States with the best and worst road quality, ranked

Part of the Tail of the Dragon road near the Tennessee and North Carolina border. Eifel Kreutz/Getty Images/iStockphoto Potholes, cracks, and uneven road surfaces are a nuisance at best — and hazardous at worst.Whether you encounter them occasionally or on your daily commute to work can depend on which state you live in.Each year, US News & World Report publishes a ranking of the best states to live in, which it calculates from a range of categories, including infrastructure.As part of its infrastructure ranking, US News & World Report rated the quality of each state's transportation using metrics such as commute time, public transit usage, and road quality.To evaluate road quality, it used data from the Federal Highway Administration, a division of the US Department of Transportation. The data reflects the percentage of roads in each state rated in poor condition.The Federal Highway Administration assesses road conditions by examining defects such as cracks, uneven surfaces, and grooves.US News & World Report used this data to rate each state's transportation quality and, when coupled with energy and internet access, its overall infrastructure ranking.Here is each state's road quality, ranked from best to worst. 1. Kansas Wichita, Kansas. MattGush/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 3rdOverall infrastructure rank: 5th 2. Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee. digidreamgrafix/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 14thOverall infrastructure rank: 17th 3. Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana. Joesboy/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 13thOverall infrastructure rank: 22nd 4. Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska. f1monaco31/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 5thOverall infrastructure rank: 3rd 5. Wyoming Jackson, Wyoming. Riderolga/Getty Images/iStockphoto Overall transportation rank: 6thOverall infrastructure rank: 36th 6. Vermont Burlington, Vermont. Kirkikis/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 1stOverall infrastructure rank: 14th 7. North Dakota Fargo, North Dakota. gnagel/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 7thOverall infrastructure rank: 7th 8. New Jersey Atlantic City, New Jersey. M. Suhail/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 15thOverall infrastructure rank: 12th 9. Georgia Atlanta, Georgia. Kruck20/Getty Images/iStockphoto Overall transportation rank: 18thOverall infrastructure rank: 20th 10. Iowa Des Moines, Iowa. Locus Stock LLC/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 35thOverall infrastructure rank: 15th 11. Oregon Portland, Oregon. Brandon Olafsson/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 4thOverall infrastructure rank: 2nd 12. Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Nicholas Klein/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 19thOverall infrastructure rank: 19th 13. Alabama Birmingham, Alabama. Bardhok Ndoji/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 21stOverall infrastructure rank: 30th 14. Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky. Roberto Galan/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 17thOverall infrastructure rank: 28th 15. Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota. RudyBalasko/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 2ndOverall infrastructure rank: 9th 16. South Dakota Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Jacob Boomsma/Getty Images/iStockphoto Overall transportation rank: 26thOverall infrastructure rank: 6th 17. North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina. Viyaleta Herasimovich/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 23rdOverall infrastructure rank: 26th 18. Montana Bozeman, Montana. GummyBone/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 11thOverall infrastructure rank: 33rd 19. Idaho Boise, Idaho. ChrisBoswell/Getty Images/iStockphoto Overall transportation rank: 20thOverall infrastructure rank: 27th 20. Florida Miami, Florida. felixmizioznikov/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 22ndOverall infrastructure rank: 11th 21. Maine Portland, Maine. Ray Tan/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 43rdOverall infrastructure rank: 41st 22. Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada. Dmitry Vinogradov/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 9thOverall infrastructure rank: 1st 23. Ohio Cleveland, Ohio. InfiniteImpactStudios/Getty Images/iStockphoto Overall transportation rank: 16thOverall infrastructure rank: 31st 24. Delaware Wilmington, Delaware. Dmitry Vinogradov/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 8thOverall infrastructure rank: 13th 25. New Hampshire Manchester, New Hampshire. MarkNH/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 41stOverall infrastructure rank: 18th 26. Utah Salt Lake City, Utah. Gunnar Larsen/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 10thOverall infrastructure rank: 4th 27. Illinois Chicago, Illinois. Iryna Olkhova/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 29thOverall infrastructure rank: 21st 28. South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina. Bodhichita/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 40thOverall infrastructure rank: 29th 29. Virginia Virginia Beach, Virginia. Kyle Little/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 34thOverall infrastructure rank: 39th 30. Texas Houston, Texas. Sean Pavone/Getty Images/iStockphoto Overall transportation rank: 27thOverall infrastructure rank: 16th 31. Michigan Detroit, Michigan Vadym Terelyuk/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 38thOverall infrastructure rank: 42nd 32. Missouri St. Louis, Missouri. Sean Pavone/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 36thOverall infrastructure rank: 35th 33. Alaska Anchorage, Alaska. Serhii Horban/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 12thOverall infrastructure rank: 48th 34. Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Nicholas Klein/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 31stOverall infrastructure rank: 37th 35. Colorado Denver, Colorado. otman lazrak/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 24thOverall infrastructure rank: 10th 36. New York New York City, New York. deberarr/Getty Images/iStockphoto Overall transportation rank: 32ndOverall infrastructure rank: 34th 37. Arizona Phoenix, Arizona. Jaclyne Ortiz/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 25thOverall infrastructure rank: 23rd 38. West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia. Sean Pavone/Getty Images/iStockphoto Overall transportation rank: 49thOverall infrastructure rank: 50th 39. Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana. Marcus Jones/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 48thOverall infrastructure rank: 46th 40. Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tomoyuki Maruyama/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 47thOverall infrastructure rank: 43rd 41. Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas. csfotoimages/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 33rdOverall infrastructure rank: 40th 42. Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts. Chris LaBasco/Getty Images/iStockphoto Overall transportation rank: 45thOverall infrastructure rank: 38th 43. Maryland Baltimore, Maryland. ASphotowed/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 44thOverall infrastructure rank: 24th 44. Mississippi Jackson, Mississippi. Leonid Andronov/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 46thOverall infrastructure rank: 49th 45. Connecticut New Haven, Connecticut. Sanghwan Kim/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 39thOverall infrastructure rank: 25th 46. Washington Seattle, Washington. karandaev/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 30thOverall infrastructure rank: 8th 47. New Mexico Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sean Pavone/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 37thOverall infrastructure rank: 45th 48. California Los Angeles, California. Larry Gibson/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 42ndOverall infrastructure rank: 32nd 49. Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii. Iryna Olkhova/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 28thOverall infrastructure rank: 44th 50. Rhode Island Providence, Rhode Island. Wirestock/Getty Images Overall transportation rank: 50thOverall infrastructure rank: 47th 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 Road Trip transport More