In Numbers
Aberdeen is home to around 230,000 people, and each year approximately 27,000 real Christmas trees are put up in households in the city.
In a study that looked into how much towns and cities spend on average in the UK on Christmas lights and decorations revealed that Aberdeen was the 13th highest spender per capita, spending £421 per thousand people, more than the national average of £292 per thousand people, and totalling approximately £96,000 each Christmas.