The Healthiest City in Minnesota

247wallst.com just published a story ranking the healthiest cities in each state. Rochester is number 1 in Minnesota. The website says,"Rochester is the healthiest metro area in Minnesota. Only 6.7% of adults reported fair or poor health, a smaller share than the 10.5% of statewide adults who reported such poor health. Home to one of the major locations of the world famous Mayo Clinic, metro area residents’ access to doctors was especially impressive. There were 503 people for every primary care physician in Rochester — fewer than half the amount of people per doctor in Minnesota as a whole.

Bad habits are also more rare in Rochester than across the state. Only 13.4% of metro area residents were smokers, compared with 16.2% of people in Minnesota. Additionally, only 15.3% of people in Rochester reported excessive drinking, compared to 19.3% of Minnesota residents."