Most wellbeing strategy is built on a single national number. But wellbeing is not spread evenly. It varies sharply by where your people live, the health they are in, and the lives they are living. This index uses official ONS data to show the baseline, and the spread underneath it.
Score your own setup →How the UK rated its own wellbeing in the most recent official annual figures, on a scale of 0 to 10. All four measures worsened on the year before.
Across the UK, 23.4% of adults reported high anxiety, 8.9% reported low happiness, 5.7% reported low life satisfaction, and 4.5% reported low worthwhile. Those are the numbers behind the averages, and they are the people a benefits package is meant to reach.
Across the UK, 23.4% of adults report high anxiety. But that single figure hides an enormous spread. Select a group below to see the official proportion reporting high anxiety, against the national baseline. This is why a strategy built on the average reaches the average, and misses the people who need it most.
Each figure is the proportion of that group reporting high anxiety (a rating of 6 to 10 out of 10), from the ONS year ending March 2023 release. Figures are shown one group at a time because they are single measured estimates, not stacked or combined.
Wellbeing also moves by region. In the most recent annual figures, four English regions recorded a statistically significant fall in life satisfaction in a single year. A workforce concentrated in one of these regions started the year on a different footing to one that was not.
of English local authorities report higher anxiety than the national average. If you map your people's locations against the data, the odds are most of them sit in an area carrying more anxiety than the headline figure suggests. Read the analysis →
A wellbeing strategy designed for the national average is designed for nobody in particular. The people most likely to be struggling, those in poor health, the recently separated, women, people in the regions that slipped hardest, are exactly the people a generic package tends to miss. The job is not to spend more. It is to know where the risk sits and point the right support at it.
That is what we do. We broker your insurance benefits, and give your people the software to find and use them, so the support you already pay for actually reaches the people who need it. Paid by the insurers, so it costs you nothing extra.
Score your setup in two minutes →All wellbeing figures are from the Office for National Statistics, Personal well-being in the UK, year ending March 2023 (released 7 November 2023), drawn from the Annual Population Survey. People rate life satisfaction, worthwhile and happiness from 0 (not at all) to 10 (completely); anxiety is rated the same way, where a higher score is worse. As of October 2024 these statistics are designated official statistics in development while the ONS reviews the survey, and the annual release is currently paused, so this is the most recent complete annual picture. Data used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The local authority figure (65.5%) is from Alltoogether's own analysis of the ONS local authority estimates. This index will be updated as the ONS resumes publication.