45 responses

UK counties: where I'd live, averaged

Would you live in each county or unitary authority? Every county or unitary authority is colored by its mean rating. This is a survey of the people who filled it in, not of the country.

Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon HullEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkDerbyLeicesterRutlandNottinghamHerefordshireTelford and WrekinStoke-on-TrentBath and North East SomersetBristolNorth SomersetSouth GloucestershirePlymouthTorbaySwindonPeterboroughLutonSouthend-on-SeaThurrockMedwayBracknell ForestWest BerkshireReadingSloughWindsor and MaidenheadWokinghamMilton KeynesBrighton and HovePortsmouthSouthamptonIsle of WightCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterShropshireCornwallIsles of ScillyWiltshireBedfordCentral BedfordshireNorthumberlandBournemouth, Christchurch and PooleDorsetBuckinghamshireNorth NorthamptonshireWest NorthamptonshireCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireSomersetBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBirminghamCoventryDudleySandwellSolihullWalsallWolverhamptonBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffieldCity of LondonBarking and DagenhamBarnetBexleyBrentBromleyCamdenCroydonEalingEnfieldGreenwichHackneyHammersmith and FulhamHaringeyHarrowHaveringHillingdonHounslowIslingtonKensington and ChelseaKingston upon ThamesLambethLewishamMertonNewhamRedbridgeRichmond upon ThamesSouthwarkSuttonTower HamletsWaltham ForestWandsworthWestminsterCambridgeshireDerbyshireDevonEast SussexEssexGloucestershireHampshireHertfordshireKentLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireNorfolkNottinghamshireOxfordshireStaffordshireSuffolkSurreyWarwickshireWest SussexWorcestershireAntrim and NewtownabbeyArmagh City, Banbridge and CraigavonBelfastCauseway Coast and GlensDerry City and StrabaneFermanagh and OmaghLisburn and CastlereaghMid and East AntrimMid UlsterNewry, Mourne and DownArds and North DownClackmannanshireDumfries and GallowayEast AyrshireEast LothianEast RenfrewshireNa h-Eileanan SiarFalkirkHighlandInverclydeMidlothianMorayNorth AyrshireOrkney IslandsScottish BordersShetland IslandsSouth AyrshireSouth LanarkshireStirlingAberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeCity of EdinburghRenfrewshireWest DunbartonshireWest LothianAngusDundee CityEast DunbartonshireFifePerth and KinrossGlasgow CityNorth LanarkshireIsle of AngleseyGwyneddConwyDenbighshireFlintshireWrexhamCeredigionPembrokeshireCarmarthenshireSwanseaNeath Port TalbotBridgendVale of GlamorganCardiffRhondda Cynon TafCaerphillyBlaenau GwentTorfaenMonmouthshireNewportPowysMerthyr Tydfil
  1. Never
  2. Probably not
  3. Maybe
  4. Yes
  5. Absolutely
The ranking
Highest average first
  1. 01City of Edinburgh3.95
  2. 02Bristol3.67
  3. 03Richmond upon Thames3.52
  4. 04Islington3.48
  5. 05Manchester3.48
  6. 06Cornwall3.44
  7. 07Hammersmith and Fulham3.40
  8. 08York3.38
  9. 09Brighton and Hove3.36
  10. 10Westminster3.35
  11. 11Cardiff3.33
  12. 12City of London3.32
  13. 13Devon3.32
  14. 14Camden3.29
  15. 15Kensington and Chelsea3.28
  16. 16Wandsworth3.26
  17. 17Glasgow City3.24
  18. 18Oxfordshire3.21
  19. 19Sheffield3.19
  20. 20Lambeth3.19
Where people disagreed most
Widest split first
  1. Westminster43% agreed
  2. Glasgow City38% agreed
  3. Greenwich36% agreed
  4. Swansea40% agreed
  5. Camden39% agreed
  6. Liverpool32% agreed
  7. Islington44% agreed
  8. Sheffield33% agreed
  9. Kensington and Chelsea40% agreed
  10. Causeway Coast and Glens41% agreed