Rightmove Places – UK’s Top 10 places for Character & Personality

July 12, 2011 | Rightmove news | No Comments

This week sees the full launch of Rightmove Places, Rightmove’s new community website which gives you the chance to share and discover things about your place and get involved in the local community.

As part of sharing and discovering information about a place, Rightmove Places allows users to rate each location on a variety topics. Rightmove recently asked over 25,000 people to tell us how their local place rated on some these topics, and to celebrate the launch of Rightmove Places we’ll be revealing the results throughout this week.

Today we reveal the UK’s Top 10 places for Character & Personality…

character and personality

And the winner is... York!

York is packed full of Character & Personality and offers a wealth of historic attractions such as the York Minster, a world-famous gothic cathedral. The city is also enclosed within medieval walls, popular with walkers, and is likely to have helped York top the survey. Worcester (2^nd place for Parks & Outdoors) was also praised highly no doubt due to its picturesque cathedral and its position on the River Severn.

If you’re a home-hunter looking to take advantage of York’s character this 8 bedroom house with superb views may be of interest to you.

Do you have a different top spot for Character & Personality? Search for your own local area to rate it now – www.rightmoveplaces.co.uk.

How did we compile the rankings?

As part of Rightmove’s quarterly Consumer Confidence Survey, we asked over 25,000 people rate their nearest town or city on a variety topics such as Parks & Outdoors, Character, Shopping, Nightlife and Safety. Ratings were given on a scale of 1-5 and we averaged out the ratings by number of respondents in each location (places with a sample size of less than 100 respondents were left out) to give a league table of scores for each category. To celebrate the launch of Rightmove Places we’ll be revealing the winning locations in some of these categories over the course of the week. Find out which location was rated number one for Shopping in tomorrow’s blog.