Graphic credit: Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index
Virginia scores 14th nationally in Gallup-Healthway’s 2012 Well Being Index, which incorporates the following metrics: life evaluation, emotional health, physical health, healthy behaviors, work environment and access to health care.
The Washington metro ranked tops in the country for large communities, and Charlottesville third for small communities. Richmond (No. 92), Lynchburg (No. 93) and Virginia Beach (No. 99) all ranked in the middle quintile for the 189 metropolitan areas surveyed.
View the Virginia state index here.
