2023’s Best & Worst Cities for Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions
With Americans’ top financial resolutions for 2023 being “to save more money” and “to fight back against inflation”, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2023’s Best & Worst Cities for Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions, as well as expert commentary. This new report complements WalletHub’s list of the top New Year’s Financial Resolutions for 2023 and the corresponding consumer survey.
To help Americans stick to their 2023 goals, WalletHub compared more than 180 U.S. cities across 57 key metrics. The data set ranges from exercise opportunities to income growth to employment outlook.
Best Cities for Keeping Resolutions 2023
| Rank | City |
| 1 | Seattle, WA |
| 2 | San Francisco, CA |
| 3 | Scottsdale, AZ |
| 4 | Salt Lake City, UT |
| 5 | Overland Park, KS |
| 6 | Irvine, CA |
| 7 | Fremont, CA |
| 8 | San Diego, CA |
| 9 | Austin, TX |
| 10 | Orlando, FL |
I have only been to one of the cities on this list, and that is Irvine, and I fell in love with it. I hope to add San Diego and other towns to my must-visit list this year.
Worst Cities for Keeping Resolutions
| Rank | City |
| 173 | Jackson, MS |
| 174 | Detroit, MI |
| 175 | San Bernardino, CA |
| 176 | Fayetteville, NC |
| 177 | Dover, DE |
| 178 | Huntington, WV |
| 179 | Augusta, GA |
| 180 | Gulfport, MS |
| 181 | Shreveport, LA |
| 182 | Newark, NJ |
I am shocked that one of the towns I love, Fayetteville, NC is on the worst list. I can’t wait to visit this city in the new year.
Best vs. Worst
- Irvine, California, has the lowest share of obese adults, 19.00 percent, which is 2.6 times lower than in Montgomery, Alabama, the city with the highest at 48.80 percent.
- South Burlington, Vermont, has the lowest unemployment rate, 1.50 percent, which is 5.3 times lower than Detroit, the city with the highest at 7.90 percent.
- Fremont, California, has the lowest share of delinquent debtors, 1.66 percent, which is 7.8 times lower than in Jackson, Mississippi, the city with the highest at 12.98 percent.
- Jackson, Mississippi, has the lowest prevalence of adult binge drinking, 11.10 percent, which is 2.2 times lower than in Madison, Wisconsin, the city with the highest at 23.90 percent.
- Fremont, California, has the lowest share of adult smokers, 7.90 percent, which is 3.7 times lower than in Cleveland, the city with the highest at 29.10 percent.
