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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:27 |
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This is according to the second Halifax "Rural" Areas Quality of Life Survey, which tracks where living standards are highest in Great Britain's rural local authorities, by ranking local performance across key indicators of the labour market, the housing market, the environment, education and health.
In all 114 rural local authorities were identified and analysed in this survey. Data was gathered from sources including the ONS, DEFRA, the Met Office, the Department for Transport and the Halifax house price database.
It showed that Mid-Suffolk has the best quality of life amongst rural local authorities in Britain with some of the healthiest and longest living residents. South Cambridgeshire and East Hertfordshire follow Mid Suffolk in the top three rural areas.
House prices trade at a premium to the average house price in their region in 22 of the top 30 rural local authorities with the best quality of life; the largest premium being in Chiltern (£124,370). The East of England region has seven rural local authorities in the top ten. Market Harborough in the East Midlands has the best quality of life outside the south of England. Aberdeenshire and Monmouthshire have the best quality of life in Scotland and Wales respectively.
Fourteen of the top 30 rural authorities in this survey are also in the top 30 of the quality of life survey for all local authorities in Britain.
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