SELF Magazine has ranked St. Louis 95th out of 100 cities on it’s annual healthiest big cities for women in America survey.
The magazine says it used used 50 categories from 7,700 pieces of data including death and disease rates, environmental indicators, community resources and lifestyle habits.
A polling company in Portland, Ore., did the survey. “All data is women-specific and weighted for age and population size.”
Here’s how St. Louis finished:

St. Louis:
Population: 2,809,283
2009 ranking: 95 out of 100
2008 ranking: 98 out of 100

Good points:

• Women report 35 percent fewer rapes than average (although other violent crimes are more common).
• There are more doctors per capita compared to the average, and women are slightly more likely to have health insurance.
• Asthma is less common than average.

Bad points:

• Smoking rates are high, and women are more likely than average to die of lung cancer.
• Rates of high cholesterol, hypertension and heart disease deaths are above average.
• Below-average exercise rates, there are fewer health clubs than average and relatively few women walk or bike to work.

Following are the top 10 cities and bottom 100.
The top 10
1. Burlington–South Burlington, Vermont.
2. Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, Md.
3. Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine.
4. Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, Mass.
5. San Francisco-Oakland.
6. Honolulu, Hawaii.
7. Stamford-Norwalk-Bridgeport, Conn.
8. Madison, Wisc.
9. Santa Barbara–Santa Maria, Calif.
10. Fargo, N.D.

Bottom 10
90. Dayton, Ohio.
91. Daytona Beach–Deltona–Ormond Beach, Fla.
92. Las Vegas–Paradise, Nev.
93. El Paso, Texas.
94. Birmingham-Hoover, Ala.
95. St. Louis.
96. Toledo, Ohio.
97. Indianapolis-Carmel, Ind.
98. Oklahoma City, Okla.
99. Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, Mich.
100. Tulsa, Okla.