What is your Risk Number?
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After selecting your financial goals on My-Risk-O-Meter, for example retirement, college savings, income, wealth accumulation or paying down debt, we want to get to know your financial status. Is there anything interesting in terms of employment, inheritance, major expenses, etc.? Are you currently saving for retirement? How much financial risk can you take in the next six months?
Your risk number will then be generated by My-Risk-O-Meter and you can move forward from there to find out more with one of our financial advisors.
Risk Numbers by State
7 DEC 2018
HTTPS://BLOG.RISKALYZE.COM/RISKIEST-STATES
Jason Zweig featured this data in his article, When Your Neighbors Move In to Your Investment Portfolio, for The Wall Street Journal.
Since 2013, advisors have been using the Risk Number® to quantify risk and empower fearless investing for their clients. When we decided to look deeper into Risk Number data, we had some questions about what we’d find: what kind of patterns would emerge city by city, or state by state? Would there be other differences we couldn’t quantify? What if we’ve done all this scientific research and risk really is just the same old semantics? [spoiler: it’s not]
The average Risk Number by state ranges from as low as 52.86 to as high as 62.25, and we applied a multiplier to assign an extrapolated Risk Number to every state for illustrative purposes. The results were fascinating, and we’re excited to finally share it with you.
We collected this data over seven years and are still discovering just how many outside factors contribute to an investor’s Risk Number. Risk tolerance is such a multivariable dynamic that placing investors into subjective buckets based on their age simply doesn’t cut it.
We believe investors are individuals, and our research has confirmed that belief time and time again.
So, how risky is your state?
Alabama
32nd Riskiest
Ranked 46th Overall by US News
Has no official nickname
Arizona
39th Riskiest
Ranked 12th in Infrastructure and 39th in Quality of Life
The copper dome of Arizona’s capitol building is made with the equivalent of 4,800,000 pennies
California
19th Riskiest
Ranked 4th in Economy and 50th in Quality of Life
Riskalyze was founded in Auburn, California
Colorado
12th Riskiest
Ranked 1st in Economy and 5th in Health Care Quality
Marijuana is a $1.56 billion-dollar industry in Colorado as of 2018
Connecticut
42nd Riskiest
Ranked 4th in Health Care and 41st in Infrastructure
Connecticut imposed the first speed limit for a motor vehicle in 1901, a blistering 12 mph
Delaware
22nd Riskiest
Ranked 7th in Opportunity and 10th in Economy
Delaware is only 100 miles long and 35 miles wide
Florida
47th Riskiest
Ranked 15th Overall by US News
Rumor has it: Floridians are never more than 60 miles away from salt water
Georgia
9th Riskiest
Ranked 10th in Growth and 45th in Health Care Access
Bank of America Plaza Atlanta is the tallest building in the southeast and home to Riskalyze’s East Coast headquarters
Hawaii
38th Riskiest
Ranked 1st in Health Care and 23rd in Economy
From 1847 to 1898, Hawaii had it own currency known as the dala
Idaho
34th Riskiest
Ranked 12th Overall by US News
Idaho’s most famous crop (potatoes) aren’t native to the area—they’re from New Hampshire
Illinois
31st Riskiest
Ranked 50th in Fiscal Stability and 13th in Energy
Generates more nuclear power than any other state
Indiana
18th Riskiest
Ranked 11th in Opportunity and 48th in Quality of Life
The town of Santa Claus, Indiana receives over 400,000 letters from children during the holidays
Iowa
16th Riskiest
Ranked the #1 State Overall by US News
The best thing since sliced bread, which was actually invented in Iowa in 1912
Kansas
33rd Riskiest
Ranked 42nd in Economy
Is there anything more perfect than a state at the country’s geographic center having a 50 Risk Number?
Kentucky
29th Riskiest
Ranked 9th in Crime & Corrections and 45th in Economy
Bourbon barrels outnumber people in Kentucky
Louisiana
30th Riskiest
Ranked 50th in Opportunity and 49th in Education
Louisiana has over 2 million wild alligators
Maine
24th Riskiest
Ranked 1st in Crime & Corrections and 37th in Economy
No one knows how Maine got its name
Maryland
6th Riskiest
Ranked 2nd in Opportunity and 11th in Education
The official state sport of Maryland is Jousting
Massachusetts
25th Riskiest
Ranked 1st in Education and 8th Overall by US News
Site of the Fearless Investing Summit in 2019
Michigan
17th Riskiest
Ranked 4th in Affordability and 36th in Education
Detroit has its own currency known as the “Cheers”
Minnesota
40th Riskiest
Ranked 2nd Overall by US News
Home to the biggest mall in the country, the Mall of America
Mississippi
44th Riskiest
Ranked 49th Overall by US News
The Old Spanish Fort Museum in Pascagoula, MS has the world’s largest shrimp on display
Missouri
8th Riskiest
Ranked 10th in Internet Access and 15th in Quality of Life
“Show Me” your neighbors—Missouri is bordered by eight different states
Montana
45th Riskiest
Ranked 26th in Economy and 7th in Energy
Montana’s Glacier National Park is the only place in the US where water flows to the Pacific, Atlantic, and Hudson Bay
Nevada
36th Riskiest
Ranked 5th in Infrastructure and 44th in Education
Even though California is called the Golden State, most gold in the U.S. actual comes from Nevada
New Hampshire
35th Riskiest
Ranked 5th Overall by US News
Live Free or Die: New Hampshire was the first colony to declare independence from England
New Jersey
46th Riskiest
Ranked 2nd in Education and 49th in Fiscal Stability
The famous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton took place in Weehawken, New Jersey
New Mexico
48th Riskiest
Ranked 8th in Quality of Life and 50th in Education
The first atom bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1945
North Carolina
27th Riskiest
Ranked 6th in Fiscal Stability
North Carolina experiences a hurricane every 3.5 years
North Dakota
4th Riskiest
Ranked 1st in Quality of Life and 2nd in Fiscal Stability
Being the #1 producer of honey makes life pretty sweet
Ohio
20th Riskiest
Ranked 21st in Public Safety and 32nd in Economy
25 NASA astronauts have hailed from Ohio
Oklahoma
15th Riskiest
Ranked 9th in Social Environment and 48th in Health Care
‘Tis the season—Oklahoma’s state flower is mistletoe
Oregon
11th Riskiest
Ranked 3rd in Infrastructure and 45th in Affordability
Marijuana sales in Oregon were over $777 Million in 2018
Pennsylvania
43rd Riskiest
Ranked 16th in Opportunity and 44th in Quality of Life
The Foxburg Country Club in Foxburg, PA is the oldest golf course in the US
Rhode Island
23rd Riskiest
Ranked 8th in Public Safety and 8th in Health Care
Rhode Island is only 48 miles long and 37 miles wide
South Carolina
21st Riskiest
Ranked 15th in Economy and 48th in Education
On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began at Fort Sumter in South Carolina
South Dakota
28th Riskiest
Ranked 5th in Quality of Life
Home to Mount Rushmore
Tennessee
7th Riskiest
Ranked 5th in Fiscal Stability and 46th in Public Safety
Major industries include mining, farming, music, and uranium products
Texas
13th Riskiest
Ranked 8th in Economy and 26th in Energy
The Texas oil boom of the early 20th century is known as the Gusher Age
Utah
26th Riskiest
Ranked 1st in Fiscal Stability, 2nd in Economy, and 3rd in Education
Utah was ranked the most charitable state
Virginia
10th Riskiest
Ranked 7th in Pubic Safety and 41st in Growth
Virginia is the birthplace of the most US Presidents (8)
Washington
37th Riskiest
Ranked 2nd in Health Care and 3rd in Economy
There are over 3,000 glaciers in Washington
Washington DC
5th Riskiest
Washington DC median household income: $82,372
DC loves its wine—it drinks more rosé per capita than anywhere else in the US
Wisconsin
41st Riskiest
Ranked 3rd in Quality of Life and 8th in Opportunity
Wisconsin produces 25% of the nation’s cheese
Wyoming
14th Riskiest
Ranked 9th in Fiscal Stability and 49th in Growth
According to the National Park Service, more people are injured by bison than grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park