Healthiest Cities in America (2025 Rankings) – Wallethub Study

With employer-provided healthcare plan costs expected to rise between 8% and 9% in 2025, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2025’s Healthiest & Unhealthiest Cities in America, as well as expert commentary.

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	Unhealthiest Cities
1. San Francisco, CA	173. Jackson, MS
2. Honolulu, HI	174. Memphis, TN
3. Seattle, WA	175. Fort Smith, AR
4. Salt Lake City, UT	176. Corpus Christi, TX
5. San Diego, CA	177. Huntington, WV
6. Portland, OR	178. Laredo, TX
7. Denver, CO	179. Columbus, GA
8. Minneapolis, MN	180. Shreveport, LA
9. Washington, DC	181. Gulfport, MS
10. Huntington Beach, CA	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.

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A version of this post was previously published on wallethub.com.

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