America’s Craziest Cities: Louisville Is… Number 14!!

The Daily Beast just released their list of America’s craziest cities. The 57 largest metropolitan areas were ranked — using four criteria: psychiatrists per capita, stress, eccentricity and drinking levels. The Craziest Cities in America were then revealed.

The Methodology:

• Psychiatrists per capita: How many shrinks there are to fill the therapy demand per person, with data from the Census and Citysearch.com. Read: The lower the score, the more psychiatrists per capita.

• Stress: Emotional and mental health, based on a 2008 national survey by Gallup-Healthways.

• Eccentricity: How crazy, wacky, and weird each city is, compiled with help from travel writer, and student of all things eccentric, Mike Barish

• Drinking: Whether the metropolitan area’s residents are heavy drinking, defined as two drinks a day or more for men, and one drink a day or more for women. With data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2008.

Louisville earned the honor of fourteenth on the list. It wasn’t “Sin City” (5th) that came in atop the nuttiest though, it was a different type of “cin”: The Queen City of Cincinnati came in as the number one wackjob city on the list.

St. Louis, MO hit blackjack at number 21, while Nashville finished 32nd, partly due to the fact it is illegal to roller-skate and listen to a CD at the same time… Indianapolis barely staved off being the sanest of the bunch, finishing in 52nd out of the 57 cities ranked.

#14, Louisville

Psychiatrists per capita: 12 out of 57

Stress: 12 out of 57

Eccentricity: 26 out of 57

Drinking: 38 (tie) out of 57

Local Color: Local slogan (with hat tip to Austin): Keep Louisville Weird.

For the full list of nutjob cities CLICK HERE.