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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Another Gallup Healthways survey has ranked the city of Clarksville among the top ten least healthy communities in the U.S.
Gallup surveyed 189 metropolitan areas in 2012 and 2013 to measure physical and emotional health, job satisfaction, and access to basic needs.
Clarksville ranked number seven on the list of least healthy communities using the following criteria:
• Physical Health Index: 71.6
• Obesity rate: 33.8% (8th highest)
• Blood pressure: 29.3% (92nd highest)
• Poverty rate: 19.3% (93rd highest)
As far as emotional heath is concerned, residents reported feelings of anger and were among the least likely to have felt happen within the previous day.