Healthiest Cities in Florida

Adult health outcomes and behaviors estimated by the CDC: obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes, smoking, mental distress, sleep and health insurance coverage.

8 cities ranked in Florida (of 96 nationwide).

Rank	City	Population	Score
31	St. Petersburg, FL Pinellas County	267,102	60.4
34	Cape Coral, FL Lee County	233,025	59.7
47	Port St. Lucie, FL St. Lucie County	258,575	51.9
50	Tampa, FL Hillsborough County	414,547	47.9
52	Orlando, FL Orange County	334,854	46.5
55	Miami, FL Miami-Dade County	487,014	43.2
64	Hialeah, FL Miami-Dade County	235,388	36.4
77	Jacksonville, FL Duval County	1,009,833	31.1

How this ranking works

Each metric is scored 0-100 by percentile against the other ranked cities, then blended using these weights:

Adults with obesity (lower is better) ×2
Adults with no leisure-time physical activity (lower is better) ×2
Adults with diabetes (lower is better) ×2
Adults with frequent mental distress (lower is better) ×2
Adults who currently smoke (lower is better) ×1
Adults sleeping under 7 hours (lower is better) ×1
Adults without health insurance (lower is better) ×1
Adults with a routine checkup ×1

Scores are relative to the cities in our dataset. About the data.

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Data: CDC PLACES