Fremont least stressed city in America
Listen to this articleSan Jose, Irvine also cited as cities with easy living.
With workplace-related stress alone costing society more than $300 billion per year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Most & Least Stressed Cities in America as well as accompanying videos.
In order to determine where Americans cope best with their stress, WalletHub compared more than 180 cities across 39 key metrics. The data set ranges from average weekly work hours to debt load to divorce and suicide rates.
Most Stressed Cities
1 Detroit, MI
2 Cleveland, OH
3 Newark, NJ
4 Baltimore, MD
5 Philadelphia, PA
6 St. Louis, MO
7 Cincinnati, OH
8 Birmingham, AL
9 Wilmington, DE
10 Shreveport, LA
Least Stressed Cities
173 San Jose, CA
174 Cedar Rapids, IA
175 South Burlington, VT
176 Fargo, ND
177 Plano, TX
178 Irvine, CA
179 Overland Park, KS
180 Sioux Falls, SD
181 Bismarck, ND
182 Fremont, CA
Best vs. Worst
Fayetteville, North Carolina, Shreveport, Louisiana, Augusta, Georgia and Las Cruces, New Mexico residents spend the fewest annual hours in traffic congestion per auto commuter, 7, which is 23.4 times fewer than in Boston, the city where residents spend the most at 164.
South Burlington, Vermont, has the lowest unemployment rate, 1.70 percent, which is 5.3 times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 9.00 percent.
Fremont, California, has the lowest divorce rate, 10.22 percent, which is four times lower than in Cleveland, the city with the highest at 41.32 percent.
Burlington and South Burlington, Vermont, have the lowest share of adults in fair or poor health, 9.90 percent, which is 2.7 times lower than in Corpus Christi, Texas, the city with the highest at 26.90 percent.
To view the full report and your city’s rank, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/most-least-stressed-cities/22759/
