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Dayton Business Journal
Most stressful
zip codes in the U.S.
Where Does My Zip Code Rank?
How’s your day at work going? Well, we hope it’s not too bad,
considering how stressful things can be nowadays. Bills to pay, rent
that’s due, long commutes…it’s enough to make you want to tear your
hair out. Could things really be any worse?
As it turns out, yes, it could be much worse. Don’t believe us? Well,
here at the Movoto Real Estate Blog, we tend to be pretty good at
making lists, and it doesn’t stress us out too much, so, we decided to
make a list of the absolute most stressful ZIP codes to call home. Some
of them will probably be a bit surprising.
The most stressed ZIP codes in the nation were:
1. 44093, Williamsfield, OH
2. 38647, Michigan City, MS
3. 93640, Mendota, CA
4. 36776, Sawyerville, AL
5. 38617, Coahoma, MS
6. 37018, Beechgrove, TN
7. 39743, Crawford, MS
8. 77032, Houston, TX
9. 85172, Stanfield, AZ
10. 29915, Daufuskie Island, SC
Now, you’re probably thinking that there’s no possible way that some
little place in Ohio is more stressed out than your home ZIP. To find
out how we got these results, just head down to the very next section,
where we talk about our methods. If you’re curious about the 50 most
stressed out spots, you can check the chart at the bottom and see if
your home ranked.
Our Methodology
This isn’t our first national Big Deal List, but let’s go over how
exactly we do things for all you first timers out there. First, we made
a list of all ZIP codes in the nation that had available data, which
was a truly impressive 28,371 places. After that, we analyzed each
place using data from the U.S. Census Five Year American Community
Survey, in the following eight criteria:
Unemployment rate (the higher, the more stress)
Median household income (the lower, the more stress)
Percent of monthly income spent on rent (the higher, the more stress)
Monthly selected homeowner costs as a percent of income (the higher,
the more stress)
Percent of families below the poverty line (the higher, the more stress)
Average commute time (the higher, the more stress)
Percent of population without health insurance (the higher, the more
stress)
Mean usual hours worked per week (the higher, the more stress)
It should be noted that all unemployment figures we used were a
five-year average from 2008 to 2012.
From there, we ranked each ZIP code in each category from one to
28,371, with numbers closer to one being better rankings. Then, we
averaged each place’s rankings into one overall Big Deal Score. The
place with the lowest number for that score became our most stressed
out ZIP code...
Get more details plus check out your own zip code at the Dayton Business Journal
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