Atlanta has been named as the worst city for sleeping, followed by Nashville, Houston, New York and St. Louis. This was the finding of a new research study based on survey data, and the factors that cause sleep deprivation, like commute time, divorce and unemployment rates.
The best cities for sleeping are Anaheim, Los Angeles, Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Minneapolis and Chicago.
Atlanta residents reported an average of 9.7 days of poor sleep each month, more than the 8.4 average reported for the 50 metropolitan areas studied. The commute time was about 34 minutes in Atlanta, above the 30 minute average. Divorce and unemployment rates were slightly above average as well.
The report was put together by Bert Sperling, a researcher who has compiled lists of "best places" to work, live and play for Money and Newsweek magazines and other publications. For this report, he drew information from a national telephone survey done by the federal government and from a demographic research firm and from government statistics.
Sanofi-Aventis, a drug company that makes a sleeping pill, funded this latest report.
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