The 10 best states to live in as a working father, according to a new study

WalletHub released a study on the best states for working fathers, based on factors like work-life balance and child care.Drazen Zigic/Getty Images

• WalletHub released a study ahead of Father's Day on the best states to live as a working dad.
• The study was released ahead of Father's Day, which is this Sunday (still time to get a gift!).

Ahead of Father's Day on Sunday, finance site WalletHub released a new study on the best states to live in as a working dad.

About 71% of mothers now work to help support their family, compared to 93.7% of married fathers, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by WalletHub. As the rate of working mothers has increased over time, the share of house work and child care has shifted closer to even between parents than it has been in US history. Analyzing about two dozen factors, WalletHub worked to find which state's working fathers were in the best circumstances.

The top 10 is dominated by several northeast and Midwestern states like Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin, while the lowest scoring states were largely in the southern and southwestern US like New Mexico, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

The four categories WalletHub evaluated were:

• Economic and social wellbeing: Data regarding median family income, cost of living, along with unemployment rates and poverty levels for fathers and kids, respectively.
• Work-life balance: Takes things into account things like WalletHub's previous "best states for remote work" study from earlier this year, along with average commutes, length of work day, time dads spend on child care, and the average parental leave policy in the state.
• Child care: Average cost of child care, quality of day care services, availability of pediatricians, and quality of school systems.
• Health: Rate of uninsured adult men, mental health surveys and suicide rate, as well as the life expectancy in a state, the rate of physically active adult men, and cost of medical care for adults.

Those categories and factors were assigned different weights to create an overall score out of 100 points, which is how the states were ranked from one to 51, including Washington, DC. Here's the top 10 states for working fathers, according to WalletHub: