The Bangor area is the ‘laziest’ in Maine, according to this analysis

Those are fighting words.

A financial news website says that Bangor is the “laziest city” in the state, based on the percentage of people who report doing some kind of physical activity on their time off. Big caveat: it appears that the site actually looked at the Bangor Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the towns surrounding Bangor.

According to the site, slightly more than 75 percent of Bangor-area adults said they regularly exercise, compared with 78.6 percent in the state.

The site, 24/7 Wall St., used data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

Its findings come from comparing the reported physical activity of people in each metro area with the rest of the state. It also considered data like educational attainment and median household income.

According to the site:

Of all adults in the metro area, 31.7% are obese, slightly higher than Maine’s 27.9% obesity rate. Adults in Bangor are less healthy than Maine adults overall by other measures. When surveyed, adults in the metro area reported feeling physically unhealthy for 4.0 days out of the last month on average, about half a day more than the statewide response.

 

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Dan MacLeod

About Dan MacLeod

Dan MacLeod is the managing editor of the Bangor Daily News. He's an Orland native who moved to Portland in 2002 and now lives in Unity. He's been a journalist since 2008, and previously worked for the New York Post and the Brooklyn Paper.