Happiest States In The United States 2024. To figure out which states are the most content, wallethub compared them across three groups: To determine which states are the happiest in the united states, wallethub looked at both internal and external factors in the form of different metrics in three categories:

Wallethub ranked the 50 states across 30 key metrics ranging from income growth, unemployment, depression rate and more. The happiest metro areas were naples, fla., barnstable town, mass.