Wolverhampton named as one of the friendliest cities in the UK - but what do you think?
Wolverhampton is one of the most friendly and more welcoming cities in the UK, according to a new survey.
Nearly 3,000 people took part in the Unbroken Britain survey to find out how welcoming, friendly, polite, safe and happy residents in each city of the UK feel their community is.
Wolverhampton is used to coming out bottom of such surveys – but this time ranked in the Top 10 of two categories.
According to the results, it is the eighth friendliest city in the country, ahead of the likes of Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester and Oxford.
Residents were asked to rate on a scale of one to 10 on how they felt within their community, with the average score for friendliness in Wolverhampton at 7.12.
The score for how welcoming the city was came out at 6.94, placing Wolverhampton ninth in the country. The survey was carried out by the largest home credit lender in the UK, Provident.
Previously Wolverhampton has been judged harshly by such studies. In April, this year a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) ranked Wolverhampton as the fifth unhappiest place to live in the country.
The ONS asked people to rate on a scale of one to 10 how satisfied they were with their lives, to what extent they feel the things they do are worthwhile, how happy they felt yesterday and how anxious they felt yesterday.
According to the report, Wolverhampton has an issue with unemployment, with ‘employment overall is not especially great in Wolverhampton, with only 63 per cent of people employed’.
In 2015 Wulfrunians were deemed the most miserable people in the UK by a study by a think tank The Legatum Institute.
And most infamously in 2009 the renowned Lonely Planet guide branded it the fifth worst city on the globe. The travel bible said it was worse than San Salvador and Chennai, Arusha and Chetumal but better than Detroit, Accra, Seoul and Los Angeles.
