New Data Shows Which British Towns Are the Loneliest in Lockdown
Places with more young people have suffered the most
If you ve been following
Women s Health s latest campaign, The Loneliness Remedy, you ll be clued up on the startling reality of loneliness levels in this country, since the pandemic uprooted our collective lives in spring 2020. In Autumn, we surveyed over 2,000 of you, our readers, and the prevailing message was that you have seriously struggled with feelings of disconnection and isolation this year, with 79% of respondents reporting that they feel lonelier now than before the pandemic.
Now, new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown in which areas of Britain lockdown has inflamed the feeling the most. Largely, poorer, more urban areas with high volumes of younger people have suffered in the greatest numbers – higher unemployment is linked to higher loneliness rates – with wealthy, rural areas least impacted.