--- title: Top Cities for Fitness: Here's Where People Exercise the Most description: See the top 10 cities in America when it comes to exercise and fitness - and find out where your city ranks canonical: https://time.com/4944076/americans-exercise-map/ author: David Johnson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-19T04:01:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:29.701Z article:section: Health og:title: These Are the Cities Where People Exercise the Most og:description: See where your city ranks og:url: https://time.com/4944076/americans-exercise-map/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a6f2e53afa93ca4/698863d5cf40a8509ac3fb8c/two-people-running-jogging.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 7248 og:image:height: 4077 og:image:alt: two-people-running-jogging og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are the Cities Where People Exercise the Most twitter:description: See where your city ranks twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a6f2e53afa93ca4/698863d5cf40a8509ac3fb8c/two-people-running-jogging.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Are the Cities Where People Exercise the Most > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators. by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Sep 19, 2017 4:01 AM UTC  Young couple jogging Young couple jogging Getty Images by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Sep 19, 2017 4:01 AM UTC Exercise is on the rise among Americans, particularly among millennials, according to a [new report from Gallup and Sharecare,](http://www.healthways.com/2016-exercise) a health and wellness company. They found that 53.4% of Americans reported [exercising three or more times a week,](http://time.com/4626519/exercise-every-day-health-benefits/) a two percentage point increase from 2008, and a modest increase from more recent years. The new figure is based on surveys of 177,000 people nationwide in 2016. The city with the highest exercise rate was Boulder, Colo., where nearly 70% of residents say they exercise three or more times a week. Two other metropolitan areas in Colorado — Fort Collins and Greeley — also topped the list, at second and fourth place, respectively. Communities in California and Hawaii followed closely behind. “As you might expect, the communities with the highest levels of reported exercise are also among the communities with the highest wellbeing overall,” says lead researcher Dan Witters. “That reflects the [impact that exercise has on wellbeing](http://time.com/collection/guide-to-exercise/).” Enter your location below to see where your city ranks:  Gallup-Sharecare  Gallup-Sharecare Witters wasn’t surprised by the cities atop the list: “Boulder has a very tangible culture of wellbeing, lots of bike paths, lots of built structure that makes the healthy choice the easy choice.” He says the same is true about almost every other high-ranking community. “These are places that have invested in walkability, [green spaces](http://time.com/4881665/green-spaces-nature-happiness/) and public areas where people can get together and move — all things that have proven to increase the chance of lots of people exercising in your area,” he says. [Boulder’s affluence is also a factor](https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2014/08/28/boulder-dubbed-the-most-affluent-medium-sized-city.html), explains Witters, as higher-income people report exercising more often, according to demographic data. Higher income [is linked with better health literacy](https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/49116/2000178-How-are-Income-and-Wealth-Linked-to-Health-and-Longevity.pdf), health insurance and access to health care services and exercise facilities. The overall increase in exercise rates is driven in part by young adults ages 18 to 29, who are [exercising more than that age group did](http://time.com/4371185/what-millennials-already-know-about-growing-old/) 10 years ago. “The millennials are improving across a wide variety of health metrics since 2008, while all the older generations are kind of flat,” Witters says. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4944076/americans-exercise-map/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4944076/americans-exercise-map/"},"headline":"These Are the Cities Where People Exercise the Most","datePublished":"2017-09-19T04:01:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:29.701Z","description":"See the top 10 cities in America when it comes to exercise and fitness - and find out where your city ranks","url":"https://time.com/4944076/americans-exercise-map/","keywords":["Exercise","Millennials","fitness","health","Wellness","Wellbeing","interactive studio"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a6f2e53afa93ca4/698863d5cf40a8509ac3fb8c/two-people-running-jogging.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Johnson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a6f2e53afa93ca4/698863d5cf40a8509ac3fb8c/two-people-running-jogging.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"two-people-running-jogging","caption":"two-people-running-jogging","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/exercise/","name":"Exercise"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4944076/americans-exercise-map/","name":"These Are the Cities Where People Exercise the Most"}}]}] ```