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.
While Sioux Falls and Bismarck are relatively close to home, where does that put Minneapolis and St. Paul? Certainly our Twin Cities have seen their share of stress over the last two-plus years. A pandemic, the death and aftermath of George Floyd, Daunte Wright, and other instances of civil unrest contributed stress to many across the metro.
But, according to WalletHub, we’re doing just fine. Out of the 182 cities, St. Paul ranked 143 on the list, while Minneapolis came in at 164. Relatively speaking, we’re not stressed at all.
The metric that helped Minneapolis the most? Sleep. Yes, Minneapolis is the second-best city in America for average hours of sleep per night (South Burlington, VT was the best). Also helping Minneapolis were very low rankings in work stress (155), financial stress (154), family stress (154) and health and safety stress (141).
St. Paul did particularly well in family stress (159), and also with financial stress (126) and health and safety stress (121).
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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