PEOPLE in Bracknell Forest are less happy than they were a year ago, according to a new survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The annual survey asked people aged 16 and over across the UK to rate four areas of their personal wellbeing.
Three of the areas - their happiness, life satisfaction and sense of the things they do in life being worthwhile - are ranked on a scale from zero to ten with ten being the highest.
The average happiness score for respondents in Bracknell Forest was 7.55, above the national average of 7.52.
Overall, 77 per cent of people in Bracknell Forest ranked their happiness between seven and ten, meaning either high or very high, compared to 75.4 per cent in the UK.
People in Bracknell Forest have also been reporting higher levels of happiness as the years go by.
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