The border city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the other hand, ranked lowest of 189 communities measured. Gallup measures the well-being of a community based on interviews gauging resident's feelings about their financial position, community, health and safety. To quantify this, residents in 354,000 phone interviews were asked questions about how stressed they are about their economic security and how motivated they feel to achieve goals and whether they have supportive and loving relationships. Fort Smith, on the Oklahoma border and home to more than 87,000 people, ranked lowest in the social, physical health and safety categories. The median household income in Naples is more than $45,000 higher than that in Fort Smith, where the income of 27% of residents fell below the poverty line, according to US Census Bureau data.

Source: CNN March 08, 2017 20:26 UTC