{"id":244983,"date":"2026-06-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/best-u-s-states-to-live-in-for-2026-ranked-from-worst-to-best-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:00:00","slug":"best-u-s-states-to-live-in-for-2026-ranked-from-worst-to-best-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/best-u-s-states-to-live-in-for-2026-ranked-from-worst-to-best-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Best U.S. States to Live In for 2026, Ranked from Worst to Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2221959\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking to move in 2026, you should make sure to think about the best place to be living right now. Let\u2019s take a look at the best U.S. states!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/a> has been publishing rankings every year for a very long time and considers 71 different metrics to determine those rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a breakdown of the rankings through eight different categories: 15.79% is education, 15.51% is health care, 12.88% is economy, 12.74% is infrastructure, 12.2% is opportunity, 12.19% is fiscal stability, 9.69% is natural environment, and 9.01% is crime and corrections.<\/p>\n<p>So, where does your state fall in the ranking?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Browse through the slideshow to see the best states to live in\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/states\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">States<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/08\/best-u-s-states-to-live-in-for-2026-ranked-from-worst-to-best-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty If you\u2019re looking to move in 2026, you should make sure to think about the best place to be living right now. Let\u2019s take a look at the best U.S. states! U.S. News &amp; World Report has been publishing rankings every year for a very long time and considers 71 different metrics to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}