October 25, 2024 | Leave a Comment

America’s Laziest States, (#9 Must Be Wrong!)

Introduction

Introduction — Can you guess America’s laziest state?

These data all come courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (or BRFSS, for short) study.

BRFSS has a question specifically dedicated to leisure time exercise and reports what percentage of people say that they have not engaged in any non-work-related exercise in the past 30 days (for the years 2017-2020).

One thought we had is that some work is more strenuous than others, but there are many potential factors.

We’ll let you be the judge…here are the results:

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Not Ranked: New Jersey

Not Ranked: New Jersey — First, a note on data quality:

CDC’s BRFSS survey had insufficient data on New Jersey, so it’s been excluded from the dataset.

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Overall Average

Overall Average — Across the United States, the percent of people with no exercise outside of work was, on average, 25.3%.

Keep this average in mind as we proceed!

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#50: Colorado

#50: Colorado — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 17.7%

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#49: Utah

#49: Utah — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 18.2%

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#48: Washington

#48: Washington — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 18.4%

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#47: Vermont

#47: Vermont — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 19.6%

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#46: District of Columbia

#46: District of Columbia — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 20.2%

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#45: Oregon

#45: Oregon — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 20.7%

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#44: Alaska

#44: Alaska — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 20.8%

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#43: Minnesota

#43: Minnesota — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 21%

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#42: California

#42: California — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 21.2%

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#41: New Hampshire

#41: New Hampshire — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 21.5%

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#40: Montana

#40: Montana — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 21.5%

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#39: Hawaii

#39: Hawaii — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 21.7%

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#38: Wisconsin

#38: Wisconsin — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 21.9%

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#37: Idaho

#37: Idaho — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 22.2%

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#36: Connecticut

#36: Connecticut — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 22.6%

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#35: Maryland

#35: Maryland — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 23.2%

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#34: Massachusetts

#34: Massachusetts — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 23.3%

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#33: Arizona

#33: Arizona — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 23.3%

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#32: Virginia

#32: Virginia — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 23.4%

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#31: Wyoming

#31: Wyoming — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 23.6%

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#30: New Mexico

#30: New Mexico — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 23.7%

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#29: Nebraska

#29: Nebraska — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 24.3%

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#28: Michigan

#28: Michigan — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 24.3%

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#27: Iowa

#27: Iowa — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 24.5%

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#26: North Carolina

#26: North Carolina — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 24.6%

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#25: Pennsylvania

#25: Pennsylvania — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 24.7%

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#24: Maine

#24: Maine — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 24.8%

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#23: Kansas

#23: Kansas — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 24.8%

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#22: Illinois

#22: Illinois — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 24.9%

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#21: South Dakota

#21: South Dakota — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 25.3%

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#20: Rhode Island

#20: Rhode Island — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 25.3%

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#19: North Dakota

#19: North Dakota — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 25.6%

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#18: New York

#18: New York — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 25.9%

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#17: Nevada

#17: Nevada — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 26%

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#16: Ohio

#16: Ohio — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 26.9%

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#15: Delaware

#15: Delaware — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 27.2%

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#14: Florida

#14: Florida — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 27.3%

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#13: Georgia

#13: Georgia — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 27.4%

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#12: Texas

#12: Texas — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 27.5%

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#11: South Carolina

#11: South Carolina — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 27.6%

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#10: Missouri

#10: Missouri — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 27.8%

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#9: Indiana

#9: Indiana — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 28.5%

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#8: Tennessee

#8: Tennessee — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 28.9%

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#7: West Virginia

#7: West Virginia — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 30.1%

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#6: Oklahoma

#6: Oklahoma — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 30.5%

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#5: Alabama

#5: Alabama — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 30.7%

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#4: Louisiana

#4: Louisiana — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 30.8%

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#3: Arkansas

#3: Arkansas — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 31.1%

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#2: Kentucky

#2: Kentucky — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 32.5%

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#1: Mississippi

#1: Mississippi — Percent of people with no exercise outside of work: 33.2%

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