Rate your community's pressure
What your scores say about your community:
- 0 – Pressure free birthday parties in your home town. Brag about it on our blog. Don’t move until your children are adults.
- 1-3 - Low pressure community. Help keep it that way by spreading the word about Birthdays Without Pressure.
- 4-6 – Moderate pressure community. Parties are an area of stress in your community. Get support on our blog and talk to your neighbors about ways to lower the local pressure.
- 7-10 – High pressure community. You probably live in a land of hyper-parenting. Find allies and start a local Birthdays Without Pressure group.
- 11-15 – Extreme pressure community. Seek out an ally and begin the counter-revolution one birthday party at a time.
- 16-20 – Have a moving company on speed dial.
National average score: 9 (5420 respondents)
Average scores by state:
- Alabama - 9 (79 respondents)
- Alaska - 9 (15 respondents)
- Arizona - 10 (80 respondents)
- Arkansas - 8 (32 respondents)
- California - 10 (668 respondents)
- Colorado - 9 (111 respondents)
- Connecticut - 10 (119 respondents)
- Delaware - 7 (20 respondents)
- Florida - 10 (234 respondents)
- Georgia - 10 (177 respondents)
- Hawaii - 10 (19 respondents)
- Idaho - 1 (61 respondents)
- Illinois - 9 (223 respondents)
- Indiana - 8 (53 respondents)
- Iowa - 8 (50 respondents)
- Kansas - 9 (55 respondents)
- Kentucky - 9 (36 respondents)
- Louisiana - 9 (56 respondents)
- Maine - 8 (18 respondents)
- Maryland - 9 (109 respondents)
- Massachusetts - 9 (197 respondents)
- Michigan - 8 (131 respondents)
- Minnesota - 9 (272 respondents)
- Mississippi - 11 (31 respondents)
- Missouri - 9 (79 respondents)
- Montana - 6 (13 respondents)
- Nebraska - 9 (38 respondents)
- Nevada - 10 (28 respondents)
- New Hampshire - 9 (38 respondents)
- New Jersey - 10 (260 respondents)
- New Mexico - 9 (15 respondents)
- New York - 10 (252 respondents)
- North Carolina - 8 (143 respondents)
- North Dakota - 6 (11 respondents)
- Ohio - 9 (149 respondents)
- Oklahoma - 10 (57 respondents)
- Oregon - 7 (65 respondents)
- Pennsylvania - 9 (212 respondents)
- Rhode Island - 8 (24 respondents)
- South Carolina - 7 (51 respondents)
- South Dakota - 6 (8 respondents)
- Tennessee - 9 (82 respondents)
- Texas - 10 (519 respondents)
- Utah - 7 (54 respondents)
- Vermont - 7 (11 respondents)
- Virginia - 10 (182 respondents)
- Washington - 9 (149 respondents)
- Washington, DC - 10 (33 respondents)
- West Virginia - 7 (9 respondents)
- Wisconsin - 8 (84 respondents)
- Wyoming - 10 (8 respondents)