West Sussex county · 2022/23
Happiness, ranked
7.38
Mean happiness score out of 10.
77th least happy of 149 upper-tier authorities
Mean self-reported happiness yesterday · Persons, 16+ yrs
England: 7.38 · 2022/23
healthcards · West Sussex · 2022/23
What this means
West Sussex is 77th least happy of 149 upper-tier authorities, based on a mean self-reported happiness score of 7.38 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:
- West Sussex (E10000032), 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.
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: 7.10 to 7.65 out of 10.
- Derived from the published point estimates for 149 upper-tier authorities with data. Exact ties share a rank. 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.