Bath and North East Somerset local authority · 2022/23

Happiness, ranked

7.20

Mean happiness score out of 10.

Joint 23rd least happy of 149 upper-tier authorities

Mean self-reported happiness yesterday · Persons, 16+ yrs

England: 7.38 · 2022/23

healthcards · Bath and North East Somerset · 2022/23

What this means

Bath and North East Somerset is joint 23rd least happy of 149 upper-tier authorities, based on a mean self-reported happiness score of 7.20 out of 10 in 2022/23. England scored 7.38.

England mean: 7.38 out of 10. The rank is derived from survey point estimates, not an official ONS league table.

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Source & provenance

Indicator:: Mean self-reported happiness yesterday (ID ONS4-happiness-mean)
Source:: Office for National Statistics, Annual Population Survey personal well-being estimates
Area:: Bath and North East Somerset (E06000022), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
Period:: 2022/23; retrieved 2026-10-14 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:: Persons, 16+ yrs
Note:: Weighted survey estimate.

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Caveats

Weighted Annual Population Survey estimate for how happy respondents felt yesterday; it is not a clinical measure or a permanent trait.
95% confidence interval: 6.84 to 7.55 out of 10.
Derived from the published point estimates for 149 upper-tier authorities with data. Exact ties share a rank; 3 areas have this published value. Overlapping confidence intervals mean nearby ranks may not be meaningfully different.
The four ONS personal well-being questions are separate measures and must not be combined into one index.
Higher means a higher mean self-reported happiness score.

Missing or suppressed values are never shown as zero — every card above passed validation with a real numeric value.