The happiest and saddest places in Sussex have been revealed.

An annual survey by the Office for National Statistics has shed light on how happy people felt in each council area of the county in the year ending March 2023.

Participants were asked to rate out of ten how they felt the day before in terms of their life satisfaction, how worthwhile they thought their life was, how happy they felt and how anxious they felt.

Nationally, the average was 7.45 out of ten for life satisfaction (7.54 in the previous year), 7.73 out of ten for feeling that the things done in life are worthwhile (7.77 in the previous year), 7.39 out of ten for happiness yesterday (7.45 in the previous year), 3.23 out of ten for anxiety yesterday (3.12 in the previous year).

Adur was the most miserable place in the county and in the whole country with an average score of 6.16 – a huge drop compared to the previous year’s average of 7.4.

Following close behind was Hastings and Eastbourne both with an average score of 6.6.

The happiest people in Sussex lived in Mid Sussex with the area recording an average of 8.

Arun, Wealden and Chichester all tied for the second happiest with a score of 7.6.

ONS said the proportion of adults in the UK reporting poor personal well-being (low life satisfaction, worthwhile, happiness and high anxiety) was highest among those self-reporting "very bad health", reporting a disability, who were separated, had no qualifications.

It also revealed that the proportion of women (26.6 per cent) reporting high levels of anxiety was significantly higher than for men (20.0 per cent) in the year ending March 2023.

There were no “statistically significant” differences in the proportion of low levels of life satisfaction, worthwhile, and happiness reported by men and women, however.

A greater proportion of adults aged 50 to 54 and 55 to 59 years reported low levels of life satisfaction (7.9 per cent for both groups) and low levels of happiness (10.3 per cent and 10.9 per cent, respectively). The greatest proportion reporting high levels of anxiety (25.1 per cent) were also those aged 50 to 54 years.

While the highest proportion reporting low levels of feeling things done in life are worthwhile (6.8 per cent) were those aged 85 to 89 years.