Oceanside Among Best Cities For Keeping New Year’s Resolutions

OCEANSIDE, CA — Let's face it, most of us are not very good at keeping New Year’s resolutions. Some do better at certain types of resolutions while others don't even bother to make them.

According to WalletHub's report '2022's Best & Worst Cities for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions", where you live may influence how well you keep your resolutions. Before you blame yourself entirely for your previous lack of success, consider this: Your location may be setting you up for failure.

To determine where Americans are most likely to stick to their goals for 2022, WalletHub considered some of the most popular (and most commonly broken) resolutions to rank more than 180 U.S. cities based on their conduciveness to self-improvement. In each city, they looked at a total of 57 key metrics, ranging from exercise opportunities to income growth to employment outlook.

So how did Oceanside rank for the five primary types of New Year's Resolutions?

Turns out Oceanside ranks as the 3rd best city in the country for keeping Health-Related New Year's Resolutions and ranks 26th for keeping Bad-Habit Resolutions. However, our fair city did not fare as well in other categories.

• Oceanside, CA Overall Rank = 61
• City Total Score = 54.11
• Health Resolutions = 3
• Financial Resolutions = 144
• School & Work Resolutions = 147
• Bad-Habit Resolutions = 26
• Relationship Resolutions = 134

The cities that scored the highest and lowest included:

Top 3 Overall Scores went to Scottsdale, AZ, Seattle, WA, and San Francisco, CA
Lowest Overall Scores went to Newark, NJ, Gulfport, MS and Shreveport, LA

Looking for some help to keep your New Year's Resolutions? WalletHub asked the experts for insight on the challenges in keeping resolutions and tips on overcoming them.

Do you have your own tips for keeping resolutions? Share them in the comments below to help other Oceansider's keep theirs, too.