In recent years, Americans have faced considerable financial challenges, from high unemployment to high inflation. In fact, inflation – mostly the price of eggs – was one of the decisive factors in the last presidential election (no comment on how egg prices have since).
To determine cities where people are in the most financial concern, Lighter Recently compared the 100 largest cities without data restrictions on nine main metrics in six general categories: 1) Credit result, 2) People with anxiety accounts, 3) The average number of anxiety accounts, 4) the change in the number of bankruptcy records – December 2024 versus December 2023, 5) the Interest Interest Index. The study defines an anxiety account as one that is either in patience or has pushed its payments.
Houston claimed the upper place (or at the end, as appropriate). Wallethub's study found that there is a high share of the population with anxiety account compared to most other cities, with over 9%, and also has a high number of anxiety accounts per person. Moreover, people in Houston also show some of the highest Google search interest in terms such as “debt” and “credit”, which indicate a strong need for loan.
Space City runs an entire contingent in Texas in this obnoxious ball 10, with Dallas, San Antonio and (somewhat surprisingly) Austin all the spaces they claim.
Florida also has a heavy presence, similarly placing 4 cities in Top 10 – Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami and Orlando.
Atlanta and Charlotte were the only two cities in the first 10 places that were not located in Florida or Texas.
Here's a look at the 10 cities with most people in financial concerns.