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Fremont Is America's Happiest City In 2024: New WalletHub Study
The study looked at 180 of the largest U.S. cities. Fremont came out almost 5 points ahead of its closest rival.
FREMONT, CA — Fremont has beautiful neighborhoods, excellent schools, amazing parks, top-notch employment opportunities, and both Mission Peak and San Francisco Bay to gaze upon. If you are content, you're not alone. WalletHub has just named Fremont the happiest city in America for 2024.
"Fremont, CA is the happiest city in America, and one contributing factor is that the city has the highest share of households with an income above $75,000, at nearly 80%," WalletHub analyst Cassandra Happe said.
"Money can buy happiness to a certain degree because a stable income is essential for a person’s physical and mental wellbeing," Happe added. "However, plenty of other factors affect happiness as well, and the happiest cities combine economic security with kind communities and conditions that are conducive to low depression rates and high life satisfaction."
In fact, to reach its conclusion WalletHub evaluated 29 metrics across three key dimensions: Emotional & Physical Well-Being; Income & Employment; and Community & Environment. See the full methodology.
"Fremont has the lowest separation and divorce rate in the country and the lowest share of adults who report having 14 or more mentally unhealthy days in the past month," Happe said.
Fremont's overall score is 74.16, far ahead of second place Overland Park, Kansas, which came in at 69.78.
Also making the top 10 are San Jose at number 3 and San Francisco coming in at 7.
See the full WalletHub report online.
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