Financial wellness website CardRate.com recently published a report ranking the country’s most resilient metros, and Huntsville topped the new list.
The study found that mid-sized metros like Huntsville are outperforming larger, high-cost cities due to more manageable housing costs, stronger employment stability and better income cushioning.
Huntsville ranks #1 for financial resilience
CardRates analyzed 151 U.S. metro areas and cities using the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and related public sources. Each metro or city was evaluated across eight indicators of household financial stress, including unemployment, retirement income, housing affordability (renters & owners), job diversity, home value and poverty rates.
Raw values were ranked and converted into 0–100 percentile scores to allow consistent comparisons across metros. Metrics where higher values indicate greater stress were inverted so higher scores always reflect stronger financial conditions…