Provo, Utah, leads 189 communities and Huntington, W.Va., comes in last. 
 
 The latest well-being rankings from Gallup and Healthways put Provo,, Utah, in first place and Huntington, W.V., in last among 189 communities. (Photo: USA TODAY) Story Highlights Findings are based on more than 500,000 interviews 
 
 It's the second time the Provo-Orem area has come in first 
 
 Huntington, W.Va., is recovering from an economic slump 
 
 The people of Provo, Utah, have the highest level of well-being and the folks around Huntington, W.Va., the lowest, at least according to the latest ranking of 189 cities and metropolitan areas from Gallup and Healthways. 
 
 The 2013 rankings, released Tuesday, are based on more than 500,000 interviews in which people were asked about such matters as their emotional and physical health, job satisfaction, community safety and access to food, shelter and health care. 
 
 This is the sixth year of the survey and the second time the Provo-Orem area has come in first; it's the fourth time the Huntington-Ashland, Ky. area has come in last. 
 
 "It's some strong validation for what we already know here in Provo," says the city's Mayor John Curtis. "It's a great place to live." He says other surveys have named the people of his city "most optimistic" and "nicest." 
 
 In that spirit, Curtis says Provo won't be trash-talking Boulder, Colo., which it knocked out of the top spot. "We have a lot of respect for Boulder," he says. 
 
 Huntington Mayor Steve Williams says continuing low health and well-being rankings by Gallup and other organizations are "aggravating as can be" at a time when the city is recovering from an economic slump. He notes the city just got an upgraded credit rating. But he says the rankings — in which Huntington is called out for everything from high obesity rates to low access to fruits and vegetables — have "certainly been a motivator for us to take an honest look at ourselves and get busy." 
 
 He says the city is expanding a farmers market, hosting 41 5K races a year and still promoting healthy eating at Huntington's Kitchen — the facility set up by British chef Jamie Oliver when he brought his Food Revolution show to town back in 2010. It's now run by a hospital. 
 
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 Gallup-Healthways pollsters are well aware that some ratings can sting. "The goal is not to make any community or population feel bad about results," says Patrick Bogart, Gallup's director of client services. "Our goal is to get leaders thinking about how they can enhance well-being." 
 
 Some highlights from the rankings: 
 
 • Provo-Orem has the lowest smoking rate (7%) and Charleston, W.Va., has the highest (34%) 
 
 • Utica-Rome, N.Y., has the highest job satisfaction (93%); Charleston has the lowest (81%) 
 
 • People in Holland-Grand Haven, Mich., are most likely to feel safe walking alone at night (86%) and people in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, are least likely to feel safe (49%). 
 
 The top 10 cities for overall well-being: 
 
 1. Provo-Orem, Utah 
 
 2. Boulder, Colo. 
 
 3. Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo. 
 
 4. Honolulu 
 
 5. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. 
 
 6. Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 
 7. Naples-Marco Island, Fla. 
 
 8. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, Calif. 
 
 9. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, Calif. 
 
 10. Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 The bottom 10 communities for overall well-being: 
 
 180. Evansville, Ind.-Ky. 
 
 181. Mobile, Ala. 
 
 182. Shreveport-Bossier City, La. 
 
 183. Columbus, Ga., Ala. 
 
 184. Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas 
 
 185. Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, N.C. 
 
 186. Spartanburg, S.C. 
 
 187. Redding, Calif. 
 
 188. Charleston, W.Va. 
 
 189. Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio 
 
 The full list of community rankings, plus previously released state rankings for 2013, are at Healthways.com. Healthways is a health care services company based in Franklin, Tenn. 
 
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 Pack a swimsuit and head south to reach the nation’s healthiest and happiest city. 
 
 For the second year in a row, Naples, Florida, and the nearby communities of Immokalee and Marco Island take the No. 1 spot in the Gallup-Healthways State of American Well-Being 2016 Community Rankings, released on Tuesday. The report measures how residents of 189 U.S. cities feel about their physical health, social ties, financial security, community and sense of purpose. 
 
 Boulder, Colorado, and Provo-Orem, Utah, are the only other communities that have reached the top spot more than once since the rankings began in 2008. 
 
 Naples has “muscled its way past” the other top-ranked metropolitan areas by getting high scores across the board, said Dan Witters, research director of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. 
 
 “Naples does a lot of things right,” Witters told TODAY. “[People in] Naples really take care of themselves well.” 
 
 Residents there report having good physical health, feeling proud about their community, enjoying good relationships and liking what they do each day. 
 
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 You may think that has a lot to do with living in a scenic, affluent beach community, but those factors don't influence the score as much as you’d expect. Income matters, but it doesn’t ensure high well-being, Witters said. Plus, the median household income of respondents in the Naples metropolitan statistical area wasn't “off the charts.” 
 
 As far as the beachy location, researchers have previously looked at the relationship between living near the coast and well-being, and found it’s not nearly as strong as you might think, he added. 
 
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 The top 10 U.S. communities with the highest well-being are: 
 
 1. Naples–Immokalee–Marco Island, Florida 
 
 2. Barnstable Town, Massachusetts 
 
 3. Santa Cruz–Watsonville, California 
 
 4. Honolulu, Hawaii 
 
 5. Charlottesville, Virginia 
 
 6. North Port–Sarasota–Bradenton, Florida 
 
 7. San Luis Obispo–Paso Robles, California 
 
 8. Lynchburg, Virginia 
 
 9. Hilton Head Island–Bluffton-Beaufort, South Carolina 
 
 10. Boulder, Colorado 
 
 At the other end of the spectrum, Fort Smith — located on the border of Arkansas and Oklahoma — was ranked last. The metropolitan area is a “mainstay” in the bottom ten, Witters said. 
 
 “Fort Smith, Charleston (West Virginia) and Huntington (West Virginia) are probably your big three as far as jostling for that unhappy spot at the very lowest rung on that ladder,” he noted. 
 
 Charleston did not make the rankings this year because Gallup-Healthways wasn’t able to obtain enough interviews from residents, so the city wasn’t eligible to be included. 
 
 Meanwhile, Fort Smith has a very high smoking rate and an obesity rate that’s “through the roof” at almost 40 percent, Witters said. The area gets some of the lowest marks in the nation for the number of residents who report they have someone in their life who encourages them to be healthy, or who say they do something interesting every day. 
 
 “That’s a really big missed opportunity,” Witters said. “Learning and growing is a very important psychological need.” 
 
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 The 10 communities at the bottom of the list are: 
 
 180. Montgomery, Alabama 
 
 181. Erie, Pennsylvania 
 
 182. Beaumont–Port Arthur, Texas 
 
 183. Chico, California 
 
 184. Flint, Michigan 
 
 185. Canton–Massillon, Ohio 
 
 186. Topeka, Kansas 
 
 187. Huntington–Ashland, West Virginia–Kentucky–Ohio 
 
 188. Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton, North Carolina 
 
 189. Fort Smith, Arkansas–Oklahoma 
 
 The most and least stressed cities 
 
 Naples had the most mellow, relaxed residents in the nation, while Chico, California, was home to the most worried, anxious and tense population. 
 
 But stress can be a “tricky” measure, Witters said. 
 
 “In places that have high percentages of professionals, you’ll have a lot more of what’s sometimes called productive stress, where people will carry out otherwise high well-being lives, but will feel the stress most days,” he noted. 
 
 So Provo-Orem Utah, and Boulder, Colorado, which are perennial high well-being places, also had the second- and third-highest stress levels in the nation, the report found. 
 
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 The city where people feel safest is… 
 
 That’s Boulder, Colorado, where 90 percent of residents say that they always feel safe and secure. 
 
 At the other end of the spectrum, Rockford, Illinois, is the city whose residents feel the least safe. Among the big cities, New Orleans and Las Vegas were also ranked low for safety. 
 
 Communities big on exercise 
 
 Boulder takes the top spot here, too, with 70 percent of its residents getting least 30 minutes of exercise three days a week. 
 
 Anchorage, Alaska, also ranked high in this category, which just goes to show you don’t need to have year-round outdoor weather to be able to stay fit, Witters noted. 
 
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– Gallup is out with its annual rankings of "well-being" in various communities, based on surveys of residents that encompass everything from jobs to physical and emotional health to community safety. The results: Provo, Utah, comes in at No. 1, while Huntington, W. Va., finishes last among 189 cities, reports USA Today. The top 10 cities in the survey: Provo-Orem, Utah Boulder, Colo. Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo. Honolulu San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. Ann Arbor, Mich. Naples-Marco Island, Fla. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, Calif. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, Calif. Lincoln, Neb. The cities with the worst well-being: Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio Charleston, W.Va. Redding, Calif. Spartanburg, S.C. Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, N.C. Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas Columbus, Ga., Ala. Shreveport-Bossier City, La. Mobile, Ala. Evansville, Ind.-Ky. The full report is at Healthways.com.