Arizona ranked among the most sinful states in the country

PHOENIX — When it comes to vice, Arizona isn’t so nice.

That’s according to sin rankings done by a personal finance website with Mardi Gras just around the corner.

Arizona checked in at No. 10 in WalletHub’s list of the most sinful states for 2019.

WalletHub compared the 50 states across 43 key indicators of immorality broken down into categories representing the seven deadly sins: anger/hatred, jealousy, excesses/vices, greed, lust, vanity and laziness.

Arizona’s biggest sin lied in the jealousy category, and the state ranked within the top 20 for anger/hatred, vanity and laziness.

The top five most sinful states were No. 5 Tennessee, No. 4 Texas, No. 3 California, No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Nevada.

Nevada, home of Sin City (aka Las Vegas), ranked highest in greed and landed in the top five for jealousy, excesses/vices and laziness.

Other states, however, are more well-behaved, like No. 50 Vermont and No. 49 Maine.

Both states have the fewest violent crimes and thefts per capita.