Fresno is the happiest county in the Central Valley, report says

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno County ranked arsenic the happiest region successful the Central Valley, according to a caller study released by the California State Assembly Select Committee connected Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes.

The report, released to assistance legislators successful aboriginal sessions to summation happiness levels successful the state, ranks counties by the beingness restitution of their residents. Fresno County is the happiest region successful the Central Valley, ranking 27 connected the database and with a beingness restitution of 7.06 retired of 7.92.

The happiest region successful the authorities was Alpine County, with a beingness restitution of 7.92.

Happiness experts accidental happiness tin person respective benefits connected people's wellness and their careers due to the fact that blessed radical are much productive and amended leaders.

“We find that happiness is aligned with circumstantial prime of beingness ratings. In particular, jobs, leisure, and housing,” said Mark Baldassare, statewide survey manager and Miller Chair successful Public Policy astatine the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). “In our polling, we besides looked astatine idiosyncratic finance.”

Results from the PPIC survey successful May 1998 amusement 28% of Californians responded to the survey arsenic being "very happy", but lone 16% of Californians gave the aforesaid answers successful September 2023.

Baldassare links the diminution successful happiness to corresponding declines successful different sectors. In the Central Valley, the slightest blessed region was Mariposa County, ranking 56 and with a beingness restitution of 6.73 retired of 7.92, according to the report.

Other Central Valley counties connected the database include:

• Kings County, with a beingness restitution of 7.04.
• Tulare County, with a beingness restitution of 6.99.
• Merced County, with a beingness restitution of 6.97.
• Madera County, with a beingness restitution of 6.92.

The National Conference of State Legislatures describes the Select Committee connected Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes arsenic the "first committee focused exclusively connected happiness successful the nation."

To work the afloat report, click here.