OHIO — Location can make a difference in someone's health, as a new report highlights. 


What You Need To Know

  • WalletHub, a personal finance website, released its annual report for the Healthiest and Unhealthiest Cities in America, and some Ohio cities are doing worse than others

  • Cincinnati was the healthiest Ohio city on the list, coming in at 39th place

  • The unhealthiest city in Ohio is Toledo, which ranked No. 164 on the list

WalletHub, a personal finance website, released its annual report for the Healthiest and Unhealthiest Cities in America, and some Ohio cities are doing worse than others. 

For its findings, WalletHub compared 182 cities, including the 150 most populated U.S. cities and at least two of the most populated cities in each state. Each city was ranked based on the following categories: health care, food, fitness and green space. 

Cincinnati was the healthiest Ohio city on the list, coming in at 39th place. It was the only Ohio city to make it in the top 100. 

Columbus followed at No. 110, Cleveland in 126th place and Akron in 132nd place.

The unhealthiest city in Ohio is Toledo, which ranked No. 164 on the list.

The top 10 healthiest cities were:

  1. San Francisco, California
  2. Honolulu, Hawaii
  3. Seattle, Washington
  4. San Diego, California
  5. Washington, D.C.
  6. Portland, Oregon
  7. Denver, Colorado
  8. Salt Lake City, Utah
  9. Scottsdale, Arizona
  10. Irvine, California

The top 10 unhealthiest cities in America were:

  1. Brownsville, Texas
  2. Gulfport, Mississippi
  3. Laredo, Texas
  4. Columbus, Georgia
  5. Shreveport, Louisiana
  6. Augusta, Georgia
  7. Fayetteville, North Carolina
  8. Corpus Christi, Texas
  9. Detroit, Michigan
  10. Huntingtown, West Virginia

For more details on the report, click here.