Fiscally Fit Cities List
To measure the Fiscal Fitness of the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, Sperling’s BestPlaces used criteria divided into three overarching categories of investment, life insurance coverage and quality of life. Find out more about the Methodology.
City Rankings
| 1 | Salt Lake City-Ogden | UT |
| 2 | Portland-Vancouver | OR-WA |
| 3 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater | FL |
| 4 | Pittsburgh | PA |
| 5 | Orlando | FL |
| 6 | Minneapolis-St. Paul | MN-WI |
| 7 | Fort Lauderdale | FL |
| 8 | Seattle-Bellevue-Everett | WA |
| 9 | Indianapolis | IN |
| 10 | Phoenix-Mesa | AZ |
| 11 | Fort Worth-Arlington | TX |
| 12 | Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point | NC |
| 13 | Kansas City | MO-KS |
| 14 | Atlanta | GA |
| 15 | Nassau-Suffolk | NY |
| 16 | Philadelphia | PA-NJ |
| 17 | New Haven-Meriden | CT |
| 18 | Bergen-Passaic | NJ |
| 19 | Sacramento | CA |
| 20 | St. Louis | MO-IL |
| 21 | Columbus | OH |
| 22 | Detroit | MI |
| 23 | Denver | CO |
| 24 | Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill | NC-SC |
| 25 | Nashville | TN |
| 26 | Washington | DC-MD-VA |
| 27 | Las Vegas | NV-AZ |
| 28 | Dallas | TX |
| 29 | San Francisco | CA |
| 30 | Baltimore | MD |
| 31 | Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria | OH |
| 32 | Austin-San Marcos | TX |
| 33 | San Antonio | TX |
| 34 | Newark | NJ |
| 35 | Cincinnati | OH-KY-IN |
| 36 | Houston | TX |
| 37 | San Diego | CA |
| 38 | San Jose | CA |
| 39 | Riverside-San Bernardino | CA |
| 40 | Boston | MA-NH-ME |
| 41 | Oakland | CA |
| 42 | Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill | NC |
| 43 | Orange County | CA |
| 44 | New York | NY |
| 45 | Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News | VA-NC |
| 46 | Milwaukee-Waukesha | WI |
| 47 | New Orleans | LA |
| 48 | Los Angeles-Long Beach | CA |
| 49 | Chicago | IL |
| 50 | Miami | FL |