Still Happy After All Of These Years

Once again, this year, the personal finance website WalletHub has ranked Sioux Falls as one of top 15 happiest cities in the country. The site releases its report to coincide with International Day of Happiness, which fell on March 20th this year.

To identify the happiest cities, WalletHub compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities across 29 key indicators of happiness. Many of the criteria evaluated are directly related to mental and physical health, including things like adequate sleep, rates of depression, and participation in sports. With an 'Emotional & Physical Well-Being Rank' of 10 (and the best unemployment rate of all the cities analyzed), Sioux Falls came in at #11 on the list.

Here are some of the key findings:

Happiness in Sioux Falls (1=Happiest, 91=Avg.):

Overall Rank: 11th

• 57th – Depression Rate

• 9th – Adequate-Sleep Rate

• 69th – Sports-Participation Rate

• 1st – Unemployment Rate

• 43rd – Separation & Divorce Rate

Other cities in our region to rank high on the list include Minneapolis at #13 and Fargo at #16. Rapid City was ranked #36.