Health & Fitness

Plano Ranked Among America's Healthiest Cities

The Texas city ranked the highest was Austin at 14 while Brownsville was dead last at 174.

Plano was listed as one of the top 50 healthiest American cities according to a new report from personal-finance website WalletHub. The city ranked number 43 right behind Las Vegas and right in front of St. Paul, Minnesota .

WalletHub compared more than 170 of the largest U.S. cities across 42 metrics, including the cost of medical visit, fruit and vegetable consumption, and fitness clubs per capita, the organization said in a news release. The healthiest city was San Francisco followed by Seattle.

Some other key stats Wallethub found around the U.S.:

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  • Overland Park, Kansas, has the lowest share of physically unhealthy adults, 7.10 percent, which is 2.7 times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 19.10 percent.
  • Laredo, Texas, has the lowest cost per doctor's visit, $58.33, which is 3.3 times less expensive than in Boston, the city with the highest at $190.52.
  • Portland, Maine, has the lowest share of adults eating fruit less than once daily, 28.20 percent, which is 1.8 times lower than in Gulfport, Mississippi, the city with the highest at 51.80 percent.
  • Amarillo, Texas, has the lowest average monthly cost for a fitness-club membership, $13.67, which is 6.2 times less expensive than in San Francisco, the city with the highest at $84.36.

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