Map reveals the CHEAPEST towns to live with best value on property, bills & travel – do you live in a sweet spot?

A MAP has revealed the cheapest towns to unrecorded successful that connection the champion worth for wealth connected property, bills and travel.

Settlements crossed England and Wales were analysed to find wherever the money goes the furthest for residents.

The database was created by comparing mean house prices, mean earnings, nutrient bills, energy bills, and commuting costs for "travel to enactment areas" (TTWA).

TTWAs purpose to bespeak areas wherever astir radical some unrecorded and enactment and which person comparatively debased levels of commuting, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Topping the Telegraph's database of TTWAs was the larboard municipality of Barrow-in-Furness successful Cumbria, located astatine the confederate extremity of the county.

The "underrated" town's above-average wages of £37,962 and debased outgo of surviving propelled it to the acme of the rankings.

Its TTWA, which includes overmuch of the confederate Lake District, has a beardown concern history and was the tract of the operation of Britain's archetypal submarine successful 1886.

Defence contractor BAE Systems retains a ample basal successful the portion to this time and it grew its workforce by much than 40per cent past twelvemonth up to 17,000 workers.

The institution had been awarded a £4bn declaration to physique nuclear-powered submarines anterior to this hiring boost.

Median salaries successful the portion sat astatine £37,962, somewhat higher than the nationalist mean of £37,340.

However, the large savings travel erstwhile location prices are factored in, with properties successful the Cumbrian portion costing conscionable £185,073 connected mean compared to £293,000 nationwide.

This makes its location price-to-earning ratio beneath five, compared to the nationalist mean which floats astir nine.

Barrow MP Michelle Scrogham called Barrow-in-Furness, the country she was calved successful and has lived successful her full life, "one of the astir underrated places successful the country".

She praised its "stunning" surroundings and "booming" section system arsenic good arsenic the beardown defence manufacture successful the region.

Barrow was joined by a scope of different bluish towns successful the apical 10 including Durham, Sunderland and Darlington.

All of these regions noticeably had affordability ratios of beneath six and monthly expenses arsenic a stock of net beneath 25per cent.

Expenses tin disagree greatly betwixt the North and South, with mean play groceries costing £50.30 successful the North East compared to £64.90 successful the South East.

This helped the North predominate the list, with adjacent the beauteous cathedral metropolis of Durham making the apical 3 connected the list.

While salaries are little than the nationalist mean astatine £28,864, location prices are importantly cheaper, coming retired astatine conscionable £134,670.

This gives it an affordability ratio of 4.7, 1 of the lowest connected the database - adjacent little than the crown-taker Barrow-in-Furness.

Durham's TTWA includes a substance of distant countryside arsenic good arsenic towns similar Bishop Auckland.

Wales had 4 entries connected the list: Merthyr Tydfill, Swansea, Wrexham, and Brigend which took up places betwixt 15th and 20th connected the ranking.