--- description: See how your state stacks up title: 50 States Ranked By Happiness image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [States](/tag/states/) ## States Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here Are the 50 States Ranked by How Happy Their Residents Are by [Jessica Roy](/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 24, 2014 11:00 PM CUT by [Jessica Roy](/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 24, 2014 11:00 PM CUT For the sixth year in a row, [Gallup and Healthways have released their well-being index](http://info.healthways.com/wbi2013 "undefined"), which quantifies just how happy each state is based on a series of criteria including “physical and emotional health, healthy behaviors, work environment, social and community factors, financial security, and access to necessities such as food, shelter and healthcare to create a composite well-being rank for each state.” Below is a chart with the 2013 rankings juxtaposed against the 2012 numbers. (h/t [Uproxx](http://www.uproxx.com/up/2014/02/50-u-s-states-ranked-miserable-residents/?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+uproxx%2Ffeatures+%28Uproxx%29 "undefined")) 50 States Ranked By Happiness ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9465/here-are-the-50-states-ranked-by-how-happy-their-residents-are/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9465/here-are-the-50-states-ranked-by-how-happy-their-residents-are/"},"headline":"Here Are the 50 States Ranked by How Happy Their Residents Are","datePublished":"2014-02-24T23:00:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:49:50.737Z","description":"See how your state stacks up","url":"https://time.com/9465/here-are-the-50-states-ranked-by-how-happy-their-residents-are/","keywords":["States","Happiness"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Roy","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","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":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/states/","name":"States"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/9465/here-are-the-50-states-ranked-by-how-happy-their-residents-are/","name":"Here Are the 50 States Ranked by How Happy Their Residents Are"}}]}] ```