Hollyoaks is one of the most dangerous places in the world to live, with an incredibly high murder rate.
If the suburb in Cheshire was a real place it would have the highest murder rate in the world, mostly because of all the serial killers that have starred in the show.
The soap, which recently celebrated its 25th birthday, has seen 93 people murdered, working out at an average of 3.7 murders per year.
Over in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and EastEnders there have only been 20 murders each over the same period.
The murder rate in Hollyoaks is the equivalent of 12.4 murders per 1,000 people.
That’s about 1,000 times higher than the rate in England and Wales, which is 0.011 per 1,000.
It’s also nearly 10 times higher than Tijuana in Mexico, which had the highest murder rate in the world in 2019 at 1.34 per 1,000 people, according to analysis by El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), a Mexico City-based advocacy group.
The first five years in Hollyoaks were reasonably quiet - people even died of natural causes - then serial killer Toby Mills arrived in 2001 and killed 13 women over 2002 and 2003.
As a result, 2003 saw the joint highest number of deaths, along with 2013.
Toby Mills was also Hollyoaks most prolific serial killer - but the soap has seen six more killers wreak havoc so far.
However, the murder rate has dropped in the area in recent years.
It peaked at an average of 7.4 murders a year between 2011 and 2015, but has since dropped back to an average of 5.4 per year between 2016 and 2020.
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The other soaps, however, are becoming more dangerous places to live - perhaps closing the gap on Hollyoaks.
Between 2011 and 2015, there was an average of 0.8 murders per year in Coronation Street and Emmerdale, and 1.0 per year in EastEnders.
However, that rose to an average of 1.8 per year in Coronation Street, between 2016 and 2020, as well as 1.2 a year in EastEnders and 1.6 per year in Emmerdale.
Coronation Street has seen 25 murders in its 60 years, EastEnders, 28 in 35 years, and Emmerdale, 23 in 48 years.
