{"id":207761,"date":"2026-03-17T03:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207761\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:51:26","slug":"plano-ranks-as-the-16th-happiest-city-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207761\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano ranks as the 16th happiest city in the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmt66zh6000x01txzivxbzsn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Once again, Plano has been named one of the happiest cities in America and the happiest city in Texas in a new study from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/happiest-places-to-live\/32619\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WalletHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmt67seu001o3b7733dkpwup@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Plano ranked as the 16th\u00a0happiest city in the nation, up from number 17 in last year\u2019s study.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmt67s6w001n3b77c0c16kvc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">They were far and away the happiest city in Texas.\u00a0\u00a0The next closest was Irving at No. 70, Garland at No. 92, Grand Prairie (No. 106), Dallas (No. 111), Fort Worth (No. 113), and Arlington (No. 119).<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmt67s4y001j3b773lxpjrwn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dallas.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/plano-happiest-cities-america\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CultureMap Dallas<\/a>, WalletHub found its rankings based on 29 relevant metrics based on &#8220;positive-psychology research&#8221; across three main categories: emotional and physical wellbeing, income and employment, and community and environment.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmt67s52001k3b77iijqrbbb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">According to their list, the ten happiest cities in America are:<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmt67s57001m3b77a8kslonx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">1 &#8211; Fremont, CA<br \/>2 &#8211; Bismarck, ND<br \/>3 &#8211; Scottsdale, AZ<br \/>4 &#8211; South Burlington, VT<br \/>5 &#8211; Fargo, ND<br \/>6 &#8211; Overland Park, KS<br \/>7 &#8211; Charleston, SC<br \/>8 &#8211; Irvine, CA<br \/>9 &#8211; Gilbert, AZ<br \/>10 &#8211; San Jose, CA<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmt67s52001l3b77wi933f8e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/listen\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LISTEN\u00a0<\/a>on the Audacy App<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/newsletter\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign Up<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/download\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow 100.3 JACK-FM<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JackFMDFW\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackFMDFW\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jackfmdfw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Getty Images\n        <\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once again, Plano has been named one of the happiest cities in America and the happiest city in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-207761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}