A recent study has shown that Chiltern residents have one of the highest credit scores in the country.

Only the City of London and Wokingham are ranked higher. 

The research comes from Moneybarn who has ranked the areas by sourcing the average score out of 100 of each local authority from Experian.

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The City of London, also known as the financial district, has the best credit score in the UK with 877.

Wokingham's average credit score is 864 with the Chilterns residents having the third-highest credit score with 862.

The South of England has the best credit score with the region of London and all Southern regions ranking in the top four.

Northern Ireland and Scotland are nestled in the middle, while Wales has the penultimate lowest average credit score.

See the full results here.