In Numbers
Leicester is home to 350,000 people, and each year it is estimated that around 40,000 real Christmas trees are put up in houses around the city.
A report that assessed the average spend of Christmas lights and decorations for towns and cities in the UK revealed that Leicester was the third biggest spender per capita, spending an average of £588 per thousand people, over double the national average, and spending in total around £200,000 each Christmas.