Hitting the recommended number of portion of fruit and veggie per twenty-four hours is a circle easy if you live in a city with a produce stand on much every corner . That say , when it make out to deciding howhealthya city is overall , access to fresh yield is far from the only factor .

Credit report card means WalletHub compiled data point from more than 170 of the most populatedU.S. city , and used a thumping 43 metric across four category — healthcare , solid food , fittingness , and green space — to analyze which unity are advance ( and losing ) the wellness game .

To say thestudyis extensive seems like an understatement ; the healthcare class , for instance , includes stats like “ hospital beds per capita ” and “ plowshare of adults who checked their cholesterol in the preceding five years . ” The intellectual nourishment category covers everything fromfarmers ' marketsper capita to a measure of Google lookup for terms relate to healthy feeding . Cities received a higher-ranking routine in each category and were awarded a cumulative score out of 100 .

All 43 things turn over , San Francisco is basically a beacon ofhealthy livingthat the rest of America should look to for direction . It rank first in both food and green place , fourth in fitness , and a still - tidy 29th in health care . Seattle , its neighbor to the north , fall in second place , and the top four were rounded out by San Diego and Portland , Oregon , strongly intimate that we should all reckon move to the nation ’s northwest corner .

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On the opposite ending of the spectrum is Brownsville , a metropolis at the southern peak of Texas that hugs the Mexican border and ranks 174th in food and healthcare and 173rd in fitness and green space . It ’s not the only Texas interpreter hanging out near the end of the inclination : The barbecue - lovingLone Star Statehas four other metropolis — Laredo , Corpus Christi , Lubbock , and Amarillo — in the bottom 20 . In fact , almost all the bottom 20 city are locate in southern states .

Scroll on to see if your hometown is tidy enough to have cracked the top 20 ( or unhealthy enough to be near the bottom ) , and tick off out the full list of 174 citieshere .

Healthiest U.S. Cities

Unhealthiest U.S. Cities

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