NEW Forest residents are most likely to be the richest Echo readers, latest league table figures reveal.

The New Forest ranks 114th out of Britain's 459 local authorities for numbers of households with a collective income of more than £100,000 per year.

The district has 936 households earning six-figure incomes per year, compared with:

Poole borough - 166th (613)

Bournemouth borough - 173rd (592)

East Dorset - 239th (408)

West Dorset - 337th (227)

North Dorset - 348th (206)

Purbeck - 375th (153)

Christchurch - 407th (107)

Weymouth & Portland - 420th (86)

The research was carried out by CACI Information Solutions on behalf of NatWest Black, a credit card for over-25s earning more than £75,000.

NatWest Black marketing manager Fiona Gaze-Fitzgibbon said: "The superwealthy are concentrated in London and South East.

"But there are pockets of wealth across the country generating jobs to maintain lots of high income households."