Two Of The Happiest Cities In America Are In Illinois

What does it mean to be happy? Wow, that got really deep really quickly. But really, it's hard to determine how happy a person really is, let alone a group of people. WalletHub has decided to tackle the question, "what cities are the happiest in America?" They found that two of the happiest cities in the U.S. are in Illinois. The happier of the two is in the top 20 and surprisingly, it's not Chicago.

How Do You Know Which Cities Are Happy Or Not?

In order to determine the happiest cities in America, WalletHub compared 182 of the largest cities, including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state, across three key dimensions:

1. Emotional & Physical Well-Being
2. Income & Employment
3. Community & Environment

WalletHub evaluated these categories using 30 relevant metrics. Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing maximum happiness, duh. WalletHub then determined each city’s weighted average across all metrics to find each city's overall score and ranked each city accordingly.

Two Of The Happiest Cities Is In Illinois

WalletHub found that Aurora and Chicago are among the happiest cities with Aurora being the happier of the two.

Aurora ranked as the 19th happiest city overall while also ranking high in Emotional & Physical Well-Being and Community & Environment.

Chicago was named the 74th happiest city.

Any Happy Cities In Iowa?

In Iowa, the two cities that ranked as the happiest are two of Iowa's biggest cities.

Cedar Rapids ranked as the 64th happiest city (better than Chicago). Des Moines was ranked as the 77th happiest city which is pretty awesome.