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Wales Online
Health
Laura Clements

The happiest places in Wales have been revealed

People are more satisfied with life compared to last year an ONS survey has shown. Levels of satisfaction and happiness went up in Wales in the year ending March 2022 according to an annual wellbeing survey.

The ONS survey also showed anxiety ratings had fallen over the same period. When it comes to life satisfaction, people in Denbighshire reported being the most satisfied with a score of 7.71 out of 10. Cardiff had the lowest (7.24) although the ONS said because of the small sample sizes councils should not be ranked against each other.

The mean score for satisfaction out of 10 for Wales was 7.48 - up from 7.37 out of 10 the previous year. Meanwhile, the score for happiness had risen from 7.31 to 7.43 out of 10 in the latest year in Wales.

Asked if they were happy yesterday, people in Vale of Glamorgan reported the highest levels of happiness (7.71) while those in Rhondda Cynon Taf had the lowest score(7.06).

Wales also saw its anxiety rating drop from 3.41 out of 10 in the pandemic, to 3.17 out of 10 in 2021-22.

The analysis was taken from the annual population survey.

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