Want To Live Healthy? Move To This Texas City

Everyone knows things are bigger in Texas, in some places the peeps are healthier too. Of the top 10 healthiest cities in the United States of America, Texas is home to #2.

The lone star state wins again on a Forbes poll of healthiest cities in the United States of America. Forbes routinely ranks all kinds of things based on all kinds of different metrics.

For instance, Forbes also recently ranked the best employers in Texas. In case you happen to be working for a total jerk or something ...

The report ranked, "Cities With The Least Healthy (And Healthiest) Populations," using 2021 data from the City Health Dashboard for 46 of the most populated U.S. cities. Forbes used eight metrics to rank each city, such as the number of heart disease or opioid overdose deaths per 100,000 residents, the percentage of adults with diabetes or high blood pressure, and more.

The report primarily focuses on residents' physical health and how broad risk factors can impact why some cities are healthier than others. - mysanantonio

What City In Texas Is Healthiest?

The Forbes poll ranked cities all over the country and Austin, Texas took the #2 spot. The rest of the top 5 healthiest cities i the USA were San Jose, California (1), Seattle, Washington (3), San Diego, California (4) and Denver, Colorado. (5)

Forbes also ranked the least healthy cities in the USA. That top 5 was:

1. Detroit, Michigan
2. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
3. Memphis, Tennessee
4. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
5. Tulsa, Oklahoma

You can read the entire list and learn more about how Forbes reached their conclusions and made their list here.