The Most and Least Stressed States of 2010

Many Americans are stressed out, it seems, but some states are more frazzled than others, according to a survey by Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.

The results are based on telephone interviews conducted as Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2010, with a random sample of 352,840 adults, ages 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

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Here are the results listed from least to most stressed and the percent of residents who said they had experienced stress a lot of the prior day:

1. Hawaii: 30.2 percent
2. Wyoming: 34.4 percent
3. North Dakota: 34.6 percent
4. South Dakota: 35.5 percent
5. District of Columbia: 36.7 percent
6. Iowa: 37.7
7. Georgia: 37.7
8. Delaware: 37.9
9. Louisiana: 38.0
10. Nebraska: 38.1
11. Wisconsin: 38.1
12. Alaska: 38.3
13. Minnesota: 38.6
14. Texas: 38.7
15. South Carolina: 38.8
16. Kansas: 38.9
17. Florida: 38.9
18. Vermont: 39.0
19. Pennsylvania: 39.2
20. Arizona: 39.2
21. New Mexico: 39.2
22. Illinois: 39.3
23. Maryland: 39.3
24. California: 39.4
25. Montana: 39.5
26. Oklahoma: 39.5
27. Alabama: 39.6
28. Colorado: 39.6
29. Arkansas: 39.6
30. Mississippi: 39.7
31. Virginia: 39.7
32. New York: 39.8
33. Missouri: 39.9
34. Maine: 39.9
35. New Jersey: 40.0
36. Indiana: 40.2
37. Tennessee: 40.3
38. Michigan: 40.3
39. Connecticut: 40.4
40. North Carolina: 40.4
41. Washington: 40.9
42. Rhode Island: 41.0
43. New Hampshire: 41.1
44. Nevada: 41.2
45. Ohio: 41.9
46. Oregon: 42.3
47. Massachusetts: 42.6
48. Idaho: 43.0
49. West Virginia: 43.6
50. Kentucky: 44.9
51. Utah: 45.1

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