A recent article in the Daily Press reports that SmartAsset, a financial technology company that tracks national real estate and financial trends, found York County to be the fifth-happiest county in the nation because of its marriage rate.
York County boast's a 62.3 percent marriage rate — the 11th highest in U.S. Other metrics used in the survey include physical health, personal finances and economic security, which also help the county's ranking.
The survey also highlighted the county's low poverty rate of 5.7 percent, which ranks as the 23rd lowest out of any U.S. county with a population over 50,000.
Overall, York County joins two other Virginia counties — Loudon, the happiest county in the country, and Fairfax, which ranked third — as among the happiest in the nation, according to the survey.
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