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Iowa Cracks Top 10 Best States to Retire
Looking at three major categories, WalletHub has determined the best states to spend your golden years and Iowa makes the Top 10.
Affordability, heath care, and and overall quality of life are the three main categories focused on for the WalletHub study. They compared the 50 states across 41 key metrics. The data set ranges from adjusted cost of living to weather to quality of public hospitals.
According to the data, Iowa made the top five in the categories of elderly-friendly labor market and health-care facilities per capita. The biggest ding against the Hawkeye state was affordability. In the end, Iowa rank fourth overall.
Retiring in Iowa Key Findings: (1=Best; 25=Avg.)
- 8th – Adjusted Cost of Living
- 5th – Elderly-Friendly Labor Market
- 11th – % of Population Aged 65 & Older
- 18th – Property-Crime Rate
- 16th – Life Expectancy
- 3rd – Health-Care Facilities per Capita
Here are the best states to retire in the US according to WalletHub.
The Best:
- Florida
- Colorado
- South Dakota
- Iowa
- Virginia
- Wyoming
- New Hampshire
- Idaho
- Utah
- Arizona
The Worst
- Kentucky
- New Jersey
- Rhode Island
- Mississippi
- Arkansas
- West Virginia
- Louisiana
- New Mexico
- Hawaii
- Alabama
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