We all like to pride ourselves on what we’re best at, but every U.S. State has to be last at something. Here’s the Hall of Shame from this morning’s Jeff & Jer Showgram
- Alabama: highest rate of stroke (3.8 percent) (tied with Oklahoma)
- Alaska: highest suicide rate (23.6 suicides per 100,000 people in 2004)
- Arizona: highest rate of alcoholism
- Arkansas: worst average credit score (636)
- California: most air pollution (15.2 micrograms per cubic meter)
- Colorado: highest rate of cocaine use per capita (3.9 percent total population)
- Connecticut: highest rate of breast cancer
- Delaware: highest abortion rate (27 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44)
- Florida: highest rate of identity theft (122.3 reports per 100,000 people)
- Georgia: sickly based on highest rate of influenza
- Hawaii –highest cost of living (tied with California)
- Idaho – lowest level of Congressional clout
- Illinois: highest rate of robbery (284.7 incidences per 100,000 people)
- Indiana: rated the most environmentally unfriendly by NMI solutions
- Iowa: highest percentage of people age 85 and older (1.8 percent) (tied with three other states)
- Kansas: poorest health based on highest average number of limited activity days per month (3.5 days)
- Kentucky: most cancer deaths (227 per 100,000 people) (BONUS fact: Kentucky also has the highest rate of tobacco smokers – 25.6 percent)
- Louisiana: highest rate of gonorrhea (264.4 reported cases per 100,000 people)
- Maine: dumbest state claim based on lowest average SAT score (1389)
- Maryland: highest rate of AIDS diagnosis (27.6 people per 100,000 people)
- Massachusetts: worst drivers claim based on highest rate of auto accidents
- Michigan: highest unemployment rate (13.6 percent)
- Minnesota: highest number of reported tornadoes (123 in 2010)
- Mississippi: highest rate of obesity (35.3 percent of total population)
- Missouri: highest rate of bankruptcy (700 out of every 100,000 people)
- http://www.bcsalliance.com/bankruptcy_statestats.html
- Montana: highest rate of drunk driving deaths (1.12 deaths per 100 million miles driven)
- Nebraska: highest rate of women murdered annually
- Nevada: highest rate violent crime (702.2 offenses per 100,000 people). BONUS fact: Nevada also has the highest rate of foreclosure (one in 99 houses)
- New Hampshire: highest rate of corporate taxes
- New Jersey: highest rate of citizen taxation (11.8 percent)
- New Mexico: antisocial claim based on lowest ranking in social health policies
- New York: longest average daily commute (30.6 minutes) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/lab_mea_tra_tim_to_wor-labor-mean-travel-time-work
- North Carolina: lowest average teacher salary
- North Dakota: ranked last in ugliest residents report as chosen by The Daily Beast
- Ohio: nerdiest state claim based on highest number of library visits per capita (6.9)
- Oklahoma: highest rate of female incarceration
- Oregon: highest rate of long-term homeless people
- Pennsylvania: highest rate of arson deaths (55.56 annually)
- Rhode Island: highest rate of illicit drug use (12.5 percent of population)
- South Carolina: highest percentage of mobile homes (18.8 percent)
- South Dakota: highest rate of forcible rape 76.5 per 100,000
- Tennessee: chosen most corrupt state by The Daily Beast
- Texas: lowest high school graduation rate (78.3 percent)
- Utah: highest rate of of online porn subscriptions
- Vermont: infertility claim based on lowest birth rate of any state (10.6 births per 1,000) (tied with Maine)
- Virginia: highest number of alcohol-related motorcyle deaths
- Washington: most cases of bestiality (4 reported in 2010)
- West Virginia: highest rate of heart attack (6.5 percent of population)
- Wisconsin: highest rate of binge drinking (23.2 percent of population)
- Wyoming: highest rate of deadly car crashes (24.6 deaths per 100,000)
Most of these stats were taken from www.americashealthrankings.org and the U.S. Census
