If soap towns were real places, nobody in their right mind would want to live in them.
The residents of Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and EastEnders are regularly come face to face with serial killers, gangsters and drug dealers.
Weatherfield alone has seen locals being stabbed, shot and bludgeoned to death, with Stephen Reid most recently pushing Leo Thompkins to his death off a tall building.
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But being the longest-running soap isn’t the only title the Manchester-based soap boasts, after it was revealed that it has the worst crime rate in soapland.
Since it first hit the airwaves in 1960, the soap now boasts the worst crime rate, with Weatherfield clocking up 267 serious crimes in it’s history.
However only 36 of those resulted in murder, making it the most desirable town compared to its fellow soaps.
EastEnders has racked up 437 crimes including 42 murders in Albert Square since 1985 and Emmerdale has 408 with a staggering 43 murders since it first aired in 1972.
Out of all of them, Hollyoaks is the soap to avoid the most, which has become soapland’s murder mile with a grand total of 85 killings and 115 crimes despite being the youngest soap on screens.
The Channel 4 soap’s “gloved hand killer” Lindsay Butterfield, played by Sophie Austin, has claimed the most lives out of any soap villain.
She has claimed the lives of seven characters in 2015 via lethal injection before she was arrested and convicted of her crimes.
Meanwhile, iconic TV gangster Phil Mitchell has a total of 21 crimes to his name, including torture, arson, firearms possession and manslaughter.
Attempted murderers Steve Owen and Dirty Den each achieved 18 offences in Walford, Emmerdale’s Debbie Dingle and Kate Tate committed 18 crimes each, alongside onscreen brother Cain Dingle.
But the king of crime is none other than Coronation Street ’s Pat Phelan, and if convicted, his heinous crimes would have landed him 278 years behind bars in the real world.
During his reign of terror, he was one of the most feared soap villains of all time before he left the soap back in 2018.
Played by Connor McIntyre, the gangster was a businessman, builder and a con artist who first waltzed onto the Cobbles back in 2013 and immediately made himself an enemy of the Windass family.
His horrific crimes, of which he raked up 22 during his five-year stint, included four murders, extortion and rape.
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Buzzbingo.com, which compiled the stats, said: “Viewers may want to relax after a hard day with some gently telly but what they are getting is a Quentin Tarantino-style bloodbath.”
But it appears as though his crown may be slipping as Stephen Reid eyes up his third victim in fiancée Elaine Jones.
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