- Wells - 24.0
- Lichfield - 20.2
- Truro - 18.8
- Salford - 16.5
- Stirling - 12.7
- Armagh - 10.3
- Newcastle upon Tyne - 10.1
- Manchester - 9.9
- Ripon - 9.0
- St Albans - 8.8
- Ely - 8.4
- Bath - 8.3
- Portsmouth - 8.2
- Preston - 8.1
- = Newry - 8.1
- Wolverhampton - 8.0
- Salisbury - 7.5
- = Norwich - 7.5
- Nottingham - 7.4
- Liverpool - 7.3
- Stoke-on-Trent - 7.0
- Belfast - 6.7
- = Chester - 6.7
- Durham - 6.6
- Leicester - 6.5
- =Brighton & Hove - 6.5
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