How happy are Midlanders?  Well according to a new survey, pretty happy, number one kinda happy in fact. But never fear Odessans, you are in the top ten happiest cities in Texas as well.

According to the Midland Reporter-Telegram, a survey conducted by the financial website CreditDonkey.com and found Midland is the happiest city in Texas.

Here is the top ten happiest cities in Texas:

  1. Midland
  2. Sugar Land
  3. Wichita Falls
  4. Odessa
  5. Flower Mound
  6. Allen
  7. Richardson
  8. Plano
  9. League City
  10. Frisco

Here are how the rankings came about.  CreditDonkey.com cumulated the rankings based on the following criteria:

  • Restaurants
  • Crime rate
  • Commute
  • Departure time
  • Income
  • Divorce rate
  • Housing

Midland and Odessa both did well on commute time and income spent on housing.  But both cities did not fare so well in the crime rate factor.  Odessa ranked last while Midland was eighth out of ten.

Both cities also did not do as well in median household income and divorce rate.

Amarillo and Abilene ranked 17th and 18th respectively as the only other west Texas cities to make the survey.

 

 

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