This is the best place to live in the UK if you're a woman

Good schools, closeness to friends and family and cosy pubs? There’s a lot to factor in when choosing a new place to live, but to give us a helping hand, a new study has revealed the best places in the UK for a woman to live.

And you might be surprised about where comes out on top.

Forget trendy East London, East Dunbartonshire is the best place to live in the UK if you are a woman, according to research for BBC Radio 4′s ‘Woman’s Hour‘.

Female residents in the Scottish local authority, which borders Glasgow, reportedly have some of the best educational facilities, highest air quality levels and access to green space.

The area also scored well on overall personal wellbeing and income with the median hourly wage among women equalling £15.07 per hour (ranking 41st).

Using data from a number of sources, including the Office for National Statistics’ 2016 Annual Population Survey and the 2011 Census, researchers aimed to give a “holistic analysis of women’s quality of life.”

All 380 local authorities in the UK were measured across eight categories – income, housing, wellbeing, safety, education, life expectancy, environment and culture. They also factored in issues such as the gender pay gap.

Two of the best areas in the country for women to reside were in Scotland – while London hosts four of the worst.

Islington, in north London, was rated the worst place for women to live, ranking low for environmental quality, housing affordability and safety.

It also came in at second to last on the environmental quality domain, with particularly high pollution levels and limited access to green space.

And it won’t come as a surprise to learn that housing in Islington was among the least affordable in the UK, with the median house priced at over 16 times the local median income. The borough also ranked highly for crime, with 122 reported offences per 1,000 people.

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