Where Does Bismarck Rank? 20 “Happiest” Cities In The US

What would your guess be? What do you think determines what makes people happy?

To me, that's not too difficult a question to answer. For most people, it comes down to the cost of living. How does Bismarck, North Dakota, compare to other cities nationwide? A larger city like San Diego, California, are THEY happier than we are?

The International Day of Happiness is coming up on March 20

There is a website called WalletHub that just put out an article titled Happiest Cities in America ( 2025 ) - They posted a  list with 182 cities around the country and ranked them - "To see which states combine all the necessary components of happiness". So what would that combine? According to wallethub.com "WalletHub drew upon the various findings of positive-psychology research in order to determine which among more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities is home to the happiest people in America. We examined each city based on 29 key indicators of happiness, ranging from the depression rate to the income-growth rate to average leisure time spent per day"

Where would you guess Bismarck would be on this list?

   Here you go: did you guess that high?  

 So I thought to myself, what makes Bismarck happy?