Each state's infrastructure, ranked worst to best

Each state's infrastructure, ranked worst to best Oregon was ranked among the states with one of the best infrastructure systems in the country. Brooke Tierney/Getty Images Infrastructure has a big impact on the quality of day-to-day life.Whether you're struggling to get around because of poor road quality, unreliable public transportation, or your neighborhood experiences frequent power outages, weak infrastructure can make everyday life more difficult.It's also something that varies massively from state to state.US News & World Report compiled a ranking of states with the best and worst infrastructure, which forms part of its annual ranking of the best states to live in.To determine the quality of each state's infrastructure, US News & World Report examined three categories: energy, internet access, and transportation.For energy, it calculated the average retail electricity price, power grid reliability, and renewable energy usage.Internet access was analyzed by looking at the broadband subscription internet and access to high-speed broadband internet.For transport, the metrics were commute time, bridge quality, road quality, and public transit usage. Each state was then ranked based on these metrics.US News & World Report prioritized recent and standardized data from government sources to compile the ranking.Here is the infrastructure quality of all 50 states, from worst to best. 50. West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia. Leonid Andronov/Getty Images Transportation: 49thEnergy: 49thInternet access: 49th 49. Mississippi Jackson, Mississippi. CRobertson/Getty Images Transportation: 46thEnergy: 47thInternet access: 48th 48. Alaska Anchorage, Alaska. Jacob Boomsma/Getty Images Transportation: 12thEnergy: 48thInternet access: 47th 47. Rhode Island Providence, Rhode Island. Wirestock/Getty Images Transportation: 50thEnergy: 44thInternet access: 36th 46. Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana. George Dodd/Getty Images Transportation: 48thEnergy: 38thInternet access: 44th 45. New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico. GummyBone/Getty Images Transportation: 37thEnergy: 16thInternet access: 50th 44. Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii. Iryna Olkhova/Getty Images Transportation: 28thEnergy: 50thInternet access: 16th 43. Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. f11photo/Getty Images Transportation: 47thEnergy: 36thInternet access: 34th 42. Michigan Detroit, Michigan. Vadym Terelyuk/Getty Images Transportation: 38thEnergy: 37thInternet access: 38th 41. Maine Portland, Maine. Sean Pavone/Getty Images/iStockphoto Transportation: 43rdEnergy: 40thInternet access: 32nd 40. Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas. Brandon Olafsson/Getty Images Transportation: 33rdEnergy: 33rdInternet access: 41st 39. Virginia Virginia Beach, Virginia. Kyle Little/Getty Images Transportation: 34thEnergy: 28thInternet access: 37th 38. Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts. xbrchx/Getty Images Transportation: 45thEnergy: 43rdInternet access: 14th 37. Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin Jon Mattrisch/Getty Images Transportation: 31stEnergy: 12thInternet access: 42nd 36. Wyoming Cheyenne, Wyoming. Ceri Breeze/Getty Images Transportation: 6thEnergy: 18thInternet access: 46th 35. Missouri Kansas City, Missouri. Garrett Smith/Getty Images Transportation: 36thEnergy: 22ndInternet access: 33rd 34. New York New York City, New York. william87/Getty Images Transportation: 32ndEnergy: 35thInternet access: 27th 33. Montana Billings, Montana. George Dodd/Getty Images Transportation: 11thEnergy: 14thInternet access: 45th 32. California Los Angeles, California. frankpeters/Getty Images Transportation: 42ndEnergy: 46thInternet access: 8th 31. Ohio Columbus, Ohio. Sean Pavone/Getty Images/iStockphoto Transportation: 16thEnergy: 32ndInternet access: 39th 30. Alabama Huntsville, Alabama. ChrisBoswell/Getty Images/iStockphoto Transportation: 21stEnergy: 19thInternet access: 40th 29. South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina. Kruck20/Getty Images/iStockphoto Transportation: 40thEnergy: 20thInternet access: 25th 28. Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky. littleny/Getty Images Transportation: 17thEnergy: 30thInternet access: 30th 27. Idaho Boise, Idaho. christiannafzger/Getty Images/iStockphoto Transportation: 20thEnergy: 9thInternet access: 43rd 26. North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina. Leonid Andronov/Getty Images Transportation: 23rdEnergy: 26thInternet access: 29th 25. Connecticut Bridgeport, Connecticut. Andrea DiSavino/Getty Images Transportation: 39thEnergy: 45thInternet access: 3rd 24. Maryland Baltimore, Maryland. Sean Pavone/Getty Images Transportation: 44thEnergy: 29thInternet access: 7th 23. Arizona Phoenix, Arizona. Sean Pavone/Getty Images Transportation: 25thEnergy: 17thInternet access: 23rd 22. Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana. Nicholas Klein/Getty Images Transportation: 13thEnergy: 27thInternet access: 26th 21. Illinois Chicago, Illinois. Iryna Olkhova/Getty Images Transportation: 29thEnergy: 15thInternet access: 19th 20. Georgia Atlanta, Georgia. Sean Davis/Getty Images Transportation: 18thEnergy: 34thInternet access: 12th 19. Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. RudyBalasko/Getty Images Transportation: 19thEnergy: 11thInternet access: 28th 18. New Hampshire Manchester, New Hampshire. Sean Pavone/Getty Images/iStockphoto Transportation: 41stEnergy: 39thInternet access: 1st 17. Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee. Bilanol/Getty Images Transportation: 14thEnergy: 31stInternet access: 13th 16. Texas Houston, Texas. Scott Flathouse/Getty Images Transportation: 27thEnergy: 24thInternet access: 10th 15. Iowa Des Moines, Iowa. Sean Pavone/Getty Images Transportation: 35thEnergy: 2ndInternet access: 35th 14. Vermont Burlington, Vermont. Sean Pavone/Getty Images Transportation: 1stEnergy: 42ndInternet access: 20th 13. Delaware Wilmington, Delaware. ChrisBoswell/Getty Images/iStockphoto Transportation: 8thEnergy: 25thInternet access: 18th 12. New Jersey Newark, New Jersey. Leonid Andronov/Getty Images Transportation: 15thEnergy: 41stInternet access: 6th 11. Florida Jacksonville, Florida. otman lazrak/Getty Images Transportation: 22ndEnergy: 13thInternet access: 11th 10. Colorado Denver, Colorado. Nicholas Campbell/Getty Images Transportation: 24thEnergy: 23rdInternet access: 5th 9. Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sean Pavone/Getty Images Transportation: 2ndEnergy: 8thInternet access: 24th 8. Washington Seattle, Washington. Engel Ching/Getty Images Transportation: 30thEnergy: 6thInternet access: 9th 7. North Dakota Fargo, North Dakota. Sanghwan Kim/Getty Images Transportation: 7thEnergy: 5thInternet access: 21st 6. South Dakota Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Sanghwan Kim/Getty Images Transportation: 26thEnergy: 1stInternet access: 31st 5. Kansas Wichita, Kansas. Sean Pavone/Getty Images/iStockphoto Transportation: 3rdEnergy: 10thInternet access: 15th 4. Utah Salt Lake City, Utah. Sean Pavone/Getty Images Transportation: 10thEnergy: 21stInternet access: 4th 3. Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska. Sean Pavone/Getty Images Transportation: 5thEnergy: 3rdInternet access: 22nd 2. Oregon Portland, Oregon. Nicholas Klein/Getty Images Transportation: 4thEnergy: 4thInternet access: 17th 1. Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada. lucky-photographer/Getty Images Transportation: 9thEnergy: 7thInternet access: 2nd Read next Roya is a reporter on Business Insider's Editorial Partnerships team. She is based in London. Before joining Business Insider, she worked as a reporter at financial newswire Alliance News and was an intern at The Wall Street Journal. Roya graduated from City St George's, University of London with an MA in International Journalism. Infrastructure Energy Internet More