When your car give way down , your bill gets go down , and your alarm fails to go off all in one week , it probably seems like your own state of tenseness has nothing to do with the state you bechance to live in . But some state do lean to have more stressed population than others .
To rule out which ones , WalletHubanalyzed41 factors across four dissimilar types ofstress — work , money , family , and health and safety — and make each province ’s collective accent level on a shell of 100 . The finding do n’t exactly jibe with the idea that life is slow - moving and soft - go down South : Nearly all 10 of the most - stressed states are in the South or Southwest , including Louisiana , Mississippi , New Mexico , Arkansas , Kentucky , Alabama , and Oklahoma .
Louisiana come in first with just over 57 points , ranking third for work - pertain stress ( which covers things like average hours worked per workweek and unemployment pace ) and secondly for money - related stress ( think income , credit score , and housing affordability ) .
resident in Alaska , which clinched the 10th spot with about 49 points , do n’t seem to have much money- , family- , or health - related stress ; the DoS land at forty-sixth , thirty-sixth , and 23rd for those three category , respectively . Their work accent , on the other hand , is higher than any other state , largely due to small job security and long hours .
If you ’re looking to move somewhere mellow , your best bet is the upper Midwest . Minnesota , North Dakota , South Dakota , and Iowa are the four least - stressed states in the domain . Minnesota , whose stress grudge is less than 28 , has some of the lowest poorness and divorce rates , some of the highest credit scores , and an abundance of psychologist per caput . But you do n’t have to give up yourself to living in a cold climate if you want to settle down somewhere calm — Hawaii ranked seventh , and temperate Maryland rounded out the top 10 .
Take a facial expression below to see if your state is especially harried or not , and see the full list of scoreshere .
Most-Stressed States
Least-Stressed States
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