London, Oct 20: Residing in a well-off neighbourhood may add almost 14 years to your life, according to an ''atlas of death''.
Titled ‘The Grim Reaper''s Road Map’, the report found that the average age of death varied between 66 years in the Easterhouse area of Glasgow and 80 in Eastbourne, Sussex.
Produced by the Universities of Bristol and Sheffield, the study examined the geographical patterns of mortality rates around the UK, by compiling data on nearly 15 million deaths from 1981 to 2004, which was then mapped based on the age, location and cause.
For their research, the team divided the UK into more than 1,000 neighbourhoods, each approximately the size of half a parliamentary constituency.