Three in CT Named in Top 100 ‘Most Obese Cities in the US – 2025′

Connecticut residents are active and in good physical shape, right? Still, three of our largest cities have landed in the Top 100 in a new study of the Most Overweight and Obese Cities in the US - 2025.

According to the study by WalletHub.com, Americans are among the most overweight people in the world, with nearly a 42% obesity rate. We're surrounded and assaulted by cheap fast food and advertising for it, served sugary drinks that wakes up the diabetic in us, and we can never make healthy food shopping or cooking a priority in our lives.

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In order to determine their rankings of the fattest cities in the US for 2025, WalletHub.com compared the largest 100 cities in the US across three key dimensions: Obesity & Overweight, Health Consequences, and Food & Fitness. Those statistics were further evaluated using 19 metrics: Share of overweight adults, teenagers and children, Projected obesity rates by 2030, Share of adults with high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease, and shares of adults who eat healthy, access to parks & recreational facilities, and number of fitness facilities and educators.

Three of our largest cities made the list: Hartford landed at #61, New Haven at #71, and Bridgeport at #80. Providence, Rhode Island landed at #43, the only other city in all of New England that did worse than Hartford. Springfield, Massachusetts landed at #73, while New York City snuck in at #92.

The most overweight cities in the US for 2025 according to WalletHub.com? McAllen, Texas was #1, followed by Little Rock, Arkansas, and Jackson, Mississippi.