Where Data Tells the Story
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This chart ranks the 10 worst U.S. states to retire in, according to Bankrate.com, as of 2024.
What this ranking is not showing are states that people prefer to retire in for more qualitative reasons. Factors like weather are considered, but financial aspects of a state are weighted higher in this ranking.
To create this list, Bankrate analyzed all states across five categories with assigned weights: Affordability (40%), Wellbeing (25%), Health care (20%), Weather (10%), Crime (5%). One overall rank was then calculated.