10 of the happiest and most desirable places to live around Liverpool - including Formby and Heswall

If you are looking to avoid the hustle bustle of the centre but remain within easy reach of Liverpool, consider a home in the happiest towns and villages in and around the city.

With the range of options including hip and upcoming suburbs popular with families, quaint rustic villages, coastal locations and areas with thriving independent scenes the decision can be a tough one.

That’s where we come in. Barrows and Forrester have helped us to combine house price data around Liverpool with local authority scores in the National Happiness Index compiled by the Office for National Statistics.

The results have revealed a series of postcodes in and around Liverpool that are deemed the happiest and most desirable places to live, based on an overall ‘life satisfaction’ score.

Below are the top ten ranked places to live in Merseyside. For anyone thinking of selling up and moving out, we’ve also included how much property is likely to set you back there.