The Hammocks makes Florida’s top 10 on 2 lists
The Hammocks is ranked on 31 lists against the 635 Florida towns with 2,500+ residents. It makes the top 10 on 2 and the top quarter on 5.
The lists The Hammocks does best on
Each list ranks every FL town with 2,500+ residents. Tap one to see the whole list with The Hammocks marked.
1 spot from the top 10 for walkable streets
Lists where The Hammocks sits just outside a milestone, and what it would take to get in.
The Hammocks lands in the top half on 12 of 21 lists
Each dot is The Hammocks’s spot on one list: the left end is #1 in FL, the right end is last. Areas where The Hammocks does best come first.
Milder winters than 86% of Florida
Not better or worse, just The Hammocks’s character, from the lists where neither end is the “good” one. The most distinctive come first.
The Hammocks out-ranks 0 of its 1 ranked neighbors
Head to head on the lists where both towns are ranked: a point for each list where one town places higher. Tap a town for its own rankings.
Where The Hammocks lands in every FL ranking
38 lists from Census, school, health, library, crime, climate and land data. Tap any list to see every town on it.
Health
Healthiest#1 Bay Hill · 98 / 100
#240
H
Lowest obesity#1 Highland Beach · 20%
#110
Fewest smokers#1 Pelican Bay · 5%
#52
N
Most active#1 Nocatee · 15%
#455
Fewest uninsured#1 Longboat Key · 4%
#553
Lowest depression#1 Olympia Heights · 12%
#7
Closest to a top hospital#1 Fernandina Beach · 0.2 mi
#6 Outdoors
Most conserved land#1 Tierra Verde · 58.9%
#179
Most trails#1 Lely · 6.3 mi / sq mi
#251
Most walkable#1 West Miami · 544 / sq mi
#11 
People
Most educated#1 Indian River Shores · 79.3%
#224
F
Youngest#1 Florida Gulf Coast University · 19.5
#289
Oldest#1 Timber Pines · 74.8
#347
Most residents 65+#1 The Villages · 85.2%
#388
Most kids#1 Wauchula · 39.3%
#270 
Cost of living
Most affordable#1 Silver Springs · 0.4 yrs
#486
Cheapest rent#1 Chattahoochee · $613/mo
#553
Lowest property tax#1 Silver Springs · $199/yr
#487
Rent easiest to afford#1 Milton · 23.2%
#228 Getting around
P Shortest commute#1 Pensacola Station · 9.7 min #579Climate
Mildest winters#1 Key West · 64.8°
#81
Hottest summers#1 Ave Maria · 92.7°
#249
Coolest summers#1 Key Largo · 89.0°
#297
Longest growing season#1 Arcadia · 324 days
Wettest#1 Destin · 64 in
#89 Housing
Vacation-home towns#1 Lower Grand Lagoon · 57.1%
#524
Most new homes#1 Westlake · 146.3 per 1,000
Fastest-rising home prices#1 West Little River · +102.6%
#157
Housing hasn't kept up#1 Miami Shores · 63.2 per home
Libraries
Most-used libraries#1 North Miami Beach · 20.3 per resident
Most library borrowing#1 Winter Park · 17.4 per resident
Safety
Safest#1 Gulf Breeze · 4.8
The number on the right is The Hammocks’s spot. All of Florida’s rankings, with the map → · National lists and other states: all rankings.
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- 2,500+ residents. Census estimates for smaller towns carry margins of error too wide to rank fairly, so they sit out every FL list.
- One town, one row. A city that is both a city and a town in Census data, or a village inside a town, is counted once.
- Ties share a rank. Towns on one weather station, one school district or one CDC estimate share a figure, so they share a spot (T).
- No “worst” lists. Lists rank toward the good end, and share cards are made only for the top half. Age, snow and the like are character, not grades.
U.S. Census Bureau (American Community Survey 5-year, 2010 and 2020 censuses, Building Permits Survey), U.S. Department of Education, FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CDC PLACES, Medicare Care Compare, IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FHFA House Price Index, NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, USGS PAD-US and OpenStreetMap. Each list explains its own method.