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 (5757 respondents)
Average scores by state:
- Alabama - 9 (85 respondents)
- Alaska - 9 (15 respondents)
- Arizona - 10 (85 respondents)
- Arkansas - 8 (32 respondents)
- California - 10 (699 respondents)
- Colorado - 9 (112 respondents)
- Connecticut - 9 (127 respondents)
- Delaware - 7 (20 respondents)
- Florida - 10 (247 respondents)
- Georgia - 10 (181 respondents)
- Hawaii - 10 (19 respondents)
- Idaho - 0 (126 respondents)
- Illinois - 9 (233 respondents)
- Indiana - 8 (55 respondents)
- Iowa - 8 (51 respondents)
- Kansas - 9 (60 respondents)
- Kentucky - 9 (39 respondents)
- Louisiana - 9 (57 respondents)
- Maine - 8 (20 respondents)
- Maryland - 9 (117 respondents)
- Massachusetts - 9 (216 respondents)
- Michigan - 8 (134 respondents)
- Minnesota - 9 (296 respondents)
- Mississippi - 11 (32 respondents)
- Missouri - 9 (86 respondents)
- Montana - 6 (14 respondents)
- Nebraska - 9 (39 respondents)
- Nevada - 10 (34 respondents)
- New Hampshire - 9 (38 respondents)
- New Jersey - 10 (276 respondents)
- New Mexico - 7 (18 respondents)
- New York - 10 (268 respondents)
- North Carolina - 8 (155 respondents)
- North Dakota - 7 (12 respondents)
- Ohio - 9 (155 respondents)
- Oklahoma - 10 (58 respondents)
- Oregon - 7 (70 respondents)
- Pennsylvania - 9 (224 respondents)
- Rhode Island - 8 (24 respondents)
- South Carolina - 7 (53 respondents)
- South Dakota - 6 (9 respondents)
- Tennessee - 9 (84 respondents)
- Texas - 10 (535 respondents)
- Utah - 8 (55 respondents)
- Vermont - 7 (11 respondents)
- Virginia - 10 (188 respondents)
- Washington - 9 (156 respondents)
- Washington, DC - 10 (33 respondents)
- West Virginia - 7 (9 respondents)
- Wisconsin - 8 (87 respondents)
- Wyoming - 10 (8 respondents)