WASHINGTON — Detroit has been touted as being “America’s Comeback City” by some since declaring bankruptcy in 2013, but a 2017 study does The Motor City no favors in its revitalization efforts. According to WalletHub, Detroit is the unhealthiest city in America, as opposed to San Francisco, which got the top grade in a study of the country’s 150 most populated cities.
To reach their findings, WalletHub graded each city using 34 categories as metrics along with a specific weight for each category. The categories were split among four groups that accounted for 25 points each: health care, food, fitness, and green space. The higher the score, the healthier the city.
Categories considered in the study included mental health counselors per capita, cost of medical visit, and quality of public hospitals for health care; healthy restaurants per capita, share of obese residents, and produce consumption for categories under food; fitness clubs per capita, weight loss centers per capital, and share of residents who engage in any physical activity for categories in fitness; and quality of parks, bike score, and walking trails per capita among the categories for green space.
The top five healthiest cities in America were (1-5): San Francisco, Calif.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Scottsdale, Ariz.; Seattle, Wash.; Portland, Ore.
The unhealthiest cities were (146-150): Shreveport, La.; Laredo, TX; Memphis, Tenn.; Brownsville, TX; Detroit, Mich.
The full list from WalletHub.com:
Overall Rank | City | Total Score | ‘Health Care’ Rank | ‘Food’ Rank | ‘Fitness’ Rank | ‘Green Space’ Rank |
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1 | San Francisco, CA | 68.06 | 29 | 1 | 37 | 3 |
2 | Salt Lake City, UT | 67.50 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
3 | Scottsdale, AZ | 67.14 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 15 |
4 | Seattle, WA | 67.08 | 31 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
5 | Portland, OR | 65.16 | 49 | 2 | 18 | 10 |
6 | Irvine, CA | 63.96 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 14 |
7 | Huntington Beach, CA | 63.23 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 16 |
8 | Honolulu, HI | 62.67 | 8 | 5 | 53 | 11 |
9 | Washington, DC | 60.24 | 13 | 9 | 73 | 9 |
10 | Santa Clarita, CA | 59.67 | 10 | 38 | 44 | 1 |
11 | Tempe, AZ | 58.92 | 48 | 15 | 5 | 49 |
12 | Fort Lauderdale, FL | 58.87 | 45 | 17 | 14 | 21 |
13 | Fremont, CA | 58.82 | 21 | 14 | 35 | 18 |
14 | Boise, ID | 58.36 | 18 | 47 | 23 | 12 |
15 | Minneapolis, MN | 58.19 | 6 | 22 | 63 | 13 |
16 | Rancho Cucamonga, CA | 57.72 | 76 | 77 | 6 | 4 |
17 | Denver, CO | 57.65 | 38 | 13 | 22 | 27 |
18 | Lincoln, NE | 57.03 | 3 | 51 | 40 | 20 |
19 | Madison, WI | 56.99 | 16 | 33 | 38 | 19 |
20 | Orlando, FL | 56.44 | 94 | 8 | 19 | 55 |
21 | Atlanta, GA | 56.42 | 110 | 30 | 2 | 46 |
22 | Glendale, CA | 56.26 | 40 | 39 | 49 | 2 |
23 | Santa Rosa, CA | 56.25 | 92 | 20 | 50 | 5 |
24 | Plano, TX | 55.96 | 9 | 37 | 24 | 42 |
25 | Overland Park, KS | 55.76 | 1 | 88 | 16 | 95 |
26 | Vancouver, WA | 55.54 | 80 | 34 | 4 | 73 |
27 | Tampa, FL | 55.50 | 62 | 35 | 10 | 45 |
28 | Sacramento, CA | 54.66 | 67 | 12 | 66 | 22 |
29 | San Diego, CA | 54.61 | 53 | 23 | 41 | 25 |
30 | Oakland, CA | 54.41 | 82 | 6 | 81 | 39 |
31 | Boston, MA | 54.06 | 33 | 28 | 51 | 31 |
32 | Austin, TX | 53.82 | 30 | 21 | 56 | 33 |
33 | San Jose, CA | 53.78 | 4 | 18 | 75 | 64 |
34 | Richmond, VA | 53.56 | 52 | 41 | 28 | 43 |
35 | Raleigh, NC | 53.55 | 11 | 44 | 15 | 84 |
36 | Peoria, AZ | 53.46 | 64 | 106 | 25 | 7 |
37 | Reno, NV | 53.17 | 113 | 19 | 29 | 36 |
38 | St. Louis, MO | 53.02 | 108 | 49 | 20 | 28 |
39 | Tallahassee, FL | 53.01 | 56 | 119 | 34 | 8 |
40 | Sioux Falls, SD | 52.76 | 2 | 120 | 21 | 93 |
41 | Springfield, MO | 52.56 | 15 | 123 | 26 | 37 |
42 | Miami, FL | 52.46 | 105 | 7 | 84 | 51 |
43 | Virginia Beach, VA | 52.28 | 24 | 66 | 45 | 35 |
44 | Pittsburgh, PA | 51.71 | 23 | 45 | 33 | 72 |
45 | Spokane, WA | 51.64 | 78 | 48 | 47 | 29 |
46 | St. Paul, MN | 51.50 | 19 | 60 | 61 | 38 |
47 | Gilbert, AZ | 51.44 | 22 | 75 | 8 | 80 |
48 | Chandler, AZ | 51.27 | 32 | 63 | 11 | 100 |
49 | Garden Grove, CA | 51.23 | 36 | 25 | 88 | 67 |
50 | Long Beach, CA | 51.07 | 51 | 24 | 80 | 40 |
51 | Pembroke Pines, FL | 50.56 | 25 | 71 | 27 | 123 |
52 | Rochester, NY | 50.40 | 107 | 29 | 72 | 30 |
53 | Durham, NC | 50.32 | 58 | 58 | 36 | 62 |
54 | Cincinnati, OH | 50.28 | 119 | 26 | 31 | 68 |
55 | Colorado Springs, CO | 50.14 | 28 | 82 | 57 | 44 |
56 | Chesapeake, VA | 50.08 | 35 | 98 | 68 | 23 |
57 | Worcester, MA | 49.73 | 68 | 68 | 39 | 70 |
58 | St. Petersburg, FL | 49.72 | 66 | 65 | 30 | 66 |
59 | Anaheim, CA | 49.69 | 41 | 27 | 71 | 76 |
60 | Aurora, CO | 49.63 | 34 | 52 | 60 | 65 |
61 | Las Vegas, NV | 49.23 | 135 | 43 | 9 | 90 |
62 | Oceanside, CA | 49.13 | 73 | 93 | 32 | 83 |
63 | Grand Rapids, MI | 49.10 | 14 | 59 | 97 | 56 |
64 | Henderson, NV | 49.05 | 101 | 118 | 17 | 48 |
65 | Tacoma, WA | 48.96 | 109 | 54 | 42 | 77 |
66 | Albuquerque, NM | 48.52 | 42 | 56 | 69 | 58 |
67 | Buffalo, NY | 48.25 | 77 | 40 | 77 | 58 |
68 | Anchorage, AK | 47.82 | 100 | 55 | 99 | 26 |
69 | Yonkers, NY | 47.52 | 37 | 57 | 104 | 53 |
70 | Omaha, NE | 47.06 | 17 | 89 | 67 | 92 |
71 | Glendale, AZ | 46.79 | 79 | 87 | 86 | 41 |
72 | Knoxville, TN | 46.40 | 128 | 86 | 64 | 34 |
73 | Little Rock, AR | 46.23 | 57 | 122 | 52 | 63 |
74 | Modesto, CA | 46.20 | 122 | 104 | 54 | 50 |
75 | Los Angeles, CA | 45.95 | 70 | 32 | 109 | 78 |
76 | Des Moines, IA | 45.76 | 7 | 114 | 92 | 98 |
77 | Mesa, AZ | 45.66 | 71 | 78 | 46 | 112 |
78 | Providence, RI | 45.58 | 134 | 74 | 78 | 32 |
79 | Chicago, IL | 44.78 | 60 | 69 | 130 | 47 |
80 | Tucson, AZ | 44.68 | 121 | 70 | 65 | 81 |
81 | Charlotte, NC | 44.30 | 46 | 109 | 55 | 119 |
82 | Norfolk, VA | 44.15 | 98 | 79 | 110 | 54 |
83 | Jersey City, NJ | 44.15 | 55 | 31 | 136 | 94 |
84 | Baltimore, MD | 44.01 | 125 | 53 | 120 | 52 |
85 | Phoenix, AZ | 44.00 | 96 | 85 | 91 | 75 |
86 | Port St. Lucie, FL | 43.97 | 91 | 131 | 48 | 125 |
87 | Newport News, VA | 43.77 | 75 | 90 | 103 | 87 |
88 | Huntsville, AL | 43.72 | 123 | 117 | 70 | 60 |
89 | Santa Ana, CA | 43.63 | 95 | 50 | 119 | 91 |
90 | Philadelphia, PA | 43.42 | 126 | 46 | 131 | 57 |
91 | New Orleans, LA | 43.13 | 146 | 121 | 87 | 24 |
92 | Aurora, IL | 43.10 | 44 | 94 | 124 | 88 |
93 | Irving, TX | 42.91 | 103 | 72 | 111 | 99 |
94 | Fontana, CA | 42.90 | 133 | 95 | 83 | 86 |
95 | Lexington-Fayette, KY | 42.75 | 26 | 113 | 98 | 108 |
96 | New York, NY | 42.65 | 85 | 36 | 146 | 61 |
97 | Riverside, CA | 42.50 | 124 | 76 | 74 | 104 |
98 | Garland, TX | 42.50 | 81 | 62 | 106 | 114 |
99 | Nashville, TN | 42.42 | 54 | 105 | 101 | 96 |
100 | Greensboro, NC | 42.39 | 72 | 132 | 85 | 71 |
101 | Fort Wayne, IN | 42.11 | 47 | 135 | 62 | 101 |
102 | Lubbock, TX | 42.06 | 63 | 130 | 58 | 113 |
103 | Chula Vista, CA | 41.88 | 65 | 110 | 90 | 116 |
104 | Milwaukee, WI | 41.65 | 61 | 81 | 138 | 85 |
105 | Oxnard, CA | 41.55 | 111 | 80 | 135 | 79 |
106 | Kansas City, MO | 41.52 | 39 | 108 | 113 | 106 |
107 | Ontario, CA | 41.36 | 136 | 64 | 128 | 110 |
108 | Akron, OH | 41.05 | 74 | 99 | 132 | 89 |
109 | Grand Prairie, TX | 40.50 | 90 | 83 | 144 | 105 |
110 | Arlington, TX | 40.26 | 86 | 97 | 100 | 129 |
111 | Dallas, TX | 39.95 | 104 | 67 | 118 | 134 |
112 | Jacksonville, FL | 39.84 | 129 | 101 | 96 | 117 |
113 | Cape Coral, FL | 39.69 | 118 | 136 | 76 | 109 |
114 | Columbus, OH | 39.66 | 83 | 107 | 116 | 118 |
115 | Louisville, KY | 39.22 | 115 | 96 | 112 | 121 |
116 | Wichita, KS | 39.11 | 59 | 129 | 82 | 131 |
117 | Fayetteville, NC | 39.10 | 120 | 145 | 59 | 140 |
118 | Moreno Valley, CA | 39.03 | 137 | 100 | 142 | 74 |
119 | Birmingham, AL | 38.89 | 141 | 102 | 95 | 130 |
120 | Stockton, CA | 38.41 | 112 | 73 | 127 | 126 |
121 | Houston, TX | 38.37 | 87 | 103 | 114 | 138 |
122 | Cleveland, OH | 38.27 | 139 | 61 | 141 | 103 |
123 | Amarillo, TX | 38.15 | 88 | 138 | 121 | 82 |
124 | Fort Worth, TX | 37.88 | 106 | 91 | 108 | 146 |
125 | Winston-Salem, NC | 37.72 | 99 | 144 | 122 | 97 |
126 | Columbus, GA | 37.51 | 138 | 134 | 126 | 69 |
127 | Jackson, MS | 37.41 | 50 | 139 | 93 | 148 |
128 | San Antonio, TX | 37.34 | 84 | 112 | 115 | 142 |
129 | Montgomery, AL | 37.08 | 131 | 141 | 89 | 128 |
130 | Tulsa, OK | 36.97 | 89 | 125 | 102 | 136 |
131 | Fresno, CA | 36.92 | 132 | 111 | 123 | 122 |
132 | Chattanooga, TN | 36.91 | 144 | 147 | 79 | 102 |
133 | Hialeah, FL | 36.88 | 102 | 42 | 150 | 141 |
134 | Indianapolis, IN | 36.85 | 93 | 115 | 125 | 135 |
135 | San Bernardino, CA | 36.60 | 147 | 92 | 134 | 115 |
136 | Bakersfield, CA | 36.40 | 127 | 116 | 105 | 139 |
137 | Oklahoma City, OK | 35.78 | 69 | 126 | 129 | 137 |
138 | Mobile, AL | 35.61 | 149 | 148 | 43 | 149 |
139 | El Paso, TX | 35.29 | 116 | 137 | 117 | 124 |
140 | Baton Rouge, LA | 35.18 | 145 | 140 | 94 | 107 |
141 | Augusta, GA | 34.32 | 140 | 124 | 107 | 150 |
142 | Toledo, OH | 33.92 | 97 | 127 | 139 | 143 |
143 | Newark, NJ | 33.28 | 143 | 84 | 147 | 133 |
144 | North Las Vegas, NV | 32.69 | 142 | 133 | 145 | 111 |
145 | Corpus Christi, TX | 32.56 | 130 | 143 | 133 | 132 |
146 | Shreveport, LA | 32.44 | 114 | 149 | 137 | 147 |
147 | Laredo, TX | 30.65 | 43 | 146 | 149 | 127 |
148 | Memphis, TN | 29.77 | 150 | 128 | 140 | 144 |
149 | Brownsville, TX | 28.54 | 117 | 150 | 143 | 145 |
150 | Detroit, MI | 28.37 | 148 | 142 | 148 | 120 |
The WalletHub.com list also included a breakdown of best and worst cities for several of the categories, including the cities with the highest and lowest costs of medical care, highest and lowest premature death rates, and highest and lowest costs of memberships to fitness centers. They also break down the weighted values per category to fully explain their methodology.
San Francisco the healthiest city? Clearly STDs were not included in the metrics for this study.
…or drug use.
Or an overabundance of self absorbed liberal snowflakes.
Or urine and feces in the streets……
Fecal matter in all kinds of places it is not supposed to be. Another Leftie made contest made to measure for the Lefties to win. You would think they would get tired of their own self-aggrandizing? But that artifically elevated self-esteem requires lots of maintenance.
You should ask them if they are getting in shape for the trip to hell.???????
Hell is not that far from Detroit really (Less than an hour drive) It would most likely score higher than Detroit but not much.
ROTFLMAO
San Fransicko the healthiest !
Drugs, STD.s and aids must not have been included !
Has to be more FAKE news from the Lame Stream Media !!
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How can you ignore AIDS/HIV/STDs and drug addictions?
Healthcare is different from health
“Food” is at best subjective.
Green Spaces in Portland and San Francisco are often/always homesteaded by the vagrants and addicts and are all up unusable
STDs don’t cost nearly as much money as obesity and obesity related diseases. Everyone that’s overweight should be charged more money for insurance.
With all the nasty old STDs that are now drug resistant that’s a stupid thing to say.
The CDC isn’t calling the problem epidemic for no reason.
Joe says stupid things, ’cause he’s…
Free markets baby!! #’murica #MAGA
Most recent CDC estimates report ~$147 billion annual spending on obesity related illness. ~$16 billion on STD. Or roughly 10.9% of obesity spending. While epidemics of STDs may exist (as epidemic is regional), a pandemic of obesity exists (nationwide) sending health care costs skyrocketing. If you’re upset about paying for other people’s healthcare costs, you should be more upset passing a heffer on a hoveround, than a poor person.
Look at the increase in STDs. Obesity is not exploding like STDs
The word is spelled, Heifer.
Furthermore, the CDC, does NOT list AIDS as a STD. (thanks to the gay agenda)
Just fact checking, your post.
However, if you include HIV/AIDS treatments and related drugs?
The numbers, are astronomically higher.
Your sources (Webster) appear to be accurate; you got me there. My sources, (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2013-02-13/sex-diseases-cost-16-billion-a-year-to-treat-cdc-says?client=safari ) appear to accurate. I got you on that one. No gay agenda, just information.
Unless you have some counter evidence to support your claim….
At least obesity isn’t contagious.
I thought health insurance was affordable because of the Affordable Care Act.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/06/21/us-health-care-costs/%3Fsource%3Ddam?client=safari
On the macro it has. But when it gets repealed, free market should take over in earnest, and discriminate against lifestyle choices, like life and car insurance do.
Claptrap. Takes a lot of meds to cure that dynamo hum.
A food guzzler tax.
So, Joey, what STD do you have?
I’m gonna show restraint and not crush the softball you just lob to me.
Crush it with your participation trophy?
I would have paid to see a great response to that one lobbed over the plate. For as smug as his response was, it was begging to be responded to with cold and calculating humor.
“Here goes Happy from 9 feet. Uh oh! Here comes the putter throw! What’s this? A new, restrained Happy Gilmore.”
I love how his response also shows how oblivious he was to such an easy setup. Ironically what you are saying is statistically correct, and as a conservative myself, I don’t understand why pointing to the much greater problem of obesity is a big deal. Who cares what your political lean is if you are giving proper facts in the proper context. It doesn’t mean STDs aren’t a problem as you even noted, but saying that one thing is 10 times the problem as the other is actually a damn good point.
Additionally just in the realm of yo-momma jokes, you had a good dozen jokes that could have blistered as responses.
Have a good one brother.
I am a middle of the road pragmatist. So refreshing to hear from a voice of reason on the right. Thank you. I’ve been given the impression recently that all hard data contrary to one’s beliefs was disbarred from the Republican Party.
Well when Trump was elected, I was sent a giant bucket and told I had to carry water for him. I kept misplacing the bucket though, so they are very very angry at me. 🙂
As I get older, the hardness of the edges of my conservatism seem to smooth out. As I get more dedicated to my church I’m starting to understand what one of my associate pastors said about his politics. He said he was too conservative for liberals and too liberal for conservatives because he tries his best to follow what Jesus actually preached, and it’s at times anathema to a rigid left/right ideology.
Ironically though I feel like I can be friends with everyone because what you believe is less important to me than how you treat other people and there are truly decent people on both sides, and truly indecent people on both sides. I’ve found that politics is not as much a predictor of human kindness as many would like to pretend it is. I still consider myself more right than left though because of my economics degree pushing me towards the siren’s call of Adam Smith, Bastiat and Hayek.
I feel enriched from having made your acquaintance. Have a good one, and let me know how pragmatism works out for you. I find it not pragmatic enough. Ha!
That’s a big fat liberal lie.
Of course you are right about the cost of being obese but in this Scared New World you are not allowed to tell someone they are FAT. It might hurt their feelings.
They cost more: AIDS drugs are the most expensive. SF is filled with people taking billions of dollars of drugs.
A month supply of Odefsey costs around 3k, a 90 day supply of Complera costs about 7k. Hard facts, just check with your pharmacist.
Only a Brain Damaged LibTurd would believe a word that you just posted
or that is in this Article !
Joe, not many people on your side…baby.
So, you do not think they should HAVE TO cover them and their pre existing condition?
Nor was Mental Health included….
Mental Health is seriously a growing concern everywhere in this country and it’s sorely neglected.
Drug use…People altering their normal metabolism with chemicals comes with a price.
You are correct, however, it’s more than that. I work at a Children’s hospital and much of the mental health needs for Children (at least the very young ones) don’t always stem from drug use (unless it’s the effects of their parent’s drug use) and the abuse that comes from that.
The toxins are coming at them via food, water and air. Then they get toxic vaccines shoved in them. They don’t stand a chance and us adults let them be abused. We do NOTHING about this assault on them. Ignorance seems to be the devil’s sandbox.
Between you, “Booshcat”, and “DerRotMax”, you covered the reasons I thought that the list was BS. Thank you.
Nor insanity.
Old and retired people can’t afford to live there, they retire to cities and states with lower costs of living.
More importantly Fukushima Fallout was not included in the metrics of this study… Those Ocean currents do travel from from Japan to the Pacific West Coast of North America.
I lived in SF for over a decade…you have no idea how accurate your statement is. I know someone that was stabbed with a used syringe by a homeless illegal while walking home through the TL. Turns out they wound up contracting HIV. I personally saw more feces, needles, dopefiends and dead bodies in SF than I care to revisit. This piece of trash article is leftist insanity.
Not to mention the toxicity of the air. I left the Bay Area over 8 years ago for a place in the country. It took 3 months for the garbage my body had accumulated from the air there to exit out of my system. I will tell you how bad. My sweat literally stung my skin. Yes, that bad. People don’t know what healthy is until you get away from areas with heavy auto traffic.
Once again, another progressive liberal piece full of lies and clap trap babble. This is a cesspool city without a doubt. Over the last 20-years, we have saved approximately $8,000 and used those savings to visit other locations mostly outside the state.
Not to mention illegal aliens in a “sanctuary city” bringing in Tuberculosis and all kinds of diseases that were once extinct in America.
Minneapolis – another town full of illegal aliens festering with TB.
Ah the “comeback city”, Detroit, at the bottom again. Renaissancing for 65 years.
Detroit was once known as the “Paris of the West” because of its culture, art and architecture. Detroit at one time had the highest per capita income in the U.S. After 60 years of democrat control, it has been gutted and bankrupt.
Yep, I was born and raised there for 30 years.
The downtown area is roaring back….MAJOR revival! You get out of the downtown area and NOTHING has really changed…
Just hope you don’t have any car breakdown, or are purposely involved in accident on your way to or from downtown. Downtown is very safe, getting there and back to the suburbs is where the danger lies.
Yep!
Born and Raised near Rouge Park.
The hell you say! You mean having insurance doesn’t guarantee good health?! I’ll be damned. Being a healthcare professional in MI, I can honestly state that there are more enrolled in ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid in Detroit than most of the rest of the state.
Maybe Detroit will take a hint from Kalifonia and secede too. The rest of the State will be glad to help them pack. As long as they take Dearborn with them.
Amen. They could easily become an annex of Windsor. Would suit us non urban dwellers just fine!
Please don’t take Dearborn away. Burn it to the ground. Get rid of the filth and vermin. Make way for rebuilding for Mideast Christians!!
USS Independence used in Bikini Island atomic weapons test was towed and sunk off the coast of San Francisco. Bay Area women especially in Marin County have abnormally high rates of invasive breast cancer. Being a sanctuary city, San Francisco County has the highest case rate of tuberculosis. 3.5 times the national average. Also SF has higher than average occurrence of MRSA. And new cases of Zika are on the rise.
Super high abortion and feminista rate, making their parts shrivel.
San Francisco, Portland, Seattle…They may be physically “healthy”, but mental & social FREAKS. I prefer to chow down on some yummy Memphis BBQ any day and chat with normal people. But thats just me.
San Francisco….!??? I presume they’ve cleared out the stench of human sewage..!!?? Does the Kate Steinle family agree with this finding…??
Who funded the study… the LGBQT community…???
You got it!! Bunch of smarmy corksoakers and butt humpers. May they rot in hell
Just because SF has more mental health counselors per capita doesn’t make it a healthier city. In fact, you could argue that the fact that there is a market for so many more is indicative of the reverse.
Did anyone go to SF before writing this? Fitness clubs and walking trails? Look out for the needles.
Nah, this piece is utter trash. You know for fact the “author” never walked down Ofarell, Post, 6th or any of the other grimy streets (80 percent of SF).
Well, San Francisco’s stellar score is surely due to it’s population of illegals drawn there to bask in it’s “sanctuary city” glow, as well as it’s magnetic attraction to all the homeless who enjoy the freedom to defecate and urinate everywhere in public, unfettered by any city attempts to curtail it. That’ll bring good “health” grades every time.
Indeed! Because one always thinks of feces and used syringes as being synonomous with good health!
More fake news.
Judging by the well-thought-out responses to this word salad of a story, I think we can conclude that this is Fake News!
I think I would be a little skeptical of all those California cities listed there. Probably brought to you by the same people that had Hillary +4 on election night.
Good One!
You too Amos10
You wanna get bitc* slapped will?
Another famously questionable study, full of made up, skewed and distorted metrics to support an a priori conclusion. How much taxpayer funds were used to support the derelicts who composed this fable?
Spent eighteen months working in healthcare in Detroit. Forest most dangerous city in my experience. I have been in every State but three. Will never return to Detroit!!!
Didn’t enjoy the wonders of dieversity? Didn’t enjoy the african “culture”? How terrible of you! 🙂
Classic example of Liberalism at work. Every effort! Yes! Every effort failed!!
You wouldn’t recognize it!
Huh, it sure looks most of the top ranked cities in this study by WalletHub are also where most of their customer base is located, but that surely doesn’t have any impact on the study results, no way, right?
Total bullshit. These ignorant fools must have some gov’t funding. Money to waste. Taxpayers money.
No problem. All the folks in Detroit should simply illegally immigrate to Windsor Canada right across the border. They can have a better life and collect some nice benefits from the Canadian government. No problem right? right?
This was a private study put out by a personal finance company. My guess is that they have quite a few customers in the San Fran area and not so many in Detroit.
Makes sense – I have issues on quite of few of their ‘findings’. Just DELETE…
Most of the cities at the bottom of the list are highly dependent on welfare.
From working as a cashier I can tell you that when food is “free” people make very poor choices. When they are spending their hard earned money don’t have much of it, people tend to focus on getting the most nutrition for the buck…people on food stamps buy whatever they want. Most monthly food stamp allotments are about double what our average non-food stamp customer spends.
There is one notable exception…American senior citizens rarely have food stamps, and when they do the amounts are so low it is hardly worth it for them to swipe the card.
Yes, I can see how much you are getting in food stamps, along with your WIC and cash balances when you swipe your card.
No mention of mental health – I have a feeling frisco and seattle would be positioned much, much lower.
Try being a niggero in Chicago.
What would you expect it has been run by Democraps for 50 years that aint good.
It has nothing to do with the Democraps running the city.
Yes, it does. 20 years of Mayor Coleman Young (DEM) pulled the plug and sank the City!!
And “Soulman” Young is still idolized by the black residents (about 85% of the pop.) of the city even though he presided over the almost total disintegration of the city. If Young pulled the plug, Kwame slammed the coffin shut!!
Blacks destroyed the city of Detroit, not the Democrats. Blacks destroy everything they touch.
White trash like yourself is much worse. No racial barriers to overcome and yet you’re still completely worthless and toxic.
no score on human waste running in the streets?
There’s a reason why areas dominated by dark skins are dirty, dangerous areas. DIVERSITY means chasing out White people and destroying once fabulous cities.
salt lake city with the filthiest air during winter inversions? just because you have a lot of heath care facilities does not make it a healthy place.
Did they consider the street bums in SanFran. What about the feces,urine and used needles. What a load of crap. Healthy restaurants who defines healthy. I bet in SF it’s the t of the meal. Why not look at the health of the serfs and peasants that serve the wealthy.
SF??? I’m calling bullshit. Green space? Are you kidding me? Because of the gay population the std rate is huge. The drug addicts also raise the STD and AIDS rate. A huge homeless problem makes the sidewalks smell like urine and you have to be careful as to not step in HUMAN feces. And don’t think about leaving anything valuable in view in your car or it will be stolen. Who ever did this study needs to lay off the bong!
San Francisco scores high due to vigorous cardio workouts resulting from fleeing aggressive street people. Also the prevalence of brand new running shoes necessitated by stepping in human waste with the old pair encourages more frequent trips to gym. Reasonable meal portions due to queasy internal feeling from paying $4000 for a studio apartment. And most gay dudes are flat-out ripped.
This Fake News, the study was put out by a Personal finance and investment firm WalletHub.
Their customer base has a large percentage of silicon valley techies.
Its very unhealthy to live near n1ggas
Obviously an agenda driven ‘study’.
I believe, it’s run by Liberals, any city run by liberal is going down hill
This is totally subjective.
Is there any room in this “study” for objectivity?
Are you questioning the validity of a scientific study which has been compiled by WalletHub?
I’ll have you know WalletHub was instrumental in the planning of campaign stops and optimizing advertising dollars for the Crooked Hillary Presidential Campaign.
Thanks, WalletHub!
Is a high ratio of mental illness counselors per capita a plus or a minus in this phony study?
Is the security staff still being beefed up on the Golden Gate Bridge?
Are they expecting Crooked Hillary?
Apparently the feared increase in suicides prompted the increase during the election. With all the liberal histrionics I wouldn’t think the politicians are ready to cut the staffing increase just yet.
WAKE THE FORK UP PEOPLE! The study was put out by a Personal finance and investment firm WalletHub.
Their customer base has a large percentage of silicon valley techies. The study is just corporate propaganda to make their customers feel good about themselves and where they live. It’s just part of an advertising campaign.
Detroit is also one of the blackest cities in America…. I think if you analyze the list you’ll find the least healthiest cities are populated by blacks and Mexicans
Sounds like San Fran needs some diversity to bring its white privilege down to Detroit levels.
Whale biscuits. I live in Omaha and we are the testing grounds for restaurants so food diversity is over the top. We have bike trails, fitness clubs and the percentage of fitness to unfit in Omaha would be a zip code argument. How Lincoln Nebraska gets so much further up the list alone calls into question the entire process.
“Food” and “GreenSpace” appear to be weighted disproportionately; one’s access to “fitness” and “health care” should be more important, unless you think a person is not chiefly responsible for his/her own health.
Left out “most piles of human excrement per sq. ft.” as one of the parameters. SF runaway winner
“Gym memberships” may be higher in those cities, but that does not, I know this for a fact, translate into “gym use.”
They forgot to throw in the radiation levels from Fukishima in the San Fran data.
Might change the rating
YHGTBSM….. What a bullsh*$ study and waste of time….
BS Greenspace metric.
And food metric is really subjective.
LMAO so obviously flawed and biased.
Pissing in the streets and craping on sidewalks is very healthy.
What a total load of BS this list is. San Fran, Portland, Seattle? Yeah, talk about shooting your credibility in the arse at first glance…………….
San Francisco is a disgusting city.
WE’RE NUMBER ONE!!!!!
Glad we won something.
Congrats to the city to my south.
Well done Detroit!
the deep south?….Land of the fatties…and Gop governors
Looks like racial demographics plays a major part in this list’s rankings. Racist list?
My only problem with this survey is the points awarded for “green” spaces. That one is the only reason SF is above SLC when SLC clearly has better healthy outcomes. What good is rating how many green spaces you have if your fitness score is 37th.
Woopie we have green spaces, which apparently few are utilizing. It would be like rating a city based on how much exercise equipment was bought last year, not actual time spent exercising. Yes their can be a correlation, but it can’t be assumed. This is similar to the WHO ranking on healthcare including as a heavily weighted metric: Distribution of care. So a country with shitty outcomes is ranked higher than one without universal healthcare, because even though the outcomes are worse and the quality is worse, at least everyone has access to the shitty care…
LOL, obviously they have never been to SF. Apparently somehow, the authors do not relate cleanliness to health.
“Categories considered in the study included mental health counselors per capita…”
San Fran? Let’s see here. 5 for every resident?
That would be, an underestimate, for those whiney, diaper wearing, freaks.
And yes, you can see them, on every street corner.
all those mental health counselors in san francisco and yet the thousands of deranged mental cases still walk the streets urinating where they will and doing their drugs also at will and in public. What a joke of a study! Was the metric which included the mentally deranged and snowflakes deliberately overlooked so as to guarantee frisco the 1st place?
San Francisco — A crime-ridden bumfest with skyrocketing rents, illegals, drugs and urine-soaked streets.
Just look at the catagories for how they calculated this… that green space number is pathetic. Chicago is not a “green space” of any sort. They have long crowded trail by the lake… that’s it. All they calculated here is how much BS space (weight loss centers LOL!, fitness clubs per capita, quality of parks) WTF is this? This is no measurement I take seriously. Real fitness and health is measured by the room and distance of the path you stomp or roll on. Not rat cages with exercise wheels.
these result correlate highly with large minority populations.
I doubt San Fran gets a passing grade on mental health.
fake stats
I work at a food bank about an hour from Detroit and what I’ve observed is that those utilizing the facility are all overweight and are only wanting fast food. Fresh frozen meat is offered and is never taken. As a nurse, I take blood pressures for those requesting to have one done, and they are all bordering on hypertension. A few have very high blood pressures, do not take their prescribed bp medication and are severely overweight.
It is illegal to feed the animals in a park for the same reason it should be illegal to have government funded welfare. The beneficiaries become fat, lazy and unable to feed themselves without a helping hand.
This chart sucks. Don’t you know how to lock the header while we scroll through the data so that we don’t have to remember what each column is?
The study is not about health-it’s about accessibility of western medicine, parks and walking trails. Drug use is rampant in S.F. both legal and legal, so is eating disorders. Many people have to put up with the daily noise and congestion of redevelopment. Public transportation, when it comes, takes forever. Many are stressed out with the high cost of living. S.F. is a sick City.
These fiction reports are always a joke. Among other factors, Cleveland has a top 5 hospital system for the entire world and yet this report ranks them 141 in healthcare. Clearly the CCF didnt buy an add in this issue like the magazine wanted them to!
Not enough poor people in the Tenderloin area. Drugs addicts and queers not included.
Born and raised in Detroit… I loved that city!
Now when some one asks where I was raised, I simply reply, Shithole of the United States’
Duh! What would you expect from a 85% black city run by blacks? Have you ever read the JAMA study on the percentage of black women and men with STDs? Disgusting, but not shocking
What a crock.
I suspect that San Francisco also has its share of STDs…
Give me a break it either now or later. Wait until the end of the day and ask that same question as the button start to move down and the room gets warmer.
I always wonder if these West Coast liberal’s were get in such great shape for there trip to Hell.?????
Is there any particular reason why we should trust a WalletHub study?
I stayed out of Detroit for years when I lived in Oakland county. Once I strayed south across 8-mile road and was scared sh#tless.
Yeah, San Francisco is “healthy” if you don’t count all the vagrants, street people, drug addicts, etc. Not to mention the city ranks very low with per capita children so child illnesses are a much smaller subset to drag down San Francisco’s “health index”.
And it also looks like what the article is saying is the study emphasized health care “infra-structure” which is NOT a real metric of how healthy the population actually is because the assumption is if there are high-end healthcare facilities, food and amenities available, the local citizens would be healthier. I want to see a real independent study documenting that reality if that’s being assumed in this study case. Sounds like smoke-and-mirrors given the extremely high incidences of STDs and HIV infections in the city.
When your whole diet consists of flamin hot cheetos and “purple drank” these are not surprising results.
So having Homeless People, Human Feces, Pee and Vomit in the streets is Healthy, Count Me Out……
Counting comfort dogs on west coast planes is not politically correct.
This the biggest bogus study I ever heard. SF a healthy city? They have people defecating and urinating in the streets. They had street poles collapse from corrosion, from all the urine on them.
They have IV drug users dropping syringes all over. They have one of the highest rates in the entire country for HIV.
This study brought to you by unicorns and faeries who live in fantasyland.
Your data would also be factual if you included the racial characteristics. Detroit MI is about 84% Negro and if you add this to all the cities there may be a significant dependent variable in the data.
Clearly they only called those wealthy enough to afford to buy homes in over priced San Francisco. The city street signs are falling over from excess urine erosion. Sorry, but I’m not buying this conclusion.
So “healthiest city” is determined by how many psycho “doctors” there are?
Sounds like Wallet Hub is hard up for click bait.
Why isn’t Detroit ranked 1st in “green space”……..there are so many abandoned neighborhoods, that
nature has taken over whole swaths of the city….population went from 1.8 million in 1950 down to
700,000 in 2016…..with the trees, weeds, and urban wildlife(rats,blacks,etc)..there is plenty of
Green space.
Your comment is reprehensible, waymore.
Please repent, and treat others as you would want them to treat you.
It is reprehensible, as a black over 68 years old who was raised(and still lives) in the
South I know first hand what happened to Detroit. I have family who have lived in detroit
since the early 1900’s…and I know scores of blacks who migrated in the 50’s and NOW have returned to OLD DIXIE(God’s country). My father was an early civil rights leader,
who didn’t follow the communist branch of whites,blacks,and jews, that TOOK OVER
the Civil Rights movement just before MLK’s assasination. He predicted the outcome
that we see today and was labeled an uncle tom. We watched as liberal blacks
destroyed the best city in the USA for BLACKS. When Coleman Young took over he
removed conservative blacks who were business men…..these BLACKs were the first
to leave Detroit(not the whites). I could go on..but what is the point…what’s done is
done…
These rankings are based on left-wing metrics for “health”. What is “food” and “health care”? None of this is about how long people live or how robust they are in their different stages of life. San Francisco (proper) is so rich it will naturally have the best health care and expensive food. Those who live outside but work in San Fran probably won’t score so high on this (questionable) scale. NOTE the rich Scottsdale vs the not so rich Phoenix/Mesa. A lot of the people move to Scottsdale for health reasons, mayo clinic and cleaner/drier air. But, those people are not healthy by any means.
I’ve got a whole Bunch of Poll Numbers for you too….If you believe any of this-Horse-Shitt !
The methodology of this survey might be suspect. Understatement.
What a load of rubbish. Their weighting and category selection allows them to have whoever they want win.
golly. No wonder the homeless go to San Francisco.
But, what about where the really really rich are. You know, where they have their own private MRI and staff on standby and cardiac specialists on staff, and home IV clinics to receive transfusions of healthy blood from organically fed teenagers?
Classism I say.
Yep a working mans city is last and a freeloaders Paradise is #1 gotta love study’s. Just like Climate change you can make a study say whatever you want it to.
Briefly lived in SF and literally saw a guy sitting on the sidewalk shooting up heroin while I was walking to the grocery store. And a guy got dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase a block away. This was only a couple blocks from the Twitter HQ. Regularly had to sidestep defecation wherever I went. And it really didn’t seem that unusual.
This is BS lefty fake news.
They want to suck up to the bitch billonares in crappy old sf….
Baltimore at 84 ? More like 184.
Detroit– 85% black, run by blacks. What more do you need to know?
Unbelievably poorly designed study……more fake leftist “news”.
There is no such thing as a healthy city when you consider the geo-engineering (Chemtrails) which involves the spraying of the entire globe including weather modification using HAARP. There is no place to hide from the nano particles of barium, strontium, aluminum dioxide, and other toxins in our skies. No filtration can stop the contaminates that are too small to filter. The population is being slowly poisoned by not only chem-trails but our weaponized food system (processed and fast foods) with ingredients meant to make you sick, fluoride in the city water supplies and glyphosates in wells around the country from Monsanto round up weed killer (agent orange ingredients) (people must be weeds because it’s killing us too), mercury ladened vaccines, mercury fillings in our mouths. food dyes, hair spray, plastic water bottles with BPA a estrogen mimicking chemical sterilizing men. polyester clothing and so on. Until they stop spraying us healthy is an illusion. Eugenics is a reality. This is just sales pitch propaganda for realtors wanting you to move to SF and sell you land and housing in the most expensive place to live in the US….SF.
The top twenty are leftist turd farms, just like Detroit.
Used to love francisco It is now a dump with mental patients controlling the streets, not to mention the elite are light years ahead financially than the the working and middle class.
Detroit will never recover. It’s not possible, unfortunately. Once a city goes black, it never comes back.
something really skewed with this ranking system – Baltimore is a hellhole, from one end to the other. I drive thru it every month and pray i don’t get a flat tire, with all the potholes and run down sections of town. I imagined it was what Detroit looks like, from the photos i’ve seen of Detroit
Yet Baltimore scored a 44.00????
This is healthy the same way Michelle Obama’s ridiculous lunches were “healthy.” Trendy stupidity doesn’t equate to actual health.
Clearly they are not talking about mental health… San Francisco has more crazies per capita than anywhere else.
Bwahahahaha ….Riiiiiiight This is such Bravo Sierra. Sorry lefties, the gay lifestyle is the opposite of a healthy lifestyle. There’s a reason it’s known as San Fran Sicko. This is akin to the morons in Hollywood congratulating, honoring and giving awards to each other.
Washington DC? really. The cost per health unit has to be by far the highest in the nation, that is the amount of money the government spends per local versus the amount actually produced by that or collected by that local. Washington DC is is a disgrace. Liberals and Conservatives alike should be disgusted by what DC has become.
Completely arbitrary criteria…..some of the California cities mentioned are disgusting and full of gang members…
In the words of Frank Carter. It makes me violently angry when I see you alive
You’re a fucking mistake, you’re an embarrassment mate
You think you’re funny and you’re clever but you’re just a disgrace
I wanna hit you with the force of an asteroid from space
I wanna fall out of the sky right into your stupid face
I wanna smash you like extinction as if you life was just a waste
I wanna be a fucking dagger right between your shoulder blades
I fucking hate you #4
The science is cystal clear as global warming, eating anus and men sticking their manhood where another man defecates is not healthy. Obviously the study avoided lifestyle habits and STD’s
No one in their right mind would look at the data on STDs, drug and alcohol abuse, crime, homelessness and pollution and conclude that San Francisco is the healthiest anything, let alone at all comparable to Salt Lake City on any of those criteria.
San Francisco the healthiness, huh???
The extreme cost of living in San Francisco has made many people homeless.
There are homeless camps everywhere and the crime rate has soared.
Illegal aliens everywhere!
H1Bs everywhere!
These statistics are worthless!
Have a nice day…
Look what they used to determine “healthy”. What a giant load of GARBAGE this “study” is.
Detroit houses are now for sale on ebay in the .99¢ “buy it now” section.
That’s too expensive.
Detroit? Nothing healthy about getting shot from Dr. Thug.
what the hell is a Green Space Rank. I bet those places also have a high Safe Space Rank too.
Possibly the dumbest survey ever published.
Well Detroit and Memphis are near totally populated with dope smoking /Viggers, and Laredo and Brownsville are populated by fat illegal Mexicans, really would you expect anything different from dead last.
The air in Detroit contains a very large amount of heavy metals. Specifically lead and copper in large chunks traveling anywhere from 900 ft./s to about 3000 ft./s. Combine that with broken crack pipes and dirty needles that litter the ground, it sure impacts the health of a city.
Oakland at #30. The whole thing is a false wash.
Corruption from top down is why these once great cities fail. Drain the monkey swamp.
Dear Detroit: Call Chelsea. She wrote a book “Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?”. Of course a news report says she does not answer the question in the book, so you just know she is looking for a consulting gig (fees paid in advance, If I know the Clintons), and she is a Democrat. You can thank me later.
The criteria look very flawed to me: I don’t believe that the number of health clubs or number of weight loss centers correlates to overall health. In fact it could indicate the opposite; there’s a greater need for such amenities where physical fitness or weight is unhealthy. Norway might not have as many health clubs or weigh loss centers as a typical US city, but that wouldn’t make it a less healthy place to live. I think the fact that SF comes out on top by itself is an indication of errors in the studies’ premises. The criteria used over weight a consumptive society that purchases health indicators, and under values health in those communities where, say, outdoor activities that aren’t purchased aren’t counted. If every single person in a community hiked in the mountains every day, this study would weight them as being unhealthy if they don’t have a lot of fitness clubs or weight loss centers. Fail.