How London says it feels

Four questions, asked every year since 2011, scored out of ten.

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SeriesPeriod or categoryValueUnit
Anxiety2011-123.42mean score out of 10
Anxiety2012-133.27mean score out of 10
Anxiety2013-143.18mean score out of 10
Anxiety2014-153.02mean score out of 10
Anxiety2015-163.04mean score out of 10
Anxiety2016-173.12mean score out of 10
Anxiety2017-183.13mean score out of 10
Anxiety2018-193.1mean score out of 10
Anxiety2019-203.18mean score out of 10
Anxiety2020-213.38mean score out of 10
Anxiety2021-223.28mean score out of 10
Anxiety2022-233.34mean score out of 10
Happiness2011-127.2mean score out of 10
Happiness2012-137.21mean score out of 10
Happiness2013-147.33mean score out of 10
Happiness2014-157.38mean score out of 10
Happiness2015-167.41mean score out of 10
Happiness2016-177.46mean score out of 10
Happiness2017-187.44mean score out of 10
Happiness2018-197.51mean score out of 10
Happiness2019-207.38mean score out of 10
Happiness2020-217.25mean score out of 10
Happiness2021-227.37mean score out of 10
Happiness2022-237.32mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2011-127.25mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2012-137.25mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2013-147.36mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2014-157.49mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2015-167.5mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2016-177.54mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2017-187.52mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2018-197.58mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2019-207.54mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2020-217.27mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2021-227.46mean score out of 10
Life satisfaction2022-237.35mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2011-127.51mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2012-137.55mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2013-147.63mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2014-157.72mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2015-167.72mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2016-177.74mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2017-187.73mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2018-197.77mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2019-207.74mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2020-217.6mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2021-227.68mean score out of 10
Worthwhile2022-237.6mean score out of 10

Methodology

The ONS's four personal wellbeing questions — life satisfaction, feeling life is worthwhile, happiness yesterday, anxiety yesterday — mean scores for London from the Annual Population Survey. Self-reported and survey-based. Anxiety runs the other way from the rest: high is worse, which is why its line sits apart from the others rather than being read as the best performer.

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