deprivation

This article uses a different methodology but comes up with the same findings, isolated coastal settlements are being slain economically by the virus. It tells us:

Coastal and ex-industrial towns are most economically at risk from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

Sky News analysis of the data for England and Wales shows that although some high-risk towns also suffer already high levels of social and economic deprivation, there is no clear correlation between deprived towns and towns hard hit by lockdown.

Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire is in the top five most at-risk towns

The research conducted by the Centre For Towns and the University of Southampton, and seen exclusively by Sky News, also indicates that Wales is worst affected, while the South East is faring best.

Half of the coastal towns are among the top 10% most at risk, and a third of ex-industrial towns.

The top five most at risk towns are coastal towns: Mablethorpe, Skegness, Clacton-on-Sea, Bridlington and Kinmel Bay.

And of the top 20 most at risk towns in the UK, nine were coastal and 10 were ex-industrial with only one, Peterlee in the North East, not listed as either.