(WFRV) – In a new report from WalletHub, experts compared all 50 states to decide which is the best to live in, and Wisconsinites can brag and cheer as their beloved Dairyland State ranked quite high.
WalletHub determined that Wisconsin is the No. 4 best state to live in nationwide, just ahead of its neighbor, Minnesota and behind New Jersey at No. 3.
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There were five major categories that states were scored on, with Wisconsin’s respective ranking listed in bold.
- Affordability (30)
- Economy (12)
- Education & Health (9)
- Quality of Life (12)
- Safety (8)
The categories were filled with a total of 51 sub-scores, combining each category into 20 points to create the full rankings.
Categories were scored with multiple weights on the sub-scores, as some were emphasized heavily, according to the WalletHub report.
Affordability’s major scorre was cost of living, which had the highest weight and median annual property taxes. Economic scores were mostly balanced, but the median debt per median earnings were the most crucial in the ranking, with a triple weight.
In terms of education and health rankings, the largest factors were high school graduation rate and the share of obese adults. Quality of life had multiple scores that were either double or triple weighted:
- Access to Public Transportation – Double
- Traffic Congestion – Double
- Restaurants per Capita – Double
- Fitness Centers per Capita – Double
- Weather – Triple
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The final category, safety, was scored with violent-crime rates, propert-crime rates, traffic-related deaths per capita and total number of law enforcement employees per capita. Much of the data was taken from the United States Census Bureau and several other agencies.
Click the following link to see the full list and to learn more about the report.
