Cities Where People Have the Best Money Management Skills – WalletHub

With good money management skills being crucial for financial success, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the Cities Where People Have the Best Money Management Skills, as well as expert commentary.

In order to determine where Americans are best at handling their finances, WalletHub compared more than 2,500 cities based on 10 key indicators of money-management skills. The data set ranges from the median credit score to the average number of late payments to the mortgage debt-to-income ratio.

Cities with Best Money-Management Skills Cities with Worst Money-Management Skills
1. Cupertino, CA 2508. Locust Grove, GA
2. Palo Alto, CA 2509. Covington, GA
3. Chevy Chase, MD 2510. Hampton, GA
4. Los Altos, CA 2511. Park Forest, IL
5. Scarsdale, NY 2512. Calumet City, IL
6. Sunnyvale, CA 2513. Fairburn, GA
7. Lexington, MA 2514. Tolleson, AZ
8. Redmond, WA 2515. Canton, MS
9. Mountain View, CA 2516. Dolton, IL
10. McLean, VA 2517. Ruston, LA

Readers who are curious to know how their money-management skills compare with those of the average person in their city can view an analysis of their free credit score through WalletHub.

Key takeaways and WalletHub commentary are included below in text and video format. Feel free to use the provided content as is or edit the raw files as you see fit.

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