Milwaukee – Out of the first 9 cities mentioned as the most Drunkest cities in America, Wisconsin has 6 cities out of 9 .
Wisconsin made a splash this past week after a report released by 24/7 Wall Street, listed 6 out of the top 9 drunkest cities in America are located in Wisconsin.
24/7 Wall Street ranked both the drunkest and driest cities in America. The Badger state not only took 6 of the top 9 positions listed in the report, Wisconsin cities took all honors by being listed as the state were 12 of the top 20 cities were the drunkest in the nation.
The top 20 most inebriated cities in America, according to the report are:
1. Appleton
2. Oshkosh-Neenah
3. Green Bay
4. Madison
5. Fargo, North
Dakota
6. Fond du Lac
7. La Cross – Onalaska
8. Ames, Iowa
9. Eau Claire
10. Mankato-North
Mankato,
Minnesota
11. Wausau
12. Sheboygan
13. Missoula,
Montana
14. Grand Forks,
North Dakota
15. Racine
16. Janesville-Beloit
17. Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis
18. Lincoln, Nebraska
19. Iowa City, Iowa
20. Corvallis, Oregon
The report lists four metrics for each of the cities, studied. They include:
– Percent of adults drinking to excess
– Percent of driving deaths involving alcohol
– Premature death rate
– Median household income
The data was collected using these indicators, according to the report.
“To identify the drunkest and least drunk cities in the United States, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed self-reported binge and heavy drinking rates among adults in U.S. metro areas from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program.
Excessive drinking can take the form of binge drinking or heavy drinking. The CDC defines binge drinking as consuming four or more drinks for women and five or more drinks for men during a single sitting. Heavy drinking is defined as some 15 or more drinks consumed per week for men and eight or more drinks for women.”
Of particular concern for many Wisconsin cities is the high rate of drunk driving:
Drunk driving accounts for 31.0% of roadway fatalities nationwide. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, a city where over a quarter of adults drink excessively, 47.5% of fatal car accidents involve alcohol, the seventh highest in the country.
Another interesting matter of concern is information from the report pointing out that Wisconsin has a larger than normal number of bars per capita.
There are an average of 1.6 bars for every 10,000 residents across the metro areas examined. With the exception of Corvallis, Oregon, each of the 20 cities with the highest excessive drinking rates has at least that many bars per capita.
