How Happy Are You? Montgomery County Rated 25th Happiest In US

Montgomery County is the 25th happiest place in all of the United States, according to one new study.

The list was compiled by SmartAsset, a financial services company. It analyzed metrics like marriage and divorce rate, life expectancy, exercise rate, bankruptcy rate, unemployment rate, and poverty rate.

The county’s overall score on the index, which ranked all counties from 0 to 100, was 95.5. Loudon, Virginia led the nation with a score of 100.

Nearby Chester County, ranking 6th and scoring 95.55, was the only other Pennsylvania county to join Montgomery in the top 25.

Montgomery County made the list despite having a higher unemployment rate (7.1 percent) than most of the other counties on the list.

The study collected data on 978 counties around the nation that had a population of at least 50,000.

The south is perhaps the unhappiest region, containing 18 of the 25 least happy counties.

In 2015, the United States as a whole ranked as the sixth happiest country in the world in a similar study compiled by the OECD.

Image courtesy of SmartAsset.com.