The Complete Well-Being List of All 50 States In America.

As you can see from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index for 2011 below, Hawaii tops the list and West Virginia rounds out the bottom.

Rank

STATE

1

Hawaii

2

North Dakota

3

Minnesota

4

Alaska

5

Utah

6

Colorado

7

Kansas

8

Nebraska

9

New Hampshire

10

Montana

11

South Dakota

12

Vermont

13

Maryland

14

Massachusetts

15

Virginia

16

Iowa

17

Washington

18

California

19

Connecticut

20

Oregon

21

Wyoming

22

Wisconsin

23

Idaho

24

New Mexico

25

Maine

26

Arizona

27

Texas

28

Georgia

29

New Jersey

30

North Carolina

31

Pennsylvania

32

Illinois

33

South Carolina

34

New York

35

Rhode Island

36

Louisiana

37

Michigan

38

Indiana

39

Oklahoma

40

Nevada

41

Tennessee

42

Florida

43

Missouri

44

Arkansas

45

Alabama

46

Ohio

47

Delaware

48

Mississippi

49

Kentucky

50

West Virginia


January-December 2011 Gallop-Healthways Well-Being Index




HOW DID GALLUP COME UP WITH THE DATA AND THE FORMULA FOR THESE SCORES?





Where Does Your State Rank?

This map from Gallop shows the Western and Midwestern states in America earned 9 of the 10 highest wellbeing scores, while Southern states accounted for half of the 10 lowest wellbeing scores.

Gallup US Map

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Listed by categories of large, mid-size and small, see if the city you live in made the top 10 in one of those categories here. SHOW ME THE RANKINGS

WELL-BEING SEGMENTATIONS BROKEND DOWN BY STATES

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