Stressed Out Cities
CNNMoney’s ranking of the most (and least) stressed out cities by commute times, hours worked, crime, unemployment, poverty and more.
- Rank
- City
- 1 New York
- 2 Detroit
- 3 Los Angeles
- 4 Riverside/San Bernardino
- 5 Houston
- 6 Chicago
- 7 Miami
- 8 New Orleans
- 9 Atlanta
- 10 Memphis, TN
- 11 Newark, NJ
- 12 Las Vegas
- 13 Philadelphia
- 14 San Antonio
- 15 Birmingham, AL
- 16 Dallas
- 17 Washington DC
- 18 Orlando, FL
- 19 Tampa, FL
- 20 Louisville, KY
- 21 Baltimore
- 22 Phoenix
- 23 Jacksonville
- 24 Indianapolis, IN
- 25 Providence, RI
- 26 Camden, NJ
- 27 Boston
- 28 Portland, OR
- 29 Denver
- 30 Virginia Beach, VA
- 31 Austin, TX
- 32 Oklahoma City, OK
- 33 Nashville, TN
- 34 St. Louis
- 35 Charlotte, NC
- 36 Irvine, CA
- 37 Cincinnati
- 38 San Diego
- 39 San Francisco
- 40 Oakland, CA
- 41 Cleveland, OH
- 42 Seattle
- 43 Milwaukee, WI
- 44 Kansas City, MO
- 45 Columbus, OH
- 46 Sacramento, CA
- 47 San Jose, CA
- 48 Pittsburgh
- 49 Hartford, CT
- 50 Buffalo, NY
- 51 Richmond, VA
- 52 Minneapolis
- 53 Raleigh, NC
- 54 Rochester, NY
- 55 Salt Lake City
From gridlock to poverty to crime, residents in these cities have a lot to stress about.
Using statistics from government and non-profit sources, CNNMoney analyzed 15 different stress factors for 55 major metropolitan statistical areas and divisions with populations of 1 million or more.
The factors were then broken up into five categories: the economy and money, work, family, lifestyle and crime. All factors were normalized, grouped into categories, weighted and then added together to create an overall ranking.
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