The annual Halifax ‘places to live’ survey [PDF] has just been published. Hart, in Hampshire, tops the list [PDF] as usual. Mid Sussex is the leading Sussex district, closely followed by Horsham district.

	Hart	Mid Sussex	Horsham	Brighton & Hove
District Rank	1	17	20	249
Weekly Earnings	843	728	734	647
Employment Rate %	80.1	81.4	82.9	71.2
Number of Rooms	6.3	5.8	5.9	4.6
Crime Rate	16.6	13.5	14.2	30.6
Population Density	428	423	249	3,336
Rainfall	746	858	838	824
Good Health %	97.4	96.5	96.5	94.7
Male Life Expectancy	82.9	81.9	81.5	78.7

Hart’s secret: a high earnings-to-rainfall ratio.