Ranking stressed cities: St. Louis among most stressed in the country?

The plaza of the courthouse underneath the St. Louis Arch in Missouri, USA
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A new report from WalletHub looks at the most and least-stressed cities in the country.

WalletHub looked at 182 cities and ranked them based on several metrics such as work stress, financial stress, family stress and stress related to health and safety.

The most stressed cities according to the site? Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Gulfport, Mississippi. The least stressed include Burlington, Vermont, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Bismarck, North Dakota.

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Certainly St. Louis has seen their share of stress over the last two-plus years. But where does it rank in comparison to the rest of the country? St. Louis ranks 9th, with financial stress the leading cause of the high overall placement (3). Next is health and safety stress (28), work stress (39), and family stress (63).

As for the most stressful cities, Cleveland and Detroit were far-and-away the highest ranked (well above number three Gulfport, MS).  Cleveland ranked first in financial stress, and second in family stress and health and safety stress. Detroit was second, seventh and first in those categories.

Interestingly, Pearl City, Hawaii was first in work stress yet finished all the way down at 126 overall.

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