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100 Largest Metro Areas (Ranked in order from most stressful to least stressful) Rank Metro Area 1 Tacoma, WA 2 Miami, FL 3 New Orleans, LA 4 Las Vegas, NV-AZ 5 New York, NY 6 Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA 7 Mobile, AL 8 Stockton-Lodi, CA 9 Detroit, MI 10 Dallas, TX 11 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA 12 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL 13 Houston, TX 14 Fort Lauderdale, FL 15 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA 16 St. Louis, MO-IL 17 Denver, CO 18 Jacksonville, FL 19 Jersey City, NJ 20 Phoenix-Mesa, AZ 21 Orlando, FL 22 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC 23 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 24 Oakland, CA 25 Kansas City, MO-KS 26 Chicago, IL 27 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 28 San Antonio, TX 29 Albuquerque, NM 30 Tucson, AZ 31 Gary, IN 32 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA 33 Baton Rouge, LA 34 Bakersfield, CA 35 Baltimore, MD 36 Sacramento, CA 37 Tulsa, OK 38 Memphis, TN-AR-MS 39 Nashville, TN 40 Birmingham, AL 41 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC 42 San Francisco, CA 43 Atlanta, GA 44 Colorado Springs, CO 45 Fresno, CA 46 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI 47 Toledo, OH 48 Indianapolis, IN 49 Philadelphia, PA-NJ 50 Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH 51 Youngstown-Warren, OH 52 Wilmington-Newark, DE-MD 53 Dayton-Springfield, OH 54 Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR 55 Newark, NJ 56 San Jose, CA 57 Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC 58 Wichita, KS 59 El Paso, TX 60 Austin-San Marcos, TX 61 Oklahoma City, OK 62 Louisville, KY-IN 63 Springfield, MA 64 Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT 65 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 66 Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI 67 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 68 Sarasota-Bradenton, FL 69 Richmond-Petersburg, VA 70 Bergen-Passaic, NJ 71 Charleston-North Charleston, SC 72 Monmouth-Ocean, NJ 73 Akron, OH 74 Pittsburgh, PA 75 San Diego, CA 76 Knoxville, TN 77 Boston, MA-NH-ME 78 Hartford, CT 79 Columbia, SC 80 Ventura, CA 81 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA 82 Columbus, OH 83 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV 84 Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ 85 Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA 86 Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY 87 Syracuse, NY 88 New Haven-Meriden, CT 89 Rochester, NY 90 Scranton-Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton, PA 91 Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC 92 Honolulu, HI 93 Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC 94 Omaha, NE-IA 95 Ann Arbor, MI 96 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI 97 Nassau-Suffolk, NY 98 Orange County, CA 99 Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, PA 100 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
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