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Data Analysis - Density of Paranormal Places per Region (in Square Miles)

Report based on 7944 records, extracted from the Paranormal Database on 01 May 2008. The total area of each region has been taken from the respective wikipedia entries in square miles. Records have been sourced from literature within the Recommended Reading Section, newspapers, magazines, websites and through personal communication.

Data is displayed in order by highest density of paranormal places per region.

Rank	Area	Number of Entries	Size of area (Sq miles)	Paranormal places per Square Mile	1 paranormal place every x mile
1	Greater London	470	609	0.77	1.30
2	Lancashire	402	1187	0.34	2.95
3	Isle of Wight	43	147	0.29	3.42
4	Essex	408	1417	0.29	3.47
5	Derbyshire	244	1013	0.24	4.15
6	West Midlands	81	348	0.23	4.30
7	Surrey	138	642	0.21	4.65
8	Suffolk	314	1467	0.21	4.67
9	Bedfordshire	97	477	0.20	4.92
10	Sussex	271	1500	0.18	5.54
11	Somerset	281	1,610	0.17	5.73
12	Lothian	93	564	0.16	6.06
13	Cornwall	210	1376	0.15	6.55
14	Hertfordshire	94	634	0.15	6.74
15	Dorset	147	1024	0.14	6.97
16	Norfolk	285	2074	0.14	7.28
17	Cheshire	122	905	0.13	7.42
18	Kent	194	1,442	0.13	7.43
19	Berkshire	64	487	0.13	7.61
20	Northamptonshire	112	913	0.12	8.15
21	Wiltshire	164	1346	0.12	8.21
22	Buckinghamshire	86	724	0.12	8.42
23	Devon	303	2590	0.12	8.55
24	Nottinghamshire	96	834	0.12	8.69
25	Inverclyde	7	62	0.11	8.86
26	Yorkshire	493	4596	0.11	9.32
27	Isle of Man	23	221	0.10	9.61
28	Hampshire	151	1455	0.10	9.64
29	Warwickshire	77	763	0.10	9.91
30	Hereford & Worcester	101	1101	0.09	10.90
31	Oxfordshire	92	1006	0.09	10.93
32	Gloucestershire	111	1216	0.09	10.95
33	Leicestershire	70	832	0.08	11.89
34	Renfrewshire	8	101	0.08	12.63
35	Durham	80	1033	0.08	12.91
36	Shropshire	91	1346	0.07	14.79
37	Staffordshire	68	1047	0.06	15.40
38	Cambridgeshire	135	2105	0.06	15.59
39	Cumbria	167	2613	0.06	15.65
40	Fife	32	512	0.06	16.00
41	Lincolnshire	153	2687	0.06	17.56
42	Lanarkshire	49	897	0.05	18.31
43	Wales	436	8000	0.05	18.35
44	Orkney	20	382	0.05	19.10
45	Northumberland	99	1935	0.05	19.55
46	Clackmannanshire	3	61	0.05	20.33
47	Angus	34	842	0.04	24.76
48	Dumbartonshire	2	61	0.03	30.50
49	Aberdeenshire	64	2437	0.03	38.08
50	Ayrshire	29	1138	0.03	39.24
51	Borders	41	1827	0.02	44.56
52	Argyll and Bute	59	2668	0.02	45.22
53	Moray	19	864	0.02	45.47
54	Perth and Kinross	38	2041	0.02	53.71
55	Shetland	10	566	0.02	56.60
56	Falkirk	2	115	0.02	57.50
57	Outer Hebrides	20	1186	0.02	59.30
58	Dumfries and Galloway	40	2481	0.02	62.03
59	Highland	142	11837	0.01	83.36
60	Stirling	10	844	0.01	84.40
61	Leinster	78	7634	0.01	97.87
62	Ulster	78	9452	0.01	121.18
63	Munster	62	9501	0.01	153.24
64	Connacht	31	6839	0.00	220.61

Connacht's paranormal places per square mile equates to 0.005, below the two decimal point rounding.

Greater London is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the region with the highest concentration on paranormal places per square mile - one paranormal place every 1.30 square miles, while the mean is 27.64). Yorkshire has the highest number of paranormal database records, but because of the large land area it ranks at 26 on the list (with one locale every 9.32 square miles).

The median of the square miles per paranormal place is 11.42. Only one Scottish region (Lothian) falls below this number. Population density is likely to be a contributing factor to this, and a future report will cross reference population density against number of paranormal places per county.

Bias may exist against the four Irish regions (Leinster, Ulster, Munster and Connacht). The Paranormal Database started to collect stories for the Mainland Britain in 1999, and only branched into Ireland in 2004. This may be responsible for Ireland being under represented in paranormal locales.

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