SOUTHAMPTON is the 93rd most prosperous place in the UK - based upon how much people earn and how happy they feel.
That's according to the Legatum Institute, which describes itself as an organisation which intends to 'promote prosperity.'
Out of the 170 places included, Southampton ranks 93rd and Portsmouth 72nd.
The more rural parts of Hampshire however, fare much better. North Hampshire is ranked 13th, Central Hampshire 23rd and South Hampshire 35th.
Bournemouth and Poole come in at a lowly 134th and the Isle of Wight at 98th.
Sian Hansen, executive director at the institute, said: "The geography of prosperity index reveals that prosperity is about more than just wealth - it is about feeling that one's life is worthwhile.
"The data shows that Wolverhampton is the least prosperous part of the UK because its citizens report the lowest levels of satisfaction with their lives in the whole country.
"The index shows that while robust economic success can make an area prosperous, this in itself is not enough.
"Some of the most prosperous areas of the country are those where, regardless of their income, people have the opportunity to lead healthy, fulfilling and prosperous lives."
The most prosperous places in the UK:
- Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea
- Westminster
- Wandsworth
- Camden and City of London
- Eilean Siar
- Orkney Islands
- West & South of Northern Ireland
- Berkshire
- Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
- Shetland Islands
- Norwich and East Norfolk
- East Surrey
- North Hampshire
- West Sussex North East
- Oxfordshire
- East Cumbria
- Cheshire East
- West Sussex South West
- Outer Belfast
- Devon
- Cambridgeshire
- Mid Kent
- Central Hampshire
- Buckinghamshire
- West Cumbria
- Leicestershire & Rutland
- Mid Lancashire
- Dumfries and Galloway
- West Kent
- Belfast
- East of Northern Ireland
- Cheshire West & Chester
- West Northamptonshire
- South and West Derbyshire
- South Hampshire
- North of Northern Ireland
- Breckland and South Norfolk
- Edinburgh, City of
- West Surrey
- Perth & Kinross and Stirling
- Warrington
- Dorset
- South Nottighamshire
- Warwickshire
- Worcestershire
- Tower Hamlets
- Scottish Borders
- Hertfordshire
- North Yorkshire
- Shropshire
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Somerset
- South Lanarkshire
- East Sussex
- York
- Heart of Essex
- Wiltshire
- Ealing
- Isle of Anglesey
- Essex Haven Gateway
- Falkirk
- Darlington
- Hackney and Newham
- Bromley
- West Lothian
- East Kent
- Cornwall & Isles of Scilly
- Bedford
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Milton Keynes
- Telford and Wrekin
- Portsmouth
- North Nottinghamshire
- Barnet
- Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames
- Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees
- Suffolk
- Greater Manchester South West
- Gloucestershire
- Solihull
- Flintshire & Wrexham
- South Ayrshire
- Lambeth
- Central Bedfordshire
- Staffordshire
- Brighton and Hove
- Chorley & West Lancashire
- Swindon
- Harrow and Hillingdon
- Herefordshire
- Durham
- Lancaster & Wyre
- Southampton
- Lewisham and Southwark
- Glasgow City
- Leeds
- Conway & Denbighshire
- Isle of Wight
- Bradford
- North & North East Lincolnshire
- Redbridge & Waltham Forest
- Lincolnshire
- Monmouthshire & Newport
- Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton
- Haringey and Islington
- Northumberland
- East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire & Helensburgh and Lomond
- South West Wales
- East Lothian & Midlothian
- Peterborough
- Powys
- Plymouth
- Clackmannanshire & Fife
- East Lancashire
- Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan
- Essex Thames Gateway
- Kent Thames Gateway
- Bristol
- Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire
- Gwynedd
- Greater Manchester South East
- Coventry
- North Northamptonshire
- Swansea
- Calderdale and Kirklees
- South Teesside
- Bridgend & Neath Port Talbot
- Sefton
- Angus & Dundee City
- Sunderland
- Dudley
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Derby
- Bournemoth and Poole
- Wirral
- Greater Manchester North West
- Luton
- Thurrock
- Leicester
- Nottingham
- Walsall
- Birmingham
- Tyneside
- Medway
- Easy Ayrshire, North Ayrshire Mainland
- Stoke-on-Trent
- North Lanarkshire
- Wakefield
- Kingston upon Hull
- West Essex
- Barking and Dagenham & Havering
- Manchester
- North and West Norfolk
- Barnsley, Doncaster & Rotherham
- Sheffield
- Enfield
- Southend-on-Sea
- Torbay
- Central Valleys
- East Merseyside
- Greater Manchester North East
- Bexley and Greenwich
- Croydon
- Brent
- Gwent Valleys
- East Derbyshire
- Liverpool
- Blackpool
- Sandwell
- Wolverhampton
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