Fort Worth is the sixth most likely city for worker burnout in the United States, according to a new study that examined metrics in the nation’s 100 largest cities across work schedule, health and well-being and financial stress.
Of the 25 cities where burnout is most likely, 13 are in Florida and Texas, including six of the top 10, SmartAsset, the financial technology that performed the study, said.
“Our data shows that workers in nine of these cities are working more hours per week than those in 80% of the 100 cities that we studied,” SmartAsset said.
“In six of the first 25 cities in the ranking, the average number of hours worked per week is equal to or exceeds 40: Orlando, Fla.; Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and Irving, Texas; and Denver, Colo.,” SmartAsset said.
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Orlando is the city where worker burnout is most likely in 2021, SmartAsset said. “The Central Florida locale ranks fourth-lowest for its health and well-being score. Within that category, Orlando has the seventh-highest percentage of residents who are physically inactive (26.8%) and the eighth-highest number of poor mental health days per year (5.0).”
Of Fort Worth, SmartAsset said, “on average, workers in Fort Worth, Texas log the seventh-highest number of hours per week (40.1). The health and well-being score indicates that not only does this city have the eighth-highest percentage of uninsured residents (19.4%), but also only 5.76% of Fort Worth is designated parkland (ranking in the bottom 25th percentile for that metric).”
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Garland ranked third for most likely burned out workers. “The labor force in Garland, Texas, which is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, works an average of 39.7 hours per week, tied for the 20th-highest across our study,” SmartAsset said. “However, the health and well-being score shows that this city has the second-highest percentage of uninsured residents (26.6%). Financial stress metrics rank Garland as having the 17th-lowest five-year change in income (16.55%) of all 100 cities in the study.”
Dallas ranked fifth. “Workers in Dallas, Texas average more hours per week (40.5) than their counterparts in 97 other cities across our study,” SmartAsset said. “Meanwhile, the health and well-being score indicates that Dallas also has the fourth-highest percentage of uninsured residents (24.6%).”
Houston ranked ninth. “Another Texas hotspot for potential worker burnout, Houston ranks seventh-worst for financial stress,” SmartAsset said. “This category includes housing costs as a percentage of income, five-year change in income, estimated annual cost of living for an individual and unemployment. Houston has the 16th-lowest five-year change in income (15.38%). Additionally, metrics for health and well-being also show that it has the third-highest percentage of uninsured residents (25.2%).”
SmartAsset examined four metrics under work schedule: average weeks worked per year, average hours worked per week, percentage of population working more than 1,750 hours per year, and percentage of workers with a long commute. “We gave a double weighting to this score, making it the most important category of metrics in our study.” The data came from the Census Bureau’s 2019 1-year American Community Survey.
Under health and well-being, SmartAsset examined percentage of city that is parkland, average number of poor mental health days, percentage of physically inactive residents, and percentage of uninsured residents. The data comes from the 2021 County Health Rankings and the Trust for Public Land’s 2020 Acreage & Park System Highlights.
Under financial stress, SmartAsset looked at housing costs as a percentage of income, five-year change in income, estimated annual cost of living for an individual, and the June 2021 unemployment rate. The data came from the 1-year American Community Surveys from 2014 and 2019, the MIT Cost of Living Calculator, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“We ranked each city in every metric and found an average ranking and score for each category,” SmartAsset said. “We then found a final score, assigning the score for work schedule a double weight and averaging the three category scores. The city with the highest cumulative score ranked at the top of our list.”