Personal-finance website WalletHub released a report on 2023’s Healthiest & Unhealthiest Cities in America. To identify the places where health is a priority, WalletHub compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities across 43 key metrics. The data set ranges from the cost of a medical visit to fruit and vegetable consumption to the percentage of residents who are fully vaccinated.
Lincoln, Nebraska ranked as the 49th healthiest city on the list… Omaha ranked 82nd. Click here to view the full report.
KLIN News spoke with WalletHub Analyst Jill Gonzalez, who said Lincoln ranked well in some areas but had some work to do on other metrics, “[Lincoln] does have some improvements to go. It actually ranked in the top 15 for both the health care and fitness category. So just have to work on that green space even more and get the more healthy food options around.” said Gonzalez.
The top and bottom of the rankings are below:
Healthiest Cities
1. San Francisco, CA
2. Seattle, WA
3. Honolulu, HI
4. San Diego, CA
5. Salt Lake City, UT
6. Portland, OR
7. Washington, DC
8. Minneapolis, MN
9. Denver, CO
10. Irvine, CA
Unhealthiest Cities
173. Corpus Christi, TX
174. Laredo, TX
175. Fayetteville, NC
176. Memphis, TN
177. Montgomery, AL
178. Augusta, GA
179. Columbus, GA
180. Shreveport, LA
181. Gulfport, MS
182. Brownsville, TX
A video breaking down this study can be viewed here: