WalletHub compared states across four key dimensions to determine the most stressed states in the U.S.
financial burden of living paycheck to paycheckreleased a ranking of the "most and least stressed" states in America. The report compared the 50 states across 41 metrics, including: unemployment rate, income growth, rate of separation and divorce, mental health, and unaffordability of visits to the doctor.WalletHub also used data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more agencies to determine the results.
The WalletHub study also ranked the highest and lowest states in individual categories like average hours worked per week, average hours of sleep per night, job security, and percentage of the population living in poverty.Folks in Colorado get the most amount of hours of sleep per night, while West Virginians get the least. Connecticut and Florida are the top two states for job security and Iowa offers the most affordable housing.Mississippi took the No.
In the ranking, the Southern state had the highest rate of money-related stress, landed in fourth place for work-related stress, ninth for family-related stress, and seventh for health-and-safety-related stress.
The WalletHub study also found that Louisiana ranked third in work-related and health and safety-related stress, 18th in family-related stress, and fourth in money-related stress.In the WalletHub study, New Mexico had the highest divorce rate of any state and the second-highest crime rate per capita. It ranked third in money-related issues, first in family-related stress, 17th in health and safety-related stress and 26th in work-related stress.
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