Salt Lake ranks 13th in ACSM American Fitness Index study

With a total score of 59.8, the Salt Lake City Metro Region (which can be interpreted as Salt Lake County) ranks as the 13th healthiest city out of the 50 largest metropolitan regions in the United States, according to ACSM American Fitness Index's "Health and Community Fitness Status of the 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas" study.

One of the reasons Salt Lake City ranked so high was due to its "higher percent [of people] bicycling or walking to work". That is, higher than AFI's goal percentage, which we exceeded by only 0.2%.

Other factors that the AFI takes into account are "Lower percent currently smoking", "More park units per capita", and "More dog parks per capita", which were areas of excellence for Salt Lake; and "Higher percent with asthma", "Fewer acres of parkland per capita", and "Fewer recreation centers per capita", areas where we could improve (meaning worse than 20% of target goal).

Congratulations SLC and environs, you're pretty healthy. Just drive a bit less, bike a whole lot more, and we'll be healthy in no time.

After the break, full high-res snapshots of Salt Lake City's section of the AFI study.

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