The end of the year is arriving and that means it’s high time for Americans from coast to coast to decide which aspects of their lives they want to work on improving in the new year, with boundless resolutions to go around.
In states like Missouri, we can use online search interest totals to determine which themes Show Me State residents are focused on ahead of the dawn of the new year, with themes such as saving more money and traveling more leading the way as we march in 2025.
Heading into the last month of the year, people are thinking about what they accomplished in 2024 and what they want to achieve in 2025. At BetMissouri.com, we briefly broke from Missouri sports betting updates and used Google Trends to find and rank the top five most common New Year’s resolutions for Missouri residents. The search was conducted between December 1, 2023 – January 2, 2024. The ranking is based on search interest score.
Top 5 Missouri New Year’s Resolutions
Rank | Resolution | Search Interest Score |
1 | Save Money | 81 |
2 | Travel More | 76 |
3 | Read More | 73 |
4 | Limit Caffeine | 72 |
5 | Learn More | 69 |
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What Are Missourians Top New Year’s Resolutions?
Ranking atop the resolutions list in Missouri this year with a search interest score of 81 points was to save more money, beating out traveling more (76 search interest score) and reading more (73 search interest score).
Throw in two more resolutions; in limiting caffeine intake (72 search interest score) and learning more (69 search interest score) and you have the full rundown of Missouri’s top new year’s resolutions for the new year.
Still, none of those held the type of statewide sway that saving money did in Missouri this year, with financial prudence being the theme of the moment for Missouri residents, based on search interest scores at least.
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Author
Christopher Boan is a lead writer for BetMissouri.com, specializing in covering state issues. He has covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
