Drunkest Community in RI
Sunday, December 06, 2015
Which town in RI gets the most drunk? A new study evaluated numbers like the percentage of adults that are binge drinker and the percent that die in alcohol related deaths.
We love our restaurants and bars, but there is a downside. Over a 30-day period, more than 20% report drinking to excess.
The data crunched by Wall Street 24/7 finds the the Providence DMA is the drunkest.
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Rhode Island
> Drunkest city: Providence-Warwick
> Pct of MSA adults binge or heavy drinking: 20.4%
> Pct. of state adults binge or heavy drinking: 19.4%
> Pct of driving deaths alcohol related: 30.2%
Providence-Warwick is the only metropolitan area in Rhode Island. Despite claiming the highest excessive drinking rate in Rhode Island by default, Providence-Warwick could be a contender for any state’s heaviest drinking city. Over a 30-day period, 20.4% of area men and women report excessive drinking — 5.4 percentage points more than in the rest of the country. Alcohol-related driving fatalities are far less common in the Providence area than across Rhode Island, where 41.4% of fatal car accidents are tied to alcohol consumption, the fourth highest proportion compared to all states.
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