{"id":208829,"date":"2026-03-17T21:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208829\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:42:20","slug":"plano-ranks-in-happiest-cities-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208829\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano ranks in Happiest Cities in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plano was the only city in Texas to rank in the top 30, with Austin ranking at #39, Irving at #70 and Garland at #92.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent WalletHub study, Plano <a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/plano-best-place-raise-family-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked<\/a> 16th in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/happiest-places-to-live\/32619\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Happiest Cities in America<\/a>, the only city in Texas to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The study analyzed 182 of the largest cities in the U.S. based on indicators of happiness, like depression rate, suicide rate, sleep, physical health, sports participation, income and employment, and community and environmental factors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch shows that having more money only increases your happiness until you\u2019re making at least $75,000 per year \u2013 anything more you earn likely won\u2019t have an impact. Therefore, when deciding where to live to maximize your happiness, you\u2019ll want to pick a city that offers more than just a decent average income,\u201d WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo said. \u201cThe ideal city provides conditions that foster good mental and physical health, like reasonable work hours, short commutes, good weather, and caring neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/happiest-places-to-live\/32619\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/happiest-cities-in-america.png\" alt=\"Happiest\" width=\"null\" height=\"null\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plano was the only city in Texas to rank in the top 30, with Austin ranking at #39, Irving at #70 and Garland at #92.<\/p>\n<p>Plano achieved that rank due to its high ranking in emotional and physical well-being, according to the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano was the only city in Texas to rank in the top 30, with Austin ranking at #39,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-208829","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\/208829","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=208829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}