58.4% of people in the UK feel close to people in their local area, 8.2 percentage points lower than the EU average. How else does our well-being compare with the rest of Europe?

The UK is more satisfied with their life than the average European but its population is way less connected to its community, according to an Office for National Statistics (ONS) report.

71.8% of adults (16+) in 2011 rated their life satisfaction as seven or more out of 10, which beats the EU average of 69.3%.

However, just 58.4% reported feeling close to people in their local area, which is the second lowest proportion of any country bar Germany (58.3%).

Cypriot people are the most likely to say they have close relationships with people in their neighbourhood, with 80.8% agreeing that they do. This means the UK is 22.4 percentage points behind Europe's most neighbourly country.

The report has more detail on Europeans and their neighbourhoods. For example, three quarters of people in the UK feel safe walking home alone at night in the area where they live. This is a similar proportion to Finland, the Netherlands (both 77%) and Ireland (74%).

Fewer than half of Greeks and Lithuanians could say the same thing at 47% and 45% respectively. 9 out of 10 Finnish people are satisfied with their accommodation compared to just 55.2% of Latvians.

Satisfaction with social and family life

As the chart below shows, the UK beats most of Europe when it comes to average rating for satisfaction with family life. However, it performs slightly worse on how satisfied its population are with their social lives and the percentage feeling they have support if they needed advice about a serious personal or family matter.

It could be worse though. You could be Bulgarian. People from the eastern European country gave the lowest satisfaction rating out of ten with their family life (6.7) and their social life (5.9).

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• DATA SOURCE: ONS



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