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, with Washington DC coming in ranked #9 in the country.
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
- Washington DC came in ranked in the top 13 in three of the four categories used– food rank, fitness rank, green space rank.
- 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.
To view the full report and your city’s rank, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/healthiest-cities/31072