Scoring happiness

ROYAL BOROUGH: Windsor and Maidenhead has been ranked ‘the happiest area in England’ according to new research by care experts.

Guardian Carers analysed more than 300 local authority areas in the country based on factors that contribute to ‘all-round happiness’.

This included access to green space, income, unemployment and crime rates.

These factors were added up to provide a score of the happiness of residents, with Windsor and Maidenhead ranked the happiest area in England with the best combined score of the eight factors (70.63).

The largest contributing factors to this are an unemployment rate of 3.6 per cent, while the borough is also said to be home to the highest average combined size of green space.

Salisbury, in Wiltshire, finished second, while nearby Wokingham ended up ninth on the list.