Advisory Board April 2, 2025
On Monday, WalletHub released its 2025 “Healthiest & Unhealthiest Cities in America” list, ranking over 180 cities across the country.
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Methodology
To create the list, WalletHub compared 182 U.S. cities, including the 150 most populated U.S. cities and at least two of the most populated cities in each state, on 41 different metrics across four key dimensions:
- Healthcare, which includes premature death rates, mental health, physical health, and health insurance coverage for both adults and children (25 points)
- Food, which includes share of residents who say they eat healthy, inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption, and limited access to healthy foods (25 points)
- Fitness, which includes share of...