1 INSANE Fact About Every English County That Will Change How You See It

One English county is bigger than Cyprus. Another is so small you could drive across it in twenty minutes, yet its homes cost more than counties ten times its size. From life-expectancy gaps of nine years between neighbours to a seaside town where people die younger than almost anywhere in the country, every one of England's 48 counties hides a number that changes how you see it. In this video, we explore: → County Durham homes average £138,587 — less than half the England-wide price — while Hartlepool's rent-to-income ratio of 15.9% is the most affordable in the country → North Yorkshire spans 3,341 square miles, bigger than Cyprus, yet outsiders only picture one small city → Rutland, at 147 square miles and 41,443 people, ranks 10th priciest of 55 counties — the tiniest line on the map hiding the biggest price tag → Nine years of life separate two wards twenty minutes apart inside the East Riding of Yorkshire — a gap no map will ever show you → Blackpool holds England's lowest life expectancy at 73.7 years for men, in the same county that opened Britain's first motorway in 1958 → Buckinghamshire is England's most expensive county — and Turville, a village most have never heard of, averages £1.4 million a home → Devon's North District house prices are climbing at 22.4%, among the top ten fastest in the UK → Dorset's median age is 52 against a national 40 — a county that's really a preview of England's future → Inside the City of London's 2.9 square kilometres live just 8,600 residents, yet more money moves through that square mile than most of the other 47 counties combined → Essex went from zero cities to three in a single decade — faster than most counties manage in a century → And at number one: a London borough where rent consumes a share of income so extreme it stands almost five times apart from England's most affordable — same country, same currency, same government Subscribe for more hidden corners of Britain.