The towns with the MOST Turkish barbers as Britain is hit by explosion of high street salons - use our interactive map to see where your area ranks
The towns with the MOST Turkish barbers as Britain is hit by explosion of high street salons - use our interactive map to see where your area ranks
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It was once a centre of the linen trade with a railway featuring the world's first permanent steam train for passengers - but Darlington is now one of the Turkish barber capitals of the UK. The industrial market town in County Durham currently has 125 barber shops and beauty salons of all types, an increase of 25 in the last five years, according to data prepared for the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
![[Darlington, County Durham, which has the highest concentration of newly opened barber shops per capita in the country]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/13/93400585-14214813-image-m-14_1734872637945.jpg)
With a population of 110,562, it means there is one shop or salon for every 884 people in the town with many of them being Turkish barbers, according to research by MailOnline. The figure means Darlington has more premises per head of population than any other borough or district in England and Wales, outside London, and is second only to Brentwood, Essex.
![[The growing number of Turkish shops in Darlington, offering trademark hot towel shaves, skin fades and waxing, has left many locals scratching their neatly trimmed heads]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/13/93400603-14214813-image-m-13_1734872624961.jpg)
Across England and Wales, with its population of 60,854,727, there are now 44,995 barber shops and salons - one for every 1,352 people on average. The total number of premises for the entire UK now stands at 50,535, an increase of 12.3% on the 44,990 in 2019.
![[Serhan Duman, 34, moved to County Durham from Turkey ten-years ago-and trained as a barber in Darlington]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/13/93400569-14214813-image-m-9_1734872478282.jpg)
The increases are far higher in some areas such as Luton, Bedfordshire, which currently has 145 premises, a rise of 61.1 percent on the 90 in the town 2019 – making it the biggest jump in the UK. Meanwhile MailOnline found there were 105 council areas, just under 30% of the 362 surveyed in the UK, which have recorded the number of premises staying the same or even going down.
![[Another barbers is pictured in Darlington - this time with its shutters down. One Turkish barber says the barbering culture is 'changing in the UK']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/13/93400581-14214813-image-m-12_1734872612437.jpg)
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