Detroit Most Stressed-Out City In U.S.: Report

DETROIT, MI — A new study shows Detroit is not only the most stressed out city in the country, most of it family centered. The personal finance website WalletHub’s analysis also showed Detroiters don’t cope with stress well.

Stress is inevitable and affects more than 100 million Americans, about a third of the country, according to the analysis released Monday. In small amounts, it can be a motivator, but when it becomes unmanageable, it can cost society more than $300 billion a year in health issues, lack of productivity and other problems, WalletHub said.

To arrive at its ranking, WalletHub analysts compared the 150 most-populated cities in the United States in the areas of work-related stress, money-related stress, family-related stress, health- and safety-related stress, and coping with stress.

For more on the methodology, go here.

Here’s where Detroit ranked in the five categories:

• Work-related stress: 10
• Money-related stress: 14
• Family-related stress: 1
• Health- and safety-related stress: 7
• Coping with stress: 2

Other top 10 stressed out cities, in order of cumulative scores, are Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; Cleveland, Ohio; Shreveport, Louisiana; Columbus, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Newark, New Jersey; and Montgomery, Alabama.

So where do you have to go to find the most chilled out people in America?

Here are the top 10, again in order of cumulative scores: Fremont and Irvine, California; Honolulu, Hawaii; Madison, Wisconsin; San Jose and San Francisco, California; Plano, Texas; Overland Park, Kansas; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and San Diego, California.

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