Aren't statistics great !!
Depends how you view "worst".
Ranked 112th out of 151 and the top 16 are all London centric areas. When you look at some of the areas lower than Staffordshire I don't think the situation is that bad. More recent figures would be good to understand how things have changed.
City of London 8,594.55
Tower Hamlets 7,014.38
Hackney 6,680.05
Lambeth 6,384.03
Hammersmith and Fulham 6,248.47
Islington 6,229.30
Camden 6,205.29
Newham 6,132.26
Southwark 6,123.79
Greenwich 6,005.70
Lewisham 5,950.43
Haringey 5,878.44
Kensington and Chelsea 5,873.91
Westminster 5,662.78
Barking and Dagenham 5,582.87
Wandsworth 5,581.40
Nottingham 5,308.52
Ealing 5,296.47
Birmingham 5,218.28
Hounslow 5,210.90
Waltham Forest 5,204.86
Enfield 5,194.02
Manchester 5,088.30
Brent 5,065.93
Liverpool 5,048.35
Barnet 4,988.36
Harrow 4,927.48
Slough 4,861.93
Coventry 4,861.52
Halton 4,857.53
Bradford 4,845.01
Rotherham 4,844.16
Knowsley 4,839.11
Wolverhampton 4,826.97
Hillingdon 4,820.35
Middlesbrough 4,798.05
Luton 4,784.38
Oldham 4,778.47
Sandwell 4,771.14
South Tyneside 4,750.00
Havering 4,726.54
Tameside 4,717.42
Bristol, City of 4,717.30
Kingston Upon Hull, City of 4,713.02
Newcastle upon Tyne 4,709.54
Hartlepool 4,702.90
Leicester 4,693.41
Rochdale 4,689.88
Blackburn with Darwen 4,688.62
Redbridge 4,668.11
Kirklees 4,648.67
Southampton 4,648.53
Walsall 4,642.52
Redcar and Cleveland 4,632.40
Bexley 4,613.18
Kingston upon Thames 4,601.91
Southend-on-Sea 4,601.23
Portsmouth 4,595.77
Wakefield 4,577.92
Durham 4,572.50
Croydon 4,559.18
Gateshead 4,558.95
Salford 4,551.24
Wirral 4,547.11
North East Lincolnshire 4,545.73
Derby 4,544.02
Leeds 4,537.68
North Tyneside 4,536.72
Sunderland 4,535.99
Bolton 4,535.72
Merton 4,534.27
Wigan 4,526.53
Doncaster 4,518.75
Stoke-on-Trent 4,506.90
Richmond upon Thames 4,506.89
Peterborough 4,490.03
Isle of Wight 4,488.97
Stockton-on-Tees 4,486.55
Lancashire 4,486.05
Darlington 4,485.82
Bedford Borough 4,466.29
St Helens 4,463.14
Dudley 4,459.29
Barnsley 4,459.18
Blackpool 4,458.91
Brighton and Hove 4,457.70
Calderdale 4,454.37
Reading 4,454.32
East Sussex 4,449.96
Cumbria 4,448.63
Sefton 4,442.55
Milton Keynes 4,439.99
Thurrock 4,432.35
Sheffield 4,428.53
Cornwall 4,396.58
Essex 4,393.08
Kent 4,367.49
Telford and Wrekin 4,367.31
Plymouth 4,364.35
Sutton 4,360.26
West Berkshire 4,359.00
Medway 4,351.77
Nottinghamshire 4,351.45
North Yorkshire 4,337.74
Bath and North East Somerset 4,335.73
Norfolk 4,333.80
Lincolnshire 4,329.10
Windsor and Maidenhead 4,324.81
North Somerset 4,320.96
Hertfordshire 4,320.12
North Lincolnshire 4,315.87
Staffordshire 4,309.98
Herefordshire 4,306.44
Torbay 4,305.25
Somerset 4,277.55
Hampshire 4,276.91
Oxfordshire 4,274.49
East Riding of Yorkshire 4,257.73
Derbyshire 4,245.28
Northumberland 4,243.62
Suffolk 4,241.49
Trafford 4,232.12
Worcestershire 4,231.27
Bury 4,229.64
Warrington 4,218.53
Wiltshire 4,213.15
York 4,209.24
Stockport 4,206.18
Gloucestershire 4,202.88
West Sussex 4,196.37
Northamptonshire 4,188.60
Solihull 4,187.80
Bracknell Forest 4,187.21
Dorset 4,166.53
Devon 4,156.18
Bournemouth 4,153.67
Central Bedfordshire 4,144.47
Cheshire West and Chester 4,128.72
Wokingham 4,125.28
Shropshire 4,112.55
Swindon 4,102.23
Surrey 4,096.45
Rutland 4,086.99
Bromley 4,082.33
Warwickshire 4,078.80
Cheshire East 4,076.77
Buckinghamshire 4,040.23
Poole 4,007.18
Leicestershire 3,994.63
South Gloucestershire 3,969.38
Cambridgeshire 3,949.94