The map above shows the shocking fact that 50% of the World’s GDP of $105 Trillion is located in just 3 regions. And is even more surprising because it doesn’t include California which is the world’s 4th or 5th biggest economy.

The 3 regions are:

• Most of the Eastern and Southern US states including Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Michigan (but as mentioned excluding California)
• Many of the richest parts of Europe including parts of Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Andorra, Monaco, and San Marino
• And finally the Eastern seaboard of China, Southern and Central Japan and South Korea.

It should be noted that these highlighted area don’t necessarily have the highest GDP per capita (e.g. Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Qatar, Iceland, Australia and Canada are all excluded whereas Mississippi is included), but highest areas of connected GDP.

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If there’s something strange, broken, smelly or anti-social in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? That’s right: 3-1-1.

The 311 number and the 311-branded apps that some cities provide are intended as non-emergency contacts for city services. For example, the City of Fresno lists illegal trash dumping, potholes, street light issues and flooding among issues that neighbors can report through the service.

So, while some residents treat it as a helpline for life in general — New Yorkers have raised issues such as “Can you check if my boyfriend is married?” and, yes, “I’d like to report a ghost in my window” — the 311 service is best thought of a place to report neighborhood problems that are not serious enough for 911.

That makes it a pretty good way to measure the livability of a neighborhood when you’re planning a move. It’s probably for the best that 311 calls are private, but what we can measure is call volume: the number of 311 calls made as a proportion of the number of residents in a given city or zip code. So, we did just that — and we can now reveal the neighborhoods where residents complain the most about local issues.

KEY FINDINGS

• Baltimore residents complain more about their neighborhood than residents of any other city, calling the 311 service 17,551 times per 10,000 residents per year.

• Riverside is the city where residents make the least complaints, just 906 per 10,000 residents.

• San Francisco’s ZIP Code 94110, in and around the Mission District, is the most complained about neighborhood in the U.S., with 12,026 calls per 10,000 residents.

• Sacramento’s ZIP Code 95608, covering the town of Carmichael, is the least complained about neighborhood, with just 168 calls per 10,000 residents per year.

Baltimore — the First and Busiest of 311 Services

The city of Baltimore established the first 311 service as a non-emergency alternative to 911 on October 2, 1996, and the idea quickly spread across the U.S. and Canada. New York City alone has received over half a billion 311 reports since launching in 2003, of which 360 million (68.4%) came in as phone calls. We looked at the number of 311 calls made in each city over the past year before zooming in on the ZIP codes about which these calls were made.

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Baltimore started the first 311, and it remains the most popular — although that may not be a positive thing. It is one of just three cities (along with Sacramento and Albany) where there is more than one call per resident per year. In Baltimore’s case, the average resident makes 1.76 calls. A 2019 analysis revealed that, while issues raised in the Southeast of the city were almost always resolved within seven working days, calls from the Southwest almost always took longer. Some four out of ten calls were residents following up on previous calls.

The City of Sacramento encourages its residents to call 311 for any customer service request they have, including seeking information and setting up new services. This could explain why Sacramento ranks so high on this list.

Two Baltimore ZIP codes are among the three neighborhoods with the most complaints across the U.S. — although these are found in the Northwest of the city around Park Heights and the Southeast between Canton and Greektown.

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But the ZIP code where residents complain the most is San Francisco 94110: the Mission District. The most common complaints in SF are about uncollected trash and dumped bulky items.

“Yeah, sure, it should be the city’s job, but … why wait for an official solution to come?” asks James Thompson, who founded the community clean-up group Clean Streets on his Mission District block, from which it grew to cover other areas. “The pandemic had just really taken root, and things were all closed. And, in those early months, the city stopped doing any kind of street sweeping at all. And so the litter problem got really, really bad in the neighborhood.”

Fresh Meadows is NYC’s Busiest ZIP Code for 311

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Just one NYC ZIP code manages to file more than one complaint per person per year: the Fresh Meadows neighborhood of Queens. The noise levels in the neighborhood have caused many a local to pick up the phone since, in addition to being on the flight path, locals must deal with the noise of rampant drag racing. The least troublesome area is the Co-op City neighborhood of the Bronx. As a cooperative housing development, residents are encouraged to resolve issues internally, particularly since complaining to 311 can attract unwanted attention from the City.

90210 is Home to LA’s Second Most Satisfied Residents

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The Boyle Heights neighborhood, east of Downtown, is LA’s worst area for resident complaints. Thousands of Boyle Heights residents call in complaints about graffiti every year, while ABC7 points out that the neighborhood is at the meeting point of several freeways — “where all kinds of trash accumulates.” The second quietest 311 line is in perhaps LA’s most famous ZIP code: 90210, which gave its digits to the eponymous 1990s teen show and where maintenance of reputation goes hand in hand with maintenance of the streets.

Forest Glen/Jefferson Park Areas Require Most Attention in Chicago

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The Forest Glen area of Chicago makes 41.5% more calls to 311 than the second-placed neighborhood of Roseland and Pullman. In addition to its vast areas of park and woodland, the Forest Glen area has seen dense redevelopment projects in recent years. There is also some overlap with the Jefferson Park area, which is so directly in the flight path that a wheel from a passing plane once landed in a local garden.

Houston (Allegedly) Has A 311 Discrimination Problem

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Downtown Houston is the city’s worst area for resident complaints by a considerable margin. Nearly 20,000 people live in this busy area. The second-worst 77028, as well as top-ten ZIPs 77016 and 77026, integrate the Trinity-Houston Gardens neighborhood, which was at the center of a controversy last year after accusations that the 311 service responded more slowly to the area’s predominantly Black and Hispanic inhabitants more slowly than white citizens elsewhere. “We look forward to working with the Civil Rights Division to ensure the City of Houston is in compliance with its federal civil rights obligations,” said U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery for the Southern District of Texas.

The Philadelphia Districts Lined with Abandoned Cars and Feuding Neighbors

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The Philadelphia residents who make the most complaints make significantly fewer calls than those in the other cities that we’ve focused on. Abandoned vehicles seem to be the main gripe, to the extent that a recent city budget allocated $2 million to tow abandoned vehicles. The Fishtown and Kensington neighborhoods attract the most complaints, with the fast gentrification of the area feeding culture clashes — such as barbeques, anti-social or otherwise — between residents old and new.

Calling it Quits

Cities sell their 311 services as the friendly face of the municipality, aware that callers are also voters, easily turned off by lingering neighborhood issues. But with some areas facing greater problems — and, allegedly, less preferential treatment — call numbers can swell despite the best intentions of the callers and the harried souls of the 311 service centers.

Do check our full data on 311 call volume in the interactive table below, and take a closer look at the response rate and neighborhood issues of areas where you’re thinking of moving if their numbers are especially high.

Additional Sources

1. United States Census Bureau. (2023). County Business Patterns Data. census.gov
2. Hersh, S. (2020). George Gershwin and Rhapsody in Blue: An Experiment in Modern Music. guarnerihall.org
3. QNS News Team. (2018). Numerous Queens neighborhoods had the most alarm noise complaints in city, report finds. qns.com
4. Crain’s. (2013). LaGuardia jet noise has locals plane mad. crainsnewyork.com
5. Robb, T. (2018). Glenview Gets Update On O’Hare Noise, Fly Quiet Program. journal-topics.com
6. Percy, J. (2018). Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’. nytimes.com

Sometimes the grass really is greener when you get to the other side. And sometimes — if you invest wisely — you’ll enjoy not only greener grass and bluer skies but a handsome return on the money you spend in getting there.

And crossing that fence to live abroad or out-of-state is a big deal right now. American ownership of overseas assets grew by 40% to $35 trillion during the first year of the pandemic. Meanwhile, 35,000 Brits continue to buy abroad every year despite the obstacles set by Brexit and Covid.

The strong dollar makes the idea particularly appealing to Americans. Overseas property is also refreshingly IRS-proof. The tax service overlooks foreign homes since it would be “unable to seize or force the sale of your second home in Belize, your penthouse in Colombia, your beach house in Brazil, etc.,” according to Forbes. “Lawyers, former spouses, friends, ex-employees, and so on are likewise stone-walled.”

But while those buying to invest undoubtedly have an eye on local taxes and profitability, there’s romance and adventure in buying a place in the sun, and cultural factors also contribute. For example, mass emigration from Italy to the U.S. in the late 19th century had an immeasurable impact on American culture — and today, Italy is the number one dream destination for American buyers, according to MoverDB.com’s new research.

We analyzed search data from around the world to identify which country each other country wants to move to the most.

What We Did

International moving experts at MoverDB.com used online search data tools to analyze the number of searches for properties in every country around the world and identify the most popular place in each country among foreign property hunters. And then, we did the same, looking at which U.S. states each state wants to move to.

Key Findings

• Spanish property is the most sought-after in the world, with 34 countries searching for homes in Spain more than elsewhere.
• America’s first choice place to emigrate is Italy.
• But within America, more states are researching moving to Texas than any other state.

Spain is the World’s Most Common Property Fantasy

Spain is the most desirable destination for property hunters, with buyers in 34 countries searching for Spanish homes more than any others. A pleasant climate, good cost of living and viable property prices are the lure for Europeans, while the golden visa reward for investments over €500,000 tempts bigger investors. Meanwhile, buying Spanish homes at record rates (a year-on-year rise of 76%), with Americans taking advantage of direct flights and amenable conversion rates, although Spain is not the destination that Americans are most interested in.

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America’s first choice destination is Italy, with buyers often using their own Italian ancestry to access visas. They are tempted not just by the culture, the climate and their personal connections to the country but by the relatively easy-going healthcare and education systems — although these are, of course, paid for through taxation.

British people don’t plan on such a long, transatlantic haul. The number one dream destination for UK property buyers is just over the Channel in France. While Brexit has made this dream more cumbersome to fulfill, the idea of being ‘a bit more European’ while picking up a bargain remains appealing to Brits and is particularly attractive to retirees wishing to pursue the good life without venturing too far from their home island.

Brits Are the Most Eager to Buy Property Abroad

If you’re curious to find out which nation’s people are most interested in moving to your country then the map below is for you. We looked at the number of searches people in each nation made for property in other countries. We then compared these searches to their population to discover which nation’s people have the highest interest, per capita, in buying a house in each country on Earth.

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People living in the United Kingdom appear to be looking for an escape. They search more frequently than any other nationality for properties in 22 countries, from neighboring Ireland to far-flung China. The nationality that’s keenest on buying in the U.S. is Swedish. There is a strong Swedish line running through America: as long as 100 years ago, the U.S. could count 824,000 second-generation Swedish Americans among its population.

Americans Want to Move to Texas

Texas and Florida are the most attractive states for out-of-state buyers in the U.S., according to our figures. Property hunters in 17 states search for homes in Texas more frequently than anywhere else, while buyers in 16 states prefer Florida. Notably, nowhere has one of America’s priciest states — Massachusetts, California, DC or Hawaii — as its first choice.

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Texas has proved to be a real draw for buyers over the past decade. In fact, the Texan population grew by four million between 2010 and 2020, with half of those people moving from abroad or out of state. The cost of living is 8% lower than the national average, and Texas is one of just nine states with no income tax — with Florida among the others. Florida was a famously attractive place to move during the pandemic and the fastest-growing state in 2022. Traditionally a draw for retirees, Florida’s climate and landscape have opened up to a new generation that can work from anywhere.

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Coloradans seem the keenest to escape, being top of the list for search traffic for property in Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Wyoming. “I think mainly the moving out of Colorado has to do with affordability, that’s the number one reason that I see that happen,” says Denver realtor Kelly Moye. Fellow realtor Sunny Banka says: “I’ve had many that will tell you that they’ve gone for freedom, because of some of the politics in Colorado and some of the changes that we are seeing, because of some of the political actions that have been taken, you know, at the state level and locally as well.”

In It for the Long Haul

Rental income and value appreciation may be the cherry on top for those planning to use an out-of-state or overseas property as a holiday home or hold on to it for retirement. But it is clear that when it comes to a decision of such momentous scale as this, personal preferences, cultural inclinations and ease of relocating are to be considered as carefully as price and potential income.

You can find our full data regarding who wants to buy where in the interactive table below.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCES

To create these tables, we began by making a list of countries and the languages spoken in those countries. We then translated the phrase “house for sale {country}” into every language, with each country inserted into the phrase.

Next, we used Ahrefs and its Keyword Explorer tool. Using the “Matching terms” feature, we gathered search volumes for every associated search query and associated each query with a particular country. This allowed us to identify the most popular place to buy a house abroad for each country.

Finally, we determined which country is searched most frequently for properties in a given country by comparing the ratio of the number of searches to the population. In this step we counted only the number of searches for the initially compiled keywords (i.e., we didn’t use the “Matching terms” feature).

We repeated the steps for the U.S. states, instead using DataForSEO and its Google Ads API.

The data is correct as of May 2023.

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There is carpet-treading. And then there is historic carpet-treading.

Looking around other people’s houses is a fascinating and completely legitimate pastime, regardless of whether you are planning to move home. But when you get tired of following up your fantasy searches on Rightmove with IRL appointments, you can always take the hobby deeper by visiting a bona fide historic house.

Defined as a home that is old enough, nationally or architecturally significant enough and well-preserved enough to be of public interest, a historic house tends to offer a little more to its visitors than the average home on the market. The furnishings and artifacts may fascinate; the architecture and grounds may wow, and additional tours and presentations may give you the feeling of accomplishment that comes with ticking another museum off the list.

But perhaps most powerful of all is the aura of walking in the footsteps and laying in the bed (disclaimer: don’t do this) of the great and the good (and the awful). Europe has been home to plenty of these, and MoverDB.com wondered which of their houses are visited the most — and which ones, though rarely visited, are highly rated enough to be called hidden gems.

What We Did

MoverDB.com first compiled a list of historic castles, palaces, manors and birthplaces of notable people in European countries and used each house’s number of reviews on TripAdvisor as its visitor count. Then, we filtered for those with a review count that sat within the bottom third percentile but also had at least 25 reviews. We ranked these less-visited attractions based on what percentage of their reviews had five stars.

Key Findings

• The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is Europe’s most-visited historic house, with 63,362 reviews on TripAdvisor.
• The highest-rated hidden gem in the UK is Blairquhan Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland, with 97.4% five-star reviews.
• The UK’s most-visited historic house is Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, with 52,443 reviews.
• Outside of the UK, Skiathitiko Spiti in Skiathos Town, Greece, is Europe’s highest-rated hidden gem, with 96.6% of its reviews boasting five stars.

Homes of Ann Frank, Edvard Grieg and the Duke of Buckingham Among Europe’s Most Popular

Europe’s most-visited historic homes tend to have housed the high and mighty. But Norway’s representative is a little more modest. The composer Edvard Grieg was the son of a merchant and a teacher. His cousin designed a modest but charming home in Bergen for Grieg and his wife; it was finished in 1885, and Grieg would compose masterpieces in a hut outside the house and overlooking Nordås Lake for the next 22 years. Today, Troldhaugen — the ‘troll hill’ — is a museum in Grieg’s honor.

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With a roster of castles and palaces among Europe’s most-visited houses, it’s reassuring that the most popular of all is a little more sober.

The Ann Frank House may have been built in 1635, but the building would likely have been demolished in the 1950s if it weren’t for the significance it acquired during World War II. Instead, the home and its annex — where Frank hid from the Nazis for two years with her family, among others — was restored and kept as a museum from 1960. Today, it is a place of pilgrimage and learning, with 63,362 visitors leaving a review on TripAdvisor.

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The most-visited in England — although not the whole UK (see below) — is perhaps the most famous on our list. There has been a large home on the site since at least as early as 1628, with John Sheffield, later the Duke of Buckingham, ordering it completely rebuilt in 1703. The family of King George III unofficially occupied it 70 years later, and this building was to become the (much-changed) basis of the palace that his son, George IV, decided would suit him better.

It became the official London residence of the monarchy in 1837 and is now also the administrative HQ. With its proximity to Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and newer attractions, such as the London Eye, it is a must-visit for tourists.

A Humble Greek Island Home is Europe’s Best-Kept Secret

It’s not always wise to join a long queue — they could be waiting for the dentist. So, MoverDB.com identified the historic house in each European country where you’re least likely to find a throng of fellow visitors. These attractions have very few but very good reviews on TripAdvisor.

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Curiosities abound away from the beaten track – and sometimes, the clue is in the name. While the Castle of Ooidonk’s name is not as cute as it sounds (it comes from a Dutch word meaning “a higher piece of land in a swamp”), the house itself is very cute: a fairy-tale castle currently occupied by the 6th Count and Countess t’Kint de Roodenbeke and their children.

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“What a little gem! Stumbled on this by chance and was completely amazed by the history of the family that have kept both relics from there [sic] past and the story of their ancestors alive,” writes one reviewer of Europe’s top hidden gem of a historic house. The two-floor stone Skiathitiko Spiti house was built on the island of Skiathos in 1910 and is today preserved by the same family as a museum of traditional Skiathian life and crafts, as well as boasting unique family heirlooms.

Edinburgh Castle is Most Besieged Castle in the UK — Today and In History

There’s a lot of history on these little islands, and the oldest continuously occupied UK home boasts over 1,000 consecutive years of posh inhabitants. It gets bonus points for its very British-sounding name, but Great Tangley Manor makes neither our list of most-visited or historic UK houses nor hidden gems.

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The most visited historic house in the UK by quite a stretch is Edinburgh Castle in the Scottish capital. Whether approached by tourists or by the English army, Edinburgh truly earns its epithet as “the most besieged place in Britain,” with 77% more reviews on TripAdvisor than second-placed Buckingham Palace. There have been royals in residence on and off since the 12^th century, although it has mostly been used as a military base and tourist attraction since the 17^th century.

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While the UK’s most visited historic houses are mostly palaces and castles, the hidden gems reveal a richer side to the islands’ history. The top hidden gem is a Tudor revival castle completed in 1824 and later used to film part of The Queen (2006). But you will also note the writer D. H. Lawrence’s birthplace, a manor house featuring witch repellents, and the authentically-preserved Georgian townhouse of Emery Walker, mentor to William Morris, which is a treasure trove of Morris’s Arts & Crafts-style furniture and artifacts.

Every House is Historic for Someone

Of course, the real dream for historic house enthusiasts is that they might one day live in one. Perhaps a European chateau of note that comes up on the market or a UK dwelling that was once home to a historic figure. Or, perhaps, you already live in an old home, and all that will take to transform it into a historic house is for one of your family members to marry a duke.

You might not be keen to invite too many tourists into your home — but you can check your competition among the most popular historic houses and the hidden gems in our full data below.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCES

To discover the most visited historic houses in Europe and the hidden gems among them, we began by curating a seed list of 1,563 historic houses from every European country. Historic houses include castles, palaces, manors, birthplaces of notable people, converted specialty museums and historic buildings that have been converted into home museums for display purposes.

With this seed list, we analyzed each of their existing Tripadvisor review pages, focusing on the number of reviews and the percentage of 5-star reviews.

We counted the number of reviews as a proxy for ranking the most visited historic houses.

To uncover the hidden gems, we filtered historic houses with a review count that sat within the bottom third percentile of historic houses in our seed list but which also had a minimum of 25 reviews in order to negate attractions without a reasonable representation of visitors. These less-visited attractions were then ranked on their % of 5-star visitor reviews.

Due to uncertainties surrounding the current accessibility of attractions in Ukraine, historic houses from there were omitted from our final analysis.

The data for this analysis is correct as of May 2023.

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They say that moving house is one of the most stressful life events (especially if it involves international container shipping) , and one study reveals that (for Brits at least) it’s very true. But unfortunately — like taxes — it’s an inevitable part of life for most people, with the same study revealing that the average Briton moves four times throughout their lifetime.

People move house for all sorts of reasons, from wanting to be closer to family or work to needing more room (as is the case for 42% of Brits). For those renting privately, soaring rental costs may make staying in the same property simply unaffordable.

That being said, many homeowners across the country are able and content to settle for the long term, living somewhere ideal for their lifestyle and family, work and school connections. A friendly neighborhood or cheaper local cost of living might also anchor someone to their home — but in other cases, the decision to stay put is forced by record-high house prices that make moving feel like an impossible dream.

But from leafy rural towns to bustling city centers, have you ever wondered where in the UK homeowners are the most and least likely to move away from? With this in mind, MoverDB.com delved into a houseful of Rightmove data to discover the towns, cities, council areas and London boroughs where homeowners stay for the longest and shortest time.

What We Did

We first collected a sample of 1,000 properties sold in each UK postcode area (25 million properties in total) from Rightmove and calculated the difference between the date of the property’s latest sale and the date of data retrieval (25th Jan 2023). We could then work out each location’s average homeowner tenure.

Key Findings

• Homeowners in Buckfastleigh, South Devon, are the most settled in the UK, with an average tenure of 4,292 days or 143.1 months (nearly 12 years)
• …But Welsh towns like Llanfairfechan, Newcastle Emlyn and Tyn-y-gongl also see the longest homeowner tenures
• Inverness homeowners have the longest tenures of any city (1,998 days/66.6 months); meanwhile, Dunfermline homeowners stay for the shortest time (357 days/11.9 months)
• The City of London holds onto homeowners for longer than any other council area (4,131 days/137.7 months), while Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire ranks last
• Wandsworth’s homeowners have the shortest tenures of any London borough (471 days/15.7 months)

Buckfastleigh, South Devon, Holds Onto Homeowners for the Longest

When you move into the right home, staying put is easy to do, and it’s something of a hobby for Britons: according to a Statista survey, Brits who own their home outright will stay for over 22 years. That’s quite a long time when you consider it’s more than a quarter of the average Brit’s life span — but where on a local level are homeowners staying the longest?

Our analysis reveals that the answer is Buckfastleigh, South Devon, where the average homeowner enjoys a tenure of 4,292 days or 143.1 months — that’s nearly 12 years. So what’s the appeal of settling in for the long haul in this small market town? For one thing, Buckfastleigh is located just a stone’s throw from Dartmoor National Park, arguably the quietest and calmest national park in the country, as it draws the fewest crowds. Staying close to nature likely benefits Buckfastleigh’s deep-rooted residents, as studies have shown that spending time in nature boosts mental health.

Eight other locations in our ranking are in Wales, the leading location being the seaside town of Llanfairfechan, where the average homeowner stays put for 4,251 days or 141.7 months (11.8 years). A plan for new houses has drawn ire from locals, fearing out-of-towners will snap them up.

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But as the saying goes, some people only stay for a good time, not a long time. Homeowners in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, stay for just under a year (333 days or 11.1 months) on average before upping sticks — the shortest tenure in our analysis. In recent years, some parts of Hamilton have ranked among the most deprived in the country, according to the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD).

Next is Maidenhead, where the average homeowner’s tenure is 355 days or 11.8 months. Perhaps the Berkshire town’s struggling shopping district is one factor that pushes residents to move elsewhere.

Inverness Homeowners Stick Around Longer in Than Any Other City

Next, we turned our attention to the UK’s cities, revealing that the average homeowner in Inverness, nicknamed the Gateway to the Highlands, enjoys a tenure of 1,998 days or 66.6 months. Situated close to Loch Ness and among rolling hills, writer Tom Dyckhoff highlights the Scottish city’s “casually ordinary beauty,” fresh air and wildness. Beauty aside, residents are perhaps unwilling to move away from one of Europe’s fastest-growing cities and the happiest place to live in Scotland.

Several cities in the Midlands also rank highly: Birmingham (1,374 days/45.8 months), Wolverhampton (1,336 days/44.5 months) and Worcester (1,296 days/43.2 months). The average house prices in the East Midlands and West Midlands fall below the national average, which could explain why homeowners in the area are content not to relocate to a pricier part of the country.

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However, our data paints a drastically different picture of resident tenures in other cities. Dunfermline, Fife, holds onto homeowners for the shortest time on average at 357 days (slightly over a year). One factor that could be pushing out residents is a fairly high crime rate; out of 100 of the worst neighborhoods for crime in Scotland, Dunfermline Central ranks 34th.

Speaking of crime, the second-shortest tenure can be found in Preston (411 days/13.7 months), the third most dangerous city in Lancashire, with a crime rate 53% higher than the county’s overall rate.

City of London Homeowners Have the Longest Tenures of Any Council Area

 Our research reveals that homeowners in the City of London stay put for longer than those in any other council area. The average length of a tenure here is 4,131 days or 137.7 months, which works out to over 11 years. As councils go, the City of London is unique — not only is it the smallest ceremonial county in the UK (at just over a square mile), but it has its own government and police force.

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Housing much of the country’s financial district, not many people live in the City of London — indeed, it’s the second least populated council area in the UK. But with the average flat in the “Square Mile” going for nearly a million pounds, it’s not surprising that people living here might want to hang onto their very valuable homes for as long as possible.

Homeowners on the Isle of Anglesey rank next, settling for an average 3,376 days or 112.5 months. In recent years, Anglesey has been found to be one of the happiest places to live in the UK, boasting “fantastic views, sandy coves and relative isolation.”

…While Homeowners in the Broxtowe Council Area Move on the Quickest

 At the other end of the scale, Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire holds onto the average homeowner for the shortest time (375 days/12.5 months) of any UK council. It could be that homeowners are choosing to move away from deprived areas, as three areas in Broxtowe are among the country’s top 20% most deprived. Homeowners in nearby Ashfield, also in Nottinghamshire, don’t stay for much longer (389 days/13.0 months).

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Two Lancashire councils also place highly when it comes to short tenures — Fylde (378 days/12.6 months) and Preston (385 days/12.8 months), the latter of which is home to four schools in need of improvement, according to Ofsted. Not much further down our ranking is Crawley in West Sussex (436 days/14.5 months), which may be to do with the COVID-19 pandemic’s damaging effect on the local economy.

Wandsworth Homeowners Stay for Just 15.7 Months Before Moving On

 From Hillingdon to Havering, Greater London spans 32 boroughs and is home to just over one in ten people in the UK. It’s a region of the country where renters are leaving in spades due to rising rental costs — but which borough, in particular, do homeowners move on from the quickest? Our research reveals that Wandsworth takes the crown in that respect: the average homeowner in the southwest borough stays for just 471 days (or 15.7 months) before moving on.

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As an area once found to be the most popular in the UK for young professionals, it could be that Wandsworth homeowners are moving onto properties elsewhere as they age and start to grow their families. Residents might also be following the council’s encouragement to relocate to the countryside to free up housing in the borough.

After runner-up Waltham Forest (498 days/16.6 months) comes Croydon, where the average homeowner may leave after just 18.6 months to avoid the third-highest crime rate of any London borough.

Where in the UK Do Homeowners Stay for the Longest and Shortest Time?

As the Clash once crooned: should I stay or should I go? The decision to move house crosses the minds of many homeowners during their tenure — but what do homeowners tend to do in your neck of the woods? Explore our table below to find out the average length of time a homeowner stays in their property on a local level.

Even if you’re smack-bang in the middle of a friendly neighborhood with good local schools and shops, sometimes your house is just no longer in tune with your needs. The most common reason people in the UK move is for more room, but when the process of moving house takes between 11 to 21 weeks and costs close to £12,000, refurbishing might be a cost-saving and value-adding way to improve your home.

One study found that 64% of Brits that once thought about moving house changed their mind after having renovation work carried out. There’s no shortage of ways you can change up your home; for example, if you’re dreaming of another bedroom or a new study, you could look into having your loft converted (if you’ve got the space). Loft conversions in the UK typically cost between £21,000 to £44,000 — much cheaper than upping sticks entirely.

How We Did It

We analyzed data from Rightmove and obtained a sample of 25 million properties sold by postcode in the UK, searching the first 1,000 properties by postcode. For each property, we only considered the date of the most recent sale.

We calculated the mean tenure by city, county and London borough. To do this, we worked out the difference in days between the date of the latest sale and the date of data retrieval (25th Jan 2023).

After that, we mapped each postcode with three types of geographic areas: postal towns/cities, councils/admin areas and London boroughs. We used three-digit granularity (AB10, E1, EC1, etc.) for cities and full postcodes for London boroughs and councils.

Finally, we calculated the mean tenure for each geographic area in all available locations.

We only reported results for locations with more than 1,000 recorded transactions.

The data was collected in January 2023.

The growth of wealth fuels the growth of wealth inequality. And if the “world has never been wealthier,” inequality in housing has become a global issue among those that dominate 21st-century socio-economics.

The twentieth century was a boom time for cities around the world. People, industries and money flooded to economic hubs, fueling expansion faster than urban planners could negotiate it. Land and property prices — particularly in capital cities — were pushed ever higher, forcing poorer residents further afield. Gentrification is an old model that is gaining a new lease of life as urban dynamics shift again in light of post-pandemic economic developments, with low-wage service jobs failing to re-materialize.

On the other hand, those who can , buy — and then they buy again. “Housing isn’t housing,” says Richard Ronald , professor of housing and chair of political and economic geographies at the University of Amsterdam. “Housing is an investment good. It’s a pension.” Unfortunately, this model has boosted luxury home stock while compounding the lack of affordable housing across many global cities.

To paint a clearer picture of how the affordable housing crisis is playing out globally, MoverDB.com analyzed price trends. They found the balance of low-cost and high-cost homes in capital cities around the world.

About This Study

To calculate the percentage around the world, MoverDB.com began by finding popular local real estate websites in each capital city, adjusting the price filter and recording the number of lost-cost and high-cost properties. We defined low-cost housing as that which costs less than half the median home price value in its city and high-cost housing as that which costs more than double the local median price.

Key Findings

• 63.72% of all housing in Budapest, Hungary’s capital, costs more than twice the median price of homes in the city — the highest split of high-cost housing in any global capital.
• London has the fifth highest concentration of high-cost housing in Europe (27.93%).
• The Brazilian capital of Brasilia has the highest split of housing that costs less than half the local average (50.13%).
• Cyprus’s capital, Nicosia, has the lowest percentage of low-cost housing of any global capital (0.35%).

Half of All Housing in Brazil’s Capital is Low-Cost

Some 75% of the world’s population is forecast to live in urban areas by 2050, with the speed of
Urbanization being the most profound in developing countries. Yet there are already 850 million people living in slums and other “informal urban settlements,” and “in some megacities of low- and middle-income countries, almost 80% of the total population lives in slums,” according to researchers.

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In Brazil, rapid expansion has made the country a major international economy. Still, the housing deficit across the country affects 28.5 million people. However, in the capital of Brasilia, half (50.13%) of the homes for sale are low-cost, i.e., sold at less than 50% of the average local price. Only one European city makes this list, but eight of the ten capitals with the least low-cost housing are in Europe. Worst-served is Nicosia in Cyprus (0.35%).

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Nicosia also has the world’s fourth highest level of high-cost housing (42.64%). The Cypriot government is presently trying to address some of the worst living conditions in Europe, with the ruling party’s president Averof Neofytou stating that “we have to design our future housing policy with focus on affordable social housing as well as by launching funding programs that will facilitate access to homes, especially for our youth.”

London Has Europe’s Fifth Highest Level of High-cost Housing

London has the fifth highest level of high-cost housing in Europe (27.93%) but the ninth lowest level of low-costing housing in the world (2.98%). The Urban Reform Institute reports that London has the eleventh worst housing affordability levels of any major market in the world. The UK’s stark rich-poor divide is exemplified by contrasting experiences in the borough of Tower Hamlets, where more than 20,000 families families are on the waiting list for social housing. There is a 43% rate of child poverty, despite being home to the major financial district of Canary Wharf — where bankers can pay upwards of £600,000 for a studio flat.

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“Housing wealth has displaced other forms of capital in a number of developed economies since 1948 and has contributed to growing wealth inequality,” according to a report from Centre For Cities. The effects of this growing divide are often most pronounced in capital cities but also between capitals and regional cities since housing wealth tends to be less mobile than other forms of wealth.

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There is an ‘odd couple’ with the highest rates of low-cost housing: the capitals of Greece, one of the lowest GDP nations in Europe, and Luxembourg, which has the continent’s highest GDP. However, the Greek capital is ahead by a significant margin despite a decline in social housing over the years. Athens’ iconic polikatoikias were constructed during a “spontaneous, extra-governmental building boom” during the post-war period as a means for pleasant, affordable housing. They have proved a durable solution for low-income citizens. However, socio-economic shifts and the fallout from the credit crisis have warped the market, with locals gradually being priced out by wealthier buy-to-Airbnb investors.

A Global Crisis On the Doorstep

While the housing crisis may have its most profound effects in developing countries, the world’s wealthier capitals are among those presenting unprecedented obstacles in the wake of the pandemic. “Half the middle classes are richer than they ever thought they would be,” as Saskia Sassen — the urbanist who gave us the phrase “global city” — puts it, “and half are poorer.” It’s a problem all over, with 90% of cities sampled for a recent survey considered unaffordable according to common standards.

Land quotas, the repurposing of vacant properties and sustainable low-rent energy solutions, such as green roofs and solar panels in new builds, are among proposed counter-measures for an issue that has no prospects of going away any time soon — as long as the basic right of safe, affordable housing is shackled to the blight of wealth inequality.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCES

We set out to find the % of low-cost and high-cost homes (apartments + houses) in capital cities around the world. We began by finding popular local real estate websites in each capital city (e.g., Zillow for Washington, D.C.), toggling the price filter and recording the number of lost-cost and high-cost properties.

Using the median home price value for each capital city as sourced from a previous project (converted from USD using ExchangeRate.com), we set the following parameters:

• Low-cost housing = housing that costs less than 0.5x the median home price value
• High-cost housing = housing that costs more than 2x the median home price value

From each real estate website for each city, we could then retrieve the following:

• Total number of properties (all houses and flats, but not ‘land’) for sale listed in that capital city
• Number of properties with the ‘low-cost’ filter applied
• Number of properties with the ‘high-cost’ filter applied

This allowed us to calculate the number of low-cost and high-cost properties as a % of all properties within each city.

Heads of state play a symbolic role as the figurehead of the country that they lead. Their homes should be fit for a king, president or supreme leader, and it is in the national interest that this residence should embody their country’s identity, values and ambitions.

So, these homes are often big and showy.

Still, a certain grandness of scale notwithstanding, there are huge differences in size around the world. Some countries are restricted by space or money from positioning their palaces amidst sprawling estates, while others keep to the tens of thousands of m² from a sense of decorum and modesty.

For instance, just as King Charles III has opted for a “very human” un-embellished and crown-free portrait for his new postage stamps, he has adopted the townhouse of Clarence House rather than Buckingham Palace as his abode. This brings his ‘modern royal’ image closer to that of everyday people and makes him look as economically “woke” as he can for a chap whose hat features “rubies, sapphires, pearls, tourmalines, topazes, rubies, amethysts, garnet and aquamarines” and who likely quadrupled his £100m fortune on inheriting Queen Elizabeth’s throne and wealth.

Meanwhile, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan relaxes in UAE’s 1.5 million m² Qasr Al Watan palace amidst “149,000 unique pieces of silver, crystal and china” and a 12-tonne chandelier featuring 350,000 crystals. It is “a unique testament to the spirit of the United Arab Emirates’ people and its leaders,” according to official publicity, which the people should probably take as a compliment.

MoverDB.com wanted to track this wide disparity in values and floor space around the world. So, we charted the size of the official homes of the heads of nearly 60 countries, as well as those of every U.S. state governor.
 

What We Did

MoverDB.com used public sources or Google Maps estimations to obtain measurements (in square meters) of the official residences of the heads of state in the 58 different countries and 31 U.S. states with available data. We based our findings on the entire complex or estate’s area size. For heads of state with more than one official residence, we chose the property that they are known to live in the majority of the time.
 

Key Findings

• China’s President Xi Jinping lives in the Zhongnanhai complex in Beijing, which, at 3,439,830 m², is the biggest home of any head of state.
• Seven of the ten world leaders with the biggest homes are in countries in Asia and the Middle East.
• King Charles III’s main home of Clarence House is ‘just’ 2,646 m², the second smallest of any head of state in our study.
• Kansas’s State Governor Laura Kelly lives in the 846,966 m² Cedar Crest mansion, which is 11.6 times larger than any other state governor’s home.

China President’s Crib Equals 500 Soccer Pitches

The following table shows the top 25 largest state head homes in the world (you can see our full data table further down), yet this alone hints at the disparity in size around the world. Not only is China’s historic Zhongnanhai complex more than twice the size of second-place Drottningholm Palace in Denmark, but Drottningholm is nearly 20 times the size of Élysée Palace, where the French President Emmanuel Macron resides. At 1,624,290 m², the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf’s pad has a footprint of roughly 230 football (soccer) pitches.

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So how about Zhongnanhai? This former imperial garden is the home of the President of The People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, although he doesn’t get the buildings all to himself: it also serves as central headquarters for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and government. There was a palace there as early as the Jin dynasty (1115–1235), and the site has also featured two artificial lakes since that period. As a whole, the complex is valued at around £31,379,573,988, but few clues exist about Xi Jinping’s interior design choices.

King Charles III Lays £3.7m Hat in Modest Home

The UK is a constitutional monarchy, which means that our king or queen is head of state and gets a massive crib but no political power (while elected MPs do all the hard work legislating and have to make a home based on a salary of £84,144 plus housing expenses.) Still, King Charles III opts to live in the relatively modest Clarence House, which was home to The Queen Mother for nearly 50 years, and which is not big enough to put the UK in the top 20. However, it maintains a significant presence in our data since Charles is the nominal boss of 15 commonwealth realms. You can search and sort the home sizes of heads of state and U.S. state governors in the table below.

Even if Charles had a Clarence House-sized abode for every country that he heads, he would still be out-cribbed by more than half the leaders in our study and only narrowly beat Kazakhstan’s President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, whose Ak Orda Presidential Palace is a little under the size of 15 Clarence Houses. However, Charles always has nearby Buckingham Palace or Birkhall in Scotland among his options if things start to feel cramped around the 2,646 m2 of his grandmother’s former home.

The U.S. President may have the most famous home of any national head, but at 72,843 m², the White House is far from the largest (still, “the White House kitchen is able to serve dinner to as many as 140 guests and hors d’oeuvres to more than 1,000.”). At least he gets to lord it over most of the 45 U.S. state governors with official homes. Arizona, Idaho, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont don’t have active state governor homes for various historical reasons; Rhode Island just never had the impetus to designate one, and Arizona’s former governor Bruce Babbitt donated his to charity after deciding to live elsewhere.

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But the president is out-cribbed by two of his own state governors. Georgia’s Brian Kemp enjoys a 73,000 m² Greek Revival-style mansion, and Kansas’s Laura Kelly stretches out across the phenomenal 846,966 m² footprint of the Cedar Crest estate. However, in a cruel twist of fate, while Cedar Crest is the largest U.S. state governor’s grounds, the actual building is the smallest, at just 557 m².

Doing Laundry with the Attorney General

There are competing tensions at play in the housing choices of world leaders. Royals and politicians of a certain persuasion may prefer to give an air of tradition, wealth and power, while others are at pains to reassure citizens that they’re humble and understand the pressures of everyday life. Joe Biden recently reminisced in front of an audience, emphasizing that in his youth, he “lived in a three-bedroom home, a split-level home with four kids and a grandpop. And we were fine. It was when we were developing suburban areas and they’re building 60 homes alike.”

Biden may not live in a cookie-cutter suburban house anymore, but the familiar image of the president at his desk illustrates a further tension at the heart of the official residence: working from home carries a whole new meaning when you share the building with the government. You get an elaborate home, and even the smallest homes of heads of state are bigger than most of us will ever live in — but is it worth the trade-off?

METHODOLOGY & SOURCES

Our research considered the official residences for the heads of state or co-heads of state in 58 different countries and for the U.S. state governors in 31 U.S. states.

We carried out desk research to find out where the heads of state in 190 countries and U.S. state governors in every U.S. state live as of January 2023. In some cases, a head of state and their family may have more than one official residence, so we selected the property that they are known to live in either full-time or for the longest duration throughout the year.

For each home, we collected measurements that were published in news articles, real estate websites, architecture websites or estimated via Google Maps measurements. Any homes where data was either not published, ambiguous in what it was measuring or which only referred to a building’s size were removed from our final dataset.

Measurements represent the entire estate or complex sizes in square meters (m²) of the grounds that the residence is built within, which also may include gardens, woodland, courtyards and other palaces and buildings within the same enclosed area.

The data was collected in January 2023.

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The data is based on the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) which has fallen a stunning 80%+ since its peak in late 2021.

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The chart above shows which countries have the largest number of immigrants per capita for countries with a population over 1 million people. It is divided between those in the middle east (all of the top 5) and everywhere else.

Below we look at the actual immigrant numbers both in absolute and per capita terms.

Top 20 Countries With The Largest Number of Immigrants In Total

The United States has by far the world’s largest number of immigrants with over 50 million. This is nearly 4 times more than Germany which has the second highest number of immigrants at 13 million.

Country Name	Total Number of Immigrants	Share of Country's Population
USA	50,661,149	15.4%
Germany	13,132,146	15.7%
Saudi Arabia	13,122,338	38.3%
Russia	11,640,559	8.0%
France	9,589,322	14.1%
United Kingdom	9,552,110	14.1%
United Arab Emirates	8,587,256	87.9%
Canada	7,960,657	21.3%
Australia	7,549,270	30.0%
Spain	7,231,195	15.2%
Italy	6,273,722	10.4%
Turkey	5,876,829	7.0%
India	5,154,737	0.4%
Ukraine	4,964,293	11.3%
South Africa	4,224,256	7.2%
Kazakhstan	3,705,556	20.0%
Thailand	3,635,085	5.2%
Malaysia	3,430,380	10.7%
Jordan	3,346,703	33.1%
Pakistan	3,257,978	1.5%

Top 20 Countries With The Largest Number of Immigrants Per Capita

The Vatican has the largest number of immigrants per capita at 100%. This is because no is born in city state. The highest per capita share of any country with a population over 1 million is the United Arab Emirates which is 87.9% foreign born. Interesting, most of the country’s with the highest number of immigrants per capita tend to be microstates.

Country Name	Total Number of Immigrants	Share of Country's Population
Holy See (Vatican City)*	100%	799
United Arab Emirates	87.9%	8,587,256
Qatar	78.7%	2,229,688
Kuwait	72.1%	3,034,845
British Virgin Islands*	69.2%	20,778
Monaco*	68.0%	26,511
Liechtenstein*	67.0%	25,467
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)*	66.7%	28,260
Turks and Caicos Islands*	64.2%	24,534
Macao*	62.4%	399,572
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba*	59.6%	15,484
Andorra*	58.5%	45,102
Falkland Islands*	56.3%	1,902
US Virgin Islands*	54.3%	56,745
Isle of Man*	50.7%	42,864
Channel Islands*	48.7%	83,833
Guam*	47.7%	79,846
Luxembourg*	47.4%	291,723
Oman	46.0%	2,286,226
Bahrain	45.2%	741,161
Cayman Islands*	44.6%	28,985
American Samoa*	42.6%	23,539
French Guiana*	40.4%	117,372
Hong Kong	39.6%	2,942,254
Saudi Arabia	38.3%	13,122,338
Anguilla*	38.2%	5,679
Northern Mariana Islands*	38.1%	21,815
Tokelau*	37.6%	504
Singapore	37.1%	2,155,653
Niue*	36.4%	588
Aruba*	34.4%	36,532
Gibraltar*	33.2%	11,172
Jordan	33.1%	3,346,703
Bermuda*	30.9%	19,336
Antigua and Barbuda*	30.1%	29,207
Australia	30.0%	7,549,270
Switzerland	29.9%	2,572,029

*Country has population below 1 million people.

Top 20 Countries With The Fewest Number of Immigrants In Total

The countries with fewest number of total immigrants in total are all micro states. Tuvalu has the fewest immigrants at 238 and all the others on the list had fewer than 5,000.

Country Name	Total Number of Immigrants	Share of Country's Population
Tuvalu	238	2.0%
Saint Helena	433	7.1%
Tokelau	504	37.6%
Niue	588	36.4%
Holy See (Vatican)	799	100.0%
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	990	17.0%
Wallis and Futuna	1,022	8.9%
Montserrat	1,375	27.6%
Falkland Islands	1,902	56.3%
Nauru	2,114	19.7%
Sao Tome and Principe	2,174	1.0%
Solomon Islands	2,532	0.4%
Micronesia	2,819	2.5%
Kiribati	3,022	2.6%
Vanuatu	3,245	1.1%
Marshall Islands	3,296	5.6%
Cook Islands	3,491	19.9%
Tonga	3,752	3.6%
Samoa	4,035	2.0%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4,692	4.2%

Top 20 Countries With The Fewest Number of Immigrants Per Capita

This is perhaps the most interesting table. Cuba not North Korea has the fewest immigrants per capita of any country on earth. Amazingly, the Hermit Kingdom has 49,393 immigrants, which places it only 9th in terms of the fewest immigrants per capita.

The list also includes many countries you wouldn’t expect to see such as China and India, who both have immigrant populations of over 1 million each, but this still represents a tiny share of each country’s total population.

Country Name	Share of Country's Population	Total Number of Immigrants
Cuba	0.0%	4,886
Madagascar	0.1%	34,934
Myanmar	0.1%	75,998
Vietnam	0.1%	76,104
Indonesia	0.1%	353,135
China	0.1%	1,030,871
Haiti	0.2%	18,756
Sri Lanka	0.2%	40,018
North Korea	0.2%	49,393
Philippines	0.2%	218,530
Lesotho	0.3%	6,928
Somalia	0.3%	52,131
Morocco	0.3%	98,574
Solomon Islands	0.4%	2,532
Papua New Guinea	0.4%	31,212
Honduras	0.4%	38,933
Afghanistan	0.4%	149,762
India	0.4%	5,154,737
Eritrea	0.5%	16,101
Tunisia	0.5%	57,455

All data is for 2019 and comes from the UN’s INTERNATIONAL MIGRANT STOCK 2019 report.

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The map above shows which countries have recorded temperatures above 48°C (118.4F) and which countries have recorded temperatures below -48°C (-54.4F) and most interesting of all which have recorded both!

The United States is the leader in temperature extremes with the hottest temperature of any recorded place on earth of 56.7 °C at Death Valley and one of the coldest at −62.2 °C Prospect Creek, Alaska. A difference of 118.9°C!

Other countries with 100°C+ temperature extremes in order are:

1. Russia (113.2 °C)
2. Canada (112.6 °C)
3. Tajikistan (111.0 °C)
4. India (111.0 °C)
5. China (108.3 °C)
6. Kazakhstan (106.1 °C)
7. Pakistan (105.7 °C)
8. Afghanistan (102.1 °C)

Countries that have recorded temperatures both above 48°C and below -48°C are:

• Canada
• United States
• Italy
• Pakistan
• India
• China
• Afghanistan
• Kazakhstan
• Tajikistan

Countries that have only recorded temperatures above 48°C include:

• Tunisia
• Israel 
• Kuwait
• Iran
• Iraq
• United Arab Emirates
• Saudi Arabia
• Mexico
• Morocco
• Algeria
• Egypt
• Oman
• Western Sahara
• Australia
• Qatar
• Turkmenistan
• South Africa
• Jordan
• Sudan
• Syria
• Turkey
• Argentina
• Niger
• Greece

Countries that have only recorded temperatures below -48°C include:

• Kyrgyzstan
• Mongolia
• Russia
• Austria
• Finland
• Norway
• Sweden
• Greenland

Interestingly, 5 US states and 1 Canadian proinvce would also qualify for recording temperatures above 48°C and below -48°C in their own right:

• Utah
• North Dakota
• Idaho
• South Dakota
• Oregon
• British Columbia

But interestingly, Montana has the biggest extreme of any US state with a low of −57 °C and a high of 47°C for a combined difference of 104°C. However, that’s still not as much as the Canadian province of British Columbia with a range of 108.5°C!

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