Shropshire Star

Poll: Does living in Shropshire make you happy?

After new figures revealed that Shropshire is home to some of the happiest people in the Midlands, we want to know what you think.

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According to the Office for National Statistics, people living in the county, and neighbouring Powys, have above average levels of satisfaction with their own lives, self-worth and happiness,

At the other end of the scale, people living in Stoke-on-Trent had the lowest levels of self-worth and life satisfaction.

One in three people in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin reported very high levels of happiness and self-worth, with happiness levels being equally high in Powys.

Shropshire was the highest-ranked in the West Midlands in terms of self-worth and second for life satisfaction.

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