New York Post

We’re all Blue Yorkers

City’s sad ranking

- By LINDA MASSARELLA

New Yorkers aren’t the most depressed people in the country, but their lack of sleep and exercise is putting a major dent in the city’s overall happiness, a study has found.

The Big Apple placed a crummy 70th in a ranking of the 150 happiest places to live in the United States released Monday by the personal-financial Web site WalletHub.

Jill Gonzalez, an analyst for the site, said the study aggregated data from 2015 reports from the Census and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and coupled them with newer studies provided by the entertainm­ent and travel sites Yelp and TripAdviso­r.

The factors fed into the report included data on income, exercise, sleep patterns and natural attraction­s.

“New York ranked pretty poorly,” she said. “We’ve done state rankings on happiness before, but this is the first time we ran the numbers for the country. It’s surprising to see that the city that never sleeps is pretty depressed.”

She said the study was di- vided into three categories: emotional and physical well-being; income and employment; and community and environmen­t.

New York scored low across all three, Gonzalez said, mainly because of CDC statistics that showed its denizens suffering from sleep deprivatio­n and a lack of exercise.

“The CDC has New York’s inadequate sleep rate at 130 out of the 150 cities,” she said, adding that 71 percent of adults in the Big Apple also said they didn’t get regular physical activity.

“Sleep and exercise — those are big deals,” Gonzalez said.

Why New Yorkers haven’t collective­ly jumped out of their windows, however, might be all the great entertainm­ent in the city.

Based on the data from TripAdviso­r, New York scored at the top for city attraction­s.

“The attraction­s are helping to bring up the happiness level,” Gonzalez said. “Without it, New York would have ranked lower by about three points.”

Not surprising­ly, sunny Fremont, Calif. came in first place, while Detroit, came in last.

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