GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – You may or may not personally agree, but Green Bay has cracked the list of America’s Least Stressed Cities.
A new survey by personal finance technology company SmartAsset has Titletown coming in at number 16, with a notable improvement in one of the nine metrics.
“Housing cost as a percent of income was down from last year, to just below 21%. That’s well below the Department of Housing and Development’s threshold for how much you should be spending on your housing costs.”
Financial Education Vice President AJ Smith notes where Green Bay did its best.
“The average commute time was the 55th shortest commute time out of 512 cities, at just over 18 minutes. The unemployment rate of 3.66%, that was the 50th lowest.”
Smith notes Titletown did lag in one area.
“The bankruptcy rate was .21%.”
In addition to Green Bay placing 16th, Appleton came in at number 34.
“The commute time in Appleton was the 38th lowest at 17.1minutes. Meanwhile, they ranked their lowest by coming in at 261st for divorce rate.”
Smith notes Green Bay ranked 40th in 2016 and 24th in 2015, the first two years of the study.
The nine metrics used were: number of hours in an average work week, average commute time, divorce rate, physical activity rate, entertainment establishments per 1,000 businesses, average hours of sleep per night, bankruptcy rate, unemployment rate, and housing cost as a percent of income.
Click here to view SmartAsset’s full study results.
