El Paso has low quality of life ranking, Nerdwallet website says
El Paso isn’t ranking too high when it comes to quality of life – at least according to Nerdwallet.
Nerdwallet ranked the top 100 cities in the U.S. when it comes to quality of life and El Paso came in at No. 84.
To come up with the list, Nerdwallet looked several factors, including the median price of rent (as a percentage of median income), the average number of hours residents spend commuting to work and working, the percentage of residents with health care coverage and the unemployment rate for the 100 largest U.S. cities.
El Paso’s stats according to Nerdwallet:
RANK: 84
OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE SCORE: 50.83803886
MEAN TRAVEL TIME TO WORK MINUTES: 22.7
MEAN WEEKLY HOURS WORKED: 39.2
MEDIAN ANNUAL RENT AS PERCENTAGE OF MEDIAN INCOME: 27.03%
PERCENT OF PEOPLE WITH INCOME BELOW POVERTY LEVEL: 22.80%
PERCENT OF POPULATION WITH HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE: 73.20%
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: 7.60%
CITIES WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE
Madison, Wisconsin
Lincoln, Nebraska
Minneapolis, Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota
Omaha, Nebraska Buffalo, New York
Lexington, Kentucky Lubbock, Texas Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fremont, California
CITIES WITH THE LOWEST QUALITY OF LIFE
Miami, Florida
Santa Ana, California
Hialeah, Florida
Newark, New Jersey
North Las Vegas, Nevada
Laredo, Texas
Los Angeles, California
Jersey City, New Jersey
New York, New York Fresno, California
