Where Yous Can't Afford To Live

The Guardian paper has created an interactive map which allows y'all to run across where y'all tin seat the axe afford to purchase a holding inwards England as well as Wales based on your annual income. Unfortunately y'all likely can't afford to purchase a identify inwards most of the country.

If y'all earn the national average wage inwards England or Wales hence y'all tin seat the axe non afford to purchase a identify inwards 93% of the country. That's correct y'all can't afford to a purchase fifty-fifty the smallest, worst kept properties, virtually anywhere inwards the entire country. Don't worry though, if y'all produce good as well as larn by to heighten y'all income to twice the national average salary hence y'all only mightiness last able to afford a identify inwards 1 of the country's poorest neighborhoods

Unaffordable Country is a choropleth map which colours postcode areas based on the affordability of properties inwards the area. Type inwards your average salary as well as the map volition exhibit y'all all the areas where y'all tin seat the axe afford to alive - or, equally is to a greater extent than likely, all the places inwards the province where y'all can't afford to live.

For example, where I live, inwards 1 of the poorest boroughs inwards the whole country, y'all would require to earn around 3 times the average salary to last able to afford a house. In other words y'all would require to last inwards the summit 5% to last able to afford to alive inwards 1 of the country's poorest boroughs.