What California City is Number One?
With employer-provided healthcare plan costs expected to rise between 8% and 9% in 2025, WalletHub today released its report on 2025’s Healthiest & Unhealthiest Cities in America. To identify the places where health is a priority, WalletHub compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities across 41 key metrics. The data set ranges from the cost of a medical visit to fruit and vegetable consumption to the share of physically active adults.
Healthiest Cities
1. San Francisco, CA
2. Honolulu, HI
3. Seattle, WA
4. Salt Lake City, UT
5. San Diego, CA
6. Portland, OR
7. Denver, CO
8. Minneapolis, MN
9. Washington, DC
10. Huntington Beach, CA
Unhealthiest Cities
173. Jackson, MS
174. Memphis, TN
175. Fort Smith, AR
176. Corpus Christi, TX
177. Huntington, WV
178. Laredo, TX
179. Columbus, GA
180. Shreveport, LA
181. Gulfport, MS
182. Brownsville, TX
Key Stats
- Overland Park, Kansas, has the lowest share of physically unhealthy adults, which is 2.4 times lower than in Huntington, West Virginia, the city with the highest.
- Laredo, Texas, has the lowest cost per doctor’s visit, which is 3.1 times less expensive than in Juneau, Alaska, the city with the highest.
- Portland, Maine, has the lowest share of adults eating fruits less than once daily, which is 1.6 times lower than in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the city with the highest.
- Garland, Texas and Columbus, Georgia, have the lowest average monthly cost for a fitness-club membership, which is 14.8 times less expensive than in New York, the city with the highest.