Most Expensive Places to Live and Die

Average burial and cremation costs for each location were sourced from the Royal London Funeral Costs Index

The fees and send-off costs were sourced from the SunLife Cost of Dying Report. The national average was used across the board as no regional breakdown in these costs were available.

The Average Funeral Cost for each location is thus the average of the burial and cremation costs plus the fees and send-off cost.

Average weekly expenditure by region and median gross weekly pay by local authority were sourced from the Office of National Statistics.

Average Disposable Income is calculated as the difference between the median weekly pay and average weekly expenditure.

The Average Funeral Cost is divided by the Average Disposable Income to find the number of weeks it would take the average person to save for the funeral. (If all their disposable income was saved over this time period)