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What percentage of American adults didn't feel nervous, anxious or on edge at all in the last two weeks?

59% of American adults didn't feel nervous, anxious or on edge at all in the last two weeks - about 59 in every 100, or 6 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.

Where this number comes from

Survey

Household Pulse Survey

What it measured

HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item ANXIOUS (“Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge?”), counting responses 1=Not at all, as a share of adults who answered (3.3% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table health2a. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 12,301.

Population

U.S. adults aged 18 and over

Year

2026

95% confidence interval

56.29% to 61.71% (derived from the published standard error)

Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data

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