August 9, 2026
Ale you seeing this?!
Nearest Pint
Brits rush to rank the boozers — and the comments are already arguing over missing pints
TLDR: Nearest Pint maps how many pubs each Great Britain constituency has per 10,000 people, turning local drinking spots into a national ranking game. Commenters instantly split between jokes about crashing the site, disbelief over suspiciously low totals, and complaints that missing pubs make the results hard to trust.
A delightfully dangerous new map called Nearest Pint has done exactly what the internet was born to do: turn local pub pride into a full-blown public debate. The project ranks Great Britain’s parliamentary areas by how many pubs they have for every 10,000 people, using food safety records and population figures to crown the nation’s most pub-packed places. Northern Ireland is missing because its data works differently, and yes, people noticed everything.
But the real action is in the reactions. One commenter was genuinely stunned that Inverness and Skye supposedly have only 16 pubs, saying the area never felt short on places to drink and joking they may have simply visited all of them. Another user looked at the frenzy around the map and cracked that it was only 9am in the UK and the site was already serving a 520 error — a wonderfully British image of people stampeding online to check whether their constituency is properly supplied with ale.
Then came the classic comment-section twist: data drama. One skeptic flatly called the dataset “pretty poor,” claiming at least three nearby pubs were missing. And just when Britain thought it owned the pub conversation, someone lobbed in a continental flex: a Belgian town with more than 150 pubs for 14,000 people in the 1980s. Suddenly this wasn’t just a map — it was a boozy leaderboard, a local identity test, and a cross-border bragging war in one.
Key Points
- •The map measures pub density as the number of pubs per 10,000 residents by Westminster parliamentary constituency.
- •The analysis covers 632 constituencies in Great Britain and excludes Northern Ireland due to incompatible data availability.
- •Pub location data comes from the Food Hygiene Rating Service via GetTheData Open Pubs.
- •Constituency boundaries use the July 2024 Westminster geography from the ONS Open Geography Portal, aligned with the 2024 General Election.
- •Pub counts were produced using a spatial join in QGIS, and about 6% of pub records without valid coordinates were excluded.