WASHINGTON — Having high levels of stress is known to take a toll on the brain and the body, leading people to sleep less, feel worse, and struggle on the job. But does where you live factor in to the level of stress you feel? The free credit score website WalletHub.com released its list of the Most and Least Stressed States, giving Americans a glimpse at how their home address could be affecting them.
The study found that Alabama was the most-stressed state in the country, followed by Louisiana and Mississippi. In fact, eight states from the South made the top 10 for most-stressed states.
Minnesota was the least-stressed state, followed by North Dakota and Iowa.
The list was compiled by expert analysts who evaluated all 50 states and Washington, D.C. in four areas of potential stressors: Work-Related Stress; Money-Related Stress; Family-Related Stress; Health- & Safety-Related Stress.
Each category was graded by various weighted metrics — 33 in total — that accounted for 25 points per category.
For example, Work-related Stress metrics included how many average hours residents work per week, their average commute time, their job security, and the state’s unemployment weight.
Money-related Stress included median income, median credit score, and housing affordability. Family-related Stress included divorce rate and cost of childcare. Health- & Safety-related Stress included adults diagnosed with depression, suicide rate, and crime rate.
Total scores were then calculated for each state and ranked in comparison to one another.
WalletHub’s list of Most & Least Stressed States:
| Overall Rank | State | Total Score | ‘Work-Related Stress’ Rank | ‘Money-Related Stress’ Rank | ‘Family-Related Stress’ Rank | ‘Health- & Safety-Related Stress’ Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama | 56.91 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Louisiana | 56.22 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 5 |
| 3 | Mississippi | 55.62 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | West Virginia | 55.43 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 1 |
| 5 | Kentucky | 54.39 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 4 |
| 6 | New Mexico | 53.76 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 19 |
| 7 | Nevada | 52.74 | 6 | 20 | 2 | 21 |
| 8 | Georgia | 52.10 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 14 |
| 9 | Tennessee | 51.93 | 26 | 5 | 18 | 8 |
| 10 | Arkansas | 51.17 | 44 | 3 | 22 | 2 |
| 11 | South Carolina | 50.46 | 25 | 12 | 13 | 12 |
| 12 | Alaska | 49.67 | 1 | 42 | 27 | 13 |
| 13 | Florida | 49.60 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 22 |
| 14 | Arizona | 48.17 | 19 | 18 | 11 | 25 |
| 15 | Oklahoma | 47.63 | 37 | 28 | 14 | 3 |
| 16 | North Carolina | 47.26 | 14 | 22 | 15 | 30 |
| 17 | Ohio | 45.69 | 32 | 26 | 20 | 15 |
| 18 | District of Columbia | 45.64 | 35 | 14 | 1 | 50 |
| 19 | Indiana | 45.64 | 42 | 27 | 19 | 10 |
| 20 | Missouri | 45.33 | 38 | 24 | 23 | 11 |
| 21 | Oregon | 45.28 | 36 | 4 | 45 | 16 |
| 22 | Michigan | 45.19 | 33 | 30 | 21 | 9 |
| 23 | California | 45.08 | 10 | 10 | 41 | 42 |
| 24 | Texas | 45.07 | 17 | 39 | 8 | 20 |
| 25 | New York | 45.06 | 21 | 17 | 33 | 27 |
| 26 | Rhode Island | 44.85 | 30 | 23 | 31 | 18 |
| 27 | Maine | 44.09 | 28 | 19 | 46 | 17 |
| 28 | Pennsylvania | 43.63 | 22 | 31 | 25 | 24 |
| 29 | Delaware | 42.59 | 29 | 37 | 12 | 32 |
| 30 | Virginia | 42.14 | 8 | 48 | 17 | 39 |
| 31 | Idaho | 42.02 | 46 | 21 | 37 | 26 |
| 32 | Illinois | 41.89 | 11 | 35 | 32 | 37 |
| 33 | Maryland | 41.55 | 20 | 41 | 9 | 44 |
| 34 | Washington | 41.53 | 24 | 32 | 34 | 28 |
| 35 | Montana | 41.33 | 49 | 15 | 44 | 23 |
| 36 | Hawaii | 40.99 | 31 | 6 | 47 | 49 |
| 37 | Massachusetts | 40.42 | 27 | 34 | 28 | 41 |
| 38 | Wyoming | 39.82 | 13 | 51 | 30 | 29 |
| 39 | Connecticut | 39.52 | 15 | 43 | 38 | 33 |
| 40 | Kansas | 39.45 | 23 | 38 | 35 | 40 |
| 41 | New Jersey | 39.32 | 12 | 45 | 39 | 36 |
| 42 | Wisconsin | 38.41 | 41 | 36 | 36 | 34 |
| 43 | Colorado | 37.28 | 47 | 33 | 26 | 45 |
| 44 | Vermont | 36.27 | 39 | 25 | 50 | 47 |
| 45 | New Hampshire | 35.83 | 48 | 47 | 29 | 35 |
| 46 | Nebraska | 35.51 | 40 | 40 | 43 | 43 |
| 47 | Utah | 34.71 | 50 | 44 | 42 | 31 |
| 48 | South Dakota | 34.41 | 51 | 29 | 49 | 48 |
| 49 | Iowa | 33.66 | 45 | 46 | 40 | 46 |
| 50 | North Dakota | 33.16 | 43 | 49 | 51 | 38 |
| 51 | Minnesota | 31.07 | 34 | 50 | 48 | 51 |
WalletHub’s study included a panel of experts who answered questions on how to help Americans relieve financial stress and offered ways for parents especially to bring more calm into the household.
To read the study, click here.
Ironically, or not, the most stressful states are also the most obese… The culprit, elevated cortisol… our stress hormone… Many studies are confirming this finding world-wide for the obesity pandemic…
I’m going with “not” since the categories they used to reach their B.S. conclusions were listed.
This study has nothing to do with measured or surveyed levels of stress. It simply uses a bunch of statistics, like median income and divorce, which are at best merely tangentially related to stress.
We like fried food in Bama.If it don’t have grease dripping off it we don’t want it.
Good everyone keep thinking Alabama is so bad. We all love it here and don’t mind it being our little secret. SWEET HOME ALABAMA!! ROLL TIDE ROLL!! WAR EAGLE!!! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
We don’t all love it here. Bleh.
Agree! Yellow Hammer!
Sounds like some pure b.s. by someone with too much time on their hands.
Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa are the least stressful states. Could it have anything to do with the lack of a certain minority and the high crime rate always present when their numbers are very high in the population? Very large populations of that minority in those states tagged as the most stressful. No hate, just pointing out the obvious conclusion this study so pointedly ignores.
I lived in a small town in Iowa several years ago, and still keep up with news from there. 99% White, quiet, extremely low crime rate, beautiful friendly people, clean well kept town. I now live in Florida, and work at different locations throughout the southeast, most recently just outside of Jackson, MS. Jackson is 80%black, dirty, extremely high crime rate, crumbling infrastructure, high rate of HIV infection. Any country, state, county, city, town, neighborhood, apartment complex that is full of them turns into a hole.
No racist it has nothing to do with minorities and every thing to do with the 1% pitting the 99% against each other. Convincing you that education is bad, those people are bad, and blaming everything on everyone else! You are sick, uneducated and left behind because the 1% like it that way. Don’t worry as long as you are stupid you can have at least the black folks to look down on.
The stats are on his side. Or is math racist?
I dont believe it at all.
If your state was competing for SEC titles every year, you’d be stressed too. Big League.
Yep…..because the entire world revolves around your football team…..#RollEyes
You don’t get it.
On the contrary….I get it a lot more than these hillbillies because I didn’t marry my sister or my cousin.
Are you sure? You might want to check into ancestry.com. I have a sneaking suspicion that family tree of yours looks a lot like a flag pole.
You’re projecting. 23andme.com is doing a promotional event with Ancestry.com to provide tickets to Alabama games that ensure you’re sitting next to your closest blood relative. You should look into it……
Remember, the key to being witty is to be original. Your response ranks up there with “i know you are, but what am I” or the whole rubber and glue thing.
I’m surprised you can spell “original”…..let me guess, it must be because it’s on the KFC menu, right?
Don’t feed the Troll..
Did your mom have any kids that lived?
No, why would we be stressed about that when we know we will win practically every year? That isn’t stress, that’s happiness and joy.
Click bait.
The free credit score website WalletHub.com released its list of the Most and Least Stressed States, giving Americans a glimpse at how their home address could be affecting them.
I’d be really careful about any study conducted by a free credit score operation.
Of course about Bama. 2 picks in the endzone? I’d be stressed too.
Maybe we will get less snowbirds next year? Nah, that won’t happen. Go anywhere on the coast, Alabama, Miss., Texas, FL, and you will find all these people who hate the south in the months of Oct – March.
Someone has to pay your bills. You broke, sick, uneducated bottom feeders need those Yankee liberal dollars or you would be broke. Just think what you would have to do to survive on your social security disability alone. No Yankee liberals and your daughter would be pole dancing for their brothers like in the olden days.
we like you too.
Yeah, you liberal retards have brought us sooooo much civilization.
Yes important things like jobs, redden,writting and rithmatick. Things like sex with your sister is bad and no your daughter should not be pole dancing to support your oxy habit.
You ignorant WOP, stay your dumbass up north.
My ignorant WOP ancestors conquered the south. He marched with Sherman and conquered the south. That means I can go any where I want. PS I actually have a job so I can travel where I want. I am not reliant on My social security disability or my daughters pole dancing money. PS I am even reliant on my illegal oxy to cope with how hard it is to be a white man in America.
The South wasn’t conquered you ignorant Diego, the Conferate States Of America, a sovereign nation, was attacked illegally by the United States and Sherman and other non principled invaders used tactics that would make ISIS blush. Nothing to be proud of unless you have no honor.
Okay they surrendered and their army’s were defeated in the field their President Fled and my ancestor was a part of it. The slaves were freed and generational slavery was ended something that would make ISIS Blush. Evil was ended and I am very proud my ancestor was involved in the destruction of a society that said it was okay to treat human beings as if they were animals. Yes proud that my ancestor ended slavery in the United and we tried to finally full fill the Statemetn “all men are created equal”. PROUD AS HELL
So with the black devils rapeing, robbing and murdering more people each year than ISIS you are proud of your ancestors destroying a legitimate sovereign nation and turning black hell loose not only on the confederacy and our women and children but also on your own. In fact the crime rate for blacks in yankee land is much worse than it is down South, I call that just rewards.
I know white people never murdered anyone. Wait a minute white christian males tried to wipe out he Jews. A systematic state annihilation of entire races of people. Shit in your lifetime probably! So I guess all white people are mass murderers by your definition. I think the blacks were very easy on their oppressors. You don’t find many stories of unleashing the hell that a white guy would have done in retaliation. I know you are white and they were always so nice to others. Boob.
You have a serious aversion to reality don’t you?😄
Reality let me think!! I guess Jim Crow never happened. How are are you if you are my age you remember it clearly. What White Christian civilized folk didn’t try to systematically wipe out the Jewish race in Europe? Are you saying that did not happen? Again how old are you?? It may have happened in your life time. Pretending one race is more evil or lazy or one religion is more violent is just that fiction. History calls you a liar.
Brian, if you hate it so, why do you keep voting for Liberal moonbats?
Because unlike conservatives facts actually matter.
Hey Brian, your liberal HAG Hillary LOST. Still whining about it? That’s too bad. We Deplorables LOVE your suffering. It really makes our day!
I am not suffering. I am not a white man that cries about how hard it is to be a white man in America. I am doing just fine unlike the left behind deplorable.
and they all said thank you! I am so happy your racist ass never talks to me anymore. Even your mother is relieved.
Well, bless your heart. I can see you don’t have a southern man’s upbringing. You kiss your mama with that mouth? Of course we welcome all snowbirds for their liberal yankee dollars. They spend just fine. I was being a bit snarky. As for being uneducated, I guess you got me there. I just got through my junior year of college and quit to support my husband in his career. However my daughter has two degrees and works for an international airport. She speaks 3 languages and taught English in Germany. So, even though she cannot pole dance, I am sure she can make a living. My son is trying for disability however because he has brain cancer. Now, aren’t you so smart you made fun of my life.
A southern man’s up brining my age would have been taught that he could treat blacks badly because he could. Not that he was better but just because he was born white he was special. You don’t welcome you rely on the yankee dollars because you state sucks! Sick, Broke and poor you made it that way it wasn’t the liberals fault. Uneducated as a whole the entire region lagging the nation any measurement of wellness. I did make fun of your life pretending that white folks have it so bad in america.
My state sucked because it was run by liberals since the civil war. You need to get educated on who runs things and for how long. I think maybe you believe that democrats used to be republicans or some such nonsense. Our house and senate has been democrat run for over 100 yrs. Only recently did the republicans take control. How do you know anything about the south? Have you been here? Did you read about it in liberal news? For some reason we don’t have huge uprisings here or large outbreaks of riots. I wonder why that is? Could it be that we have learned the secret to getting along? Sure we have our problems and they are bad, but we are working on it. Solutions don’t come from name calling and back biting. Your posts are full of hate. Get a grip and realize that our blood is the same and we all belong to one race. The human race.
You state was never run by liberals. They were Dixiecrats! I know all about the south I live in the south and have lived all over the country and all over the world. What are you talking about no up risings remember the 1960’s America Citizens dying just because they wanted to vote. If I was white and raised in the south my southern home training would have taught me that was okay and fine!! (great manners) Solutions do come from name calling especially if that name is Racist. Especially if the entire political frame work is based on fiction. This fiction is so easy to spread because of the racist predisposition in many red states. I know the darkies were just fine until the Yankee Agitators got involved they were perfectly happy with third class citizen ship. They never complained because they would get killed. The funniest part about this is that the whites are so easy to manipulate. They allow the state to protect the 1% all the while they get sicker and poorer and lag the nation in every definition of well being. I know they all they need say is jebus and guns and those people and you happily disregard fact and accept fiction. Solutions come from facts but you don’t need facts you are a conservative and facts just get in the way!
Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder. As I said before, you are the one living in a hate filled world. Come join us in the human race. There is room for you here.
I have no chip on my shoulder I just shake my head at ignorance. I was not left behind I am doing fine. I don’t cry about how hard it is to be a white man in America. The Human race is everyone even the darkies so its time you joined the human race and stop pretending you are not a racist deplorable.
You are the ignorant. Calling me racist because of where I live without any knowledge of who I am as a person. I have been there before. That is reverse racism. Now stop trolling conservative sites and go where you think you are the smartest person in the room because believe me you are not.
My father was a Mississippi Delta cotton farmer for 51 years and we had 250 nigras living on the farm when I was born. They used to get a kick out of seeing my dad run the New York Jew rabble rousers off the plantation when they came to start trouble with the field hands. You seem to be like those scum he put in the road.
They laughed to his face because if they didn’t they he could have them killed. So proud Jim Crow!!! A true deplorable.
The reason the southern states are below the northern states in average income is because it is cheaper to live here and the Nigras bring the average down and draw checks off yankee tax dollars.
You only wish that was the case. Every measurement every single one the Southern Red States lag the nation. Income, education, health every single measurement for happiness. No the average income is lower because your state is an economic basic case. It is a basket case because deplorable like you love it that way.
After reading your semi literate trolling…you, clearly, are a happy person.
Very happy because I don’t cry about how hard it is to be a white man in America. I don’t shiver at night over fear of the Muslims. I don’t arm myself to the teeth because I feel some drug addled minority might be after me. I don’t live in fear and I surely don’t pretend history never happened.
#’s don’t make sense such as Arkansas scored 44 on work related stress when highest score is 25??? Not buying this study too much!
New Jersey in the Top 10- Now I know this is FAKE NEWS.
HaHa-Exactly! I wouldn’t live in Maryland or New Jersey if they gave me a mansion and a million bucks a year.
Nigga Please