--- title: America's Most Stressed Out City: New York, Detroit, LA Top List description: Based on commute times, work schedules, crime rates and more canonical: https://time.com/2921324/most-stressed-out-cities/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-25T16:46:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:09.735Z og:title: These Are America's Most Stressed-Out Cities og:description: Based on commute times, work schedules, crime rates and more og:url: https://time.com/2921324/most-stressed-out-cities/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are America's Most Stressed-Out Cities twitter:description: Based on commute times, work schedules, crime rates and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Are America's Most Stressed-Out Cities by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 25, 2014 4:46 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 25, 2014 4:46 PM UTC These days, it seems like just about every American is stressed for one reason or another. But which areas of the U.S. are home to the _most_ stressed-out people? CNNMoney teamed with the American Psychological Association to [answer that question](http://money.cnn.com/pf/stressed-cities/2014/methodology/). They came up with the major indicators of stress in urban areas and then broke these factors down into the following categories: economy and money, work, family, lifestyle and crime. The major indicators included poverty rates, commute times, health status, family size and crime rates. An overall weighted ranking system lead to the following list, with the Big Apple, not surprisingly, landing at the top: 1\. New York 2\. Detroit 3\. Los Angeles 4\. Riverside / San Bernardino 5\. Houston 6\. Chicago 7\. Miami 8\. New Orleans 9\. Atlanta 10\. Memphis Head over to CNNMoney to see[ the full list ](http://money.cnn.com/pf/stressed-cities/2014/full%5Flist/)of the most (and least) stressed-out urban areas. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2921324/most-stressed-out-cities/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2921324/most-stressed-out-cities/"},"headline":"These Are America's Most Stressed-Out Cities","datePublished":"2014-06-25T16:46:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:09.735Z","description":"Based on commute times, work schedules, crime rates and more","url":"https://time.com/2921324/most-stressed-out-cities/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Stress","U.S.","cities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2921324/most-stressed-out-cities/","name":"These Are America's Most Stressed-Out Cities"}}]}] ```