Reading has been ranked as one of the top five most 'zen' areas in the UK, statistics have revealed recently.

The scores, rated using data collected by nomisweb.co.uk and ons.gov.uk, saw Reading reach a score of 7.14/10 Zen score, placing the town as the second 'most Zen' in the UK.

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The data also revealed that Reading scored the highest in the country for life satisfaction and is also the place with the most searches for Yoga compared to its population.

Reading also scored third for the happiest towns/cities in the UK, scoring 7.62 out of 10.

A spokesman for Supplement Place, the company that issued the scores, said: "We wanted to find out which towns and cities are the most chilled-out places in the UK, crowning the winner as the country’s “Zen Capital”.

Reading Chronicle:

"To do this, we first built a list of the 50 UK towns and cities with the highest populations using official data sources.

"Next, we used ONS data to find how well the locations on our list ranked for quality of life factors such as happiness, life satisfaction and anxiety.

"We also used these figures to calculate the rate of change since the figures from five years ago, which were available in the same data set.

"We also found the number of annual Google searches for several keywords which relate to the ideas of peacefulness, calm, and “zen”, using Google Ads Keyword Planner.

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"Finally, we gave each town and city a normalised score out of ten for each factor, before taking an average score across all of the factors.

"This allowed us to produce an overall ranking and crown one location as the UK’s zen capital."

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