SALFORD IS THE FIFTH LEAST STRESSFUL PLACE TO PARK ACCORDING TO RESEARCH BY A LEADING CAR INSURER

According to a study undertaken by Admiral Car Insurance, Salford is the fifth least stressful place to park based on tweets related to parking.

Driving can be stressful, whether you’re stuck in traffic or looking for a parking spot. Admiral Car Insurance analysed more than 157,000 tweets about parking by UK motorists to find out where the most stressful London boroughs are to find a parking spot.

For each tweet, they applied the academic tool called TensiStrength to measure the stress levels and rank each location as having the highest percentage of stressed-out parking-related tweets.

Their analysis revealed that Salford is the 5th least stressful city in the UK to find a parking spot with only 21.7% of tweets about parking in Salford scoring as stressful on the TensiStrength scale. 

40% of the bottom 10 list is made up of North West cities (Carlisle, Salford, Preston, and Blackpool) meaning the North West is the least stressful region to find parking.

Glasgow is the UK city with the lowest proportion of stressed tweets related to parking (13.9%), making it the least stressful city for drivers to find a parking spot.

A stark contrast to the South which featured among the highest, with Plymouth taking the top spot as the worst place to find a parking space.

The tool 'TensiStrength' was used to estimate the stress levels in tweets, by analysing them on a scale of -1 to -5 (very highly stressed), based on the classification of words related to stress, frustration, anxiety, anger and negativity.   

The final rankings are based on the locations with the highest proportion of tweets that are classified as ‘mild stressed’ or higher (-2 to -5 on the TensiStrength scale). 

All cities within the UK were included within the analysis.

Data Source: https://www.admiral.com/car-insurance