A new WalletHub study named its best states to live in in 2022. The financial website has ranked the Mountain State low in the past, as the worst economy in the country, the least fun state, and one of the worst states to have a baby in. The most recent study also ranked West Virginia toward the bottom at 41 of 50, but the state did rank high in a couple of categories. West Virginia ranked highest in homeownership rate in the U.S. West Virginia also ranked second overall in the “affordability” category, which was comprised of housing affordability, median annual property taxes, cost of living, median annual household income and homeownership rate. West Virginia also ranked high in the safety category, showing a low rate of violent crime and property crime rates, traffic-related fatalities per capita and total law enforcement per capita.