- One in 22 people in Chorlton, Greater Manchester, claimed on insurance
- Several districts in London close behind in list by Moneysupermarket.com
- A group of sleepy villages in Buckinghamshire also made the list
Desirable suburban areas with sky-high house prices suffer from a disproportionate number of burglaries, a survey of household thefts has revealed.
Chorlton, in Greater Manchester, home to a large number of trendy shops and bars, has more burglaries than anywhere else in Britain, with almost one in 20 people saying they have suffered a home invasion.
Herne Hill and Muswell Hill, well-heeled suburbs of London where the average house price is more than £600,000, came second and third on the list of the country's top 20 burglary hotspots.
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Burglary capital: London had the highest rate of burglaries with 12 out of the 20 worst areas
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Hotspots: All of the top 10 postcodes were in cities, but 20th-placed was in Buckinghamshire
A spokesman for MoneySupermarket.com, which compiled the figures, said that burglars like to target wealthy areas as homes there are more likely to have desirable objects to steal.
Its staff examined more than three million insurance quotes for burglary over the course of a year, noting where and when people declared they had been burgled before.
The M21 postcode was the worst-hit with 45.2 claims per thousand people, or one in 22.
SE24, in south London, was close behind - followed by the leafy north London suburb of Muswell Hill, home to middle-class icons like opera singer Lesley Garrett.
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Suburban: But Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester is the UK's worst burglary hotspot
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At risk? Muswell Hill, home to opera singer Lesley Garrett (left), and the old stomping ground of pop star Florence Welch (right) in south-east London are both high up on the list
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Trendy: Herne Hill is burglars' second favourite place to go on a crime spree
More than half the postcodes on the top 20 list were from London, including trendy neighbourhoods in the east of the city such as Dalston, Hackney and Stoke Newington.
Perhaps most surprisingly of all, the number 20 spot was taken by a clutch of sleepy towns in Buckinghamshire.
Out of all 20 postcodes featured on the list, all but three have house prices which are higher than the national average of £176,000, according to data from property website Zoopla.
Some relatively rural areas proved to be the safest spots in Britain - the Hampshire towns of Basingstoke, Chandler's Ford and Havant topped a list of the postcodes with the fewest burglaries.
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Low crime: The area with the lowest number of burglaries was Basingstoke in Hampshire
Bideford in Devon, the East Riding of Yorkshire and beauty spots on the Scottish coast were also listed among the least crime-ridden areas.
Kevin Pratt, from MoneySupermarket, said: 'While the M21 postal district in Manchester is the country's most notorious burglary claim hotspot, it is London that dominates the top 20 rankings.
'But just because somewhere is named a claim hotspot, it doesn't actually mean the area in question is not a nice place to live.
'Thieves often target areas with wealthy residents and desirable properties where the rewards are potentially greater or quieter areas where they think there is less risk of being caught red-handed.'
POSTCODE ROBBERY: WHERE YOUR HOME IS MOST AT RISK
1. M21 Chorlton-cum-Hardy; Barlow Moor, Manchester - average house price £238,000 - 45.2 insurance claims per 1,000 people
2. SE24 Herne Hill; Tulse Hill (part), London - £638,000 - 41.8
3. N10 Muswell Hill, London - £674,000 - 40.9
4. RM8 Dagenham; Becontree; Becontree Heath, London - £188,000 - 35.9
5. N2 East Finchley; Fortis Green; Hampstead Garden Suburb (part), London - £795,000 - 34.5
6. L18 Allerton; Mossley Hill, Liverpool - £242,000 - 33.3
7. L22 Waterloo, Liverpool - £155,000 - 32.6
8. N18 Upper Edmonton; Edmonton (part), London - £245,000 - 32.3
9. UB6 Greenford; Perivale, London - £310,000 - 30.9
10. SE27 West Norwood; Gipsy Hill (part), London - £381,000 - 30.5
11. B73 Boldmere; New Oscott; Wylde Green, Birmingham - £241,000 - 29.5
12. E8 Hackney Central; Dalston; London Fields, London - £443,000 - 29.4
13. DN2 Intake; Wheatley; Wheatley Hills, Doncaster - £116,000 - 28.7
14. N20 Whetstone; Totteridge; Oakleigh Park, London - £651,000 - 28.0
15. E9 Homerton; Hackney Wick; South Hackney; Hackney Marshes; Victoria Park, London - £382,000 - 27.8
16. N11 New Southgate; Friern Barnet; Bounds Green; Arnos Grove (part), London - £398,000 - 27.7
17. N16 Stoke Newington; Stamford Hill (part); Shacklewell; Dalston (part); Newington Green (part), London - £502,000 - 27.7
18. LS16 Adel, Bramhope; Cookridge; Eccup; Far Headingley; Holt Park; Ireland Wood; Lawnswood; Moor Grange; Tinshill; Weetwood; West Park, Leeds - £257,000 - 27.6
19. B24 Erdington; Tyburn, Birmingham - £142,000 - 27.6
20. HP10 High Wycombe; Flackwell Heath; Handy Cross; Hedsor; Loudwater; Penn; Tylers Green; Wooburn; Wooburn Green; Wooburn Moor, Buckinghamshire - £452,000 - 27.3
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