Stressed in USA: Stress levels across each state revealed

Monday, April 21, 2025

With stress levels rising across the U.S., reportedly driven by inflation, health concerns, and work-life imbalance, new research reveals which states are managing stress better than others in 2025.

Posted by LampLighter at 12:10 AM | 16 COMMENTS | permalink

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... Stress is not straightforward to define, and the survey takes a transactional approach. Generlly, stress can be considered as a state of worry or mental tension caused by difficult situations, and it is a natural human response to challenges and threats.

This is in the form of new data from Topture, which attempts to ranks all 50 U.S. states by stress levels using 31 key metrics. The findings show wide differences in how U.S. citizens experience and manage stress based on where they live.

To determine the most and least stressed states in the U.S., the firm compared all 50 states across five key dimensions: 1) Work Stress, 2) Financial Stress, 3) Family Stress, 4) Health & Safety Stress, and 5) Work-Life Balance. The sample considers only the state level data in each case and excludes specific cities within states.

Next, Topture evaluated the five dimensions using 31 relevant metrics, which are listed below with their corresponding weights. Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the lowest levels of stress.

Finally, the analysis determined each state's weighted average across all metrics to calculate its overall score and used the resulting scores to rank-order our sample. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 12:12 AM

Results are interesting.

... The top ten least stressed states are: ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 12:13 AM

I've been to 3 of the top 10. :-)

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-21 12:21 AM

@#3 ... I've been to 3 of the top 10 ...

I live in the #6 least-stressed state.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 12:28 AM

I would not have expected New Jersey to be on the list. Not my image of that state.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-21 12:37 AM

@#5 ... Not my image of that state. ...

Yeah, New Jersey has an identity issue.

It is nicknamed the "Garden State" because of the proliferation of farms in the state. It's not a major farming state, by any means. But for the population, it seems to hold its own.

And,in the summer, Jersey tomatoes. I know from experience over the decades, there is nothing like 'em.

But New Jersey seems to make the headlines more for it's cities than anything else about the state.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 12:59 AM

Rutgers tomato
en.wikipedia.org

... The Rutgers tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum), also known as the Jersey tomato or the Rutgers Select, was the most popular tomato variety in the world before the era of mechanized farming began a change in breeding for durability over flavor. It is an open pollinated beefsteak from the family Solanaceae with an excellent balance of acidity to sweetness and much flavor.[1] A true New Jersey tomato has both high acids and high sugars, and a thin skin. It lasts days at full ripeness, not weeks as modern, commercially bred tomatoes for automatic harvest and long-haul shipment, do.[2] ...

Yeah, back in the day, my parents would drive over the Outerbridge Crossing (and, notably, not called the Outerbridge Bridge) to visit the tomato farmers of New Jersey.

I have never, ever tasted a tomato so good as those Jersey tomatoes.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 01:04 AM

Yeah, New Jersey has an identity issue.

Might have had something to do with Tony Soprano and Snooki.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-21 01:09 AM

@#8 ... Might have had something to do with ...

Oh, there are some many reasons.

imo, most are self-inflected.

But Jersey tomatoes.

Major kudos to the New Jersey farmers.

Ten years ago or so, there was a local person who brought Jersey tomatoes into this town, and sold them out of their garage during the summer.

At times it was difficult to get into that driveway ...

But the effort to get those tomatoes was worth the wait to get into that driveway.

Jersey tomatoes. Ain't nothing like 'em.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 01:37 AM

Jersey tomatoes. Ain't nothing like 'em.

You will get arguments from San Marzano and environs, but they can be tariffed to compensate.

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-21 01:59 AM

@#10 ... You will get arguments from San Marzano and environs ...

Possibly.

But until I can buy those plum tomatoes locally, and at their peak flavor, I reiterate my comments.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 02:09 AM

Back to the topic at hand, and more from the article ...

... In contrast, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Nevada were the most stressed states overall. Each of these states is represented by Republican politicians. ...

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 02:12 AM

I can buy those plum tomatoes locally, and at their peak flavor

That's fair. Not much grows here locally. Our best stuff comes farmer truck stands from the west (fruit) in the summer and from the east (corn) in the fall.

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-21 02:14 AM

@#12 ... In contrast, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Nevada were the most stressed states overall. ...

That begs the question ...

Why do the people of those states seem to be so stressed?

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 02:14 AM

Louisiana, Mississippi, and Nevada were the most stressed states overall.

One of those is not like the others. Good question.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-21 02:21 AM

Last week Corky posted Bernie Sanders' speech from YouTube that Americans are stressed because of constant financial worry, an issue the oligarchs clearly don't have and are actually perpetuating: www.youtube.com

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-21 05:13 AM

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