Once again, Scottsdale has been named one of the happiest cities in America, according to a new WalletHub ranking.<\/p>\n
In WalletHub’s study, Scottsdale was in the top five for one of the happiest cities in America, out of 182 cities, based on 29 metrics. Each metric fits into one of three categories: emotional and physical well-being, income and employment and community and environment.<\/p>\n
This isn’t Scottsdale’s first time being highlighted as one of America’s happiest communities. In WalletHub’s 2025 study of the happiest cities, Scottsdale was ranked No. 8 overall.<\/p>\n
Somehow, in the past year, Scottsdale has gotten even happier, moving up in the ranks to become the third happiest city in America.<\/p>\n
Here’s how it has improved what makes Scottsdale such a happy place to be.<\/p>\n
Scottsdale is ranked the third happiest city in America, largely due to more than 88% of adults in Scottsdale reporting good or better health, the third-highest percentage in the country, according to WalletHub. This placed the metro Phoenix city No. 11 for emotional and physical well-being of all the cities studied.<\/p>\n
Additionally, 87% of adults participate in physical activity, which is easy to do because of Arizona’s sunny climate, giving Scottsdale a No. 2 ranking in community and environment.<\/p>\n
Money has also been shown to provide happiness in Scottsdale, as about 65% of households in the city make more than $75,000 per year, with only 7% of Scottsdale residents below the poverty line in the past year, according to WalletHub. This overall wealth put the city at No. 14 in income and employment rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once again, Scottsdale has been named one of the happiest cities in America, according to a new WalletHub…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1034325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,79,1589,413915,13047,7600,9159,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,258,413914,413913],"class_list":["post-1034324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-economy","tag-phoenix","tag-positive-psychology","tag-quality-of-life","tag-scottsdale","tag-social-issues","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wealth","tag-welfare-economics","tag-world-happiness-report"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117188368025317367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}