The 10 Best Places To Raise A Family In Florida For 2024

You don’t have to have a boatload of kids to keep your family entertained if you want to live in our second most family friendly city in Florida for 2019.

Why? Parkland has one of the highest percentages of families with kids on our list, so there will be plenty of kids to play with when you move here.

There are also plenty of high paying jobs, great schools, and it’s crazy safe.

Located in Southern Florida, just North of Miami, this Broward County city should be Florida’s poster city for family friendly. #GoodWork

If your family doesn’t like winter, you don’t have to worry about snow in our fourth family friendly city in Florida for 2019: Winter Park. The weather, here, is actually quite the opposite: it’s sunny 238 days/year.

This city in Orange County is another family friendly Disney-burb with tons of family friendly things to do.

Surrounded by water, Winter Park is a family friendly resort community with great shopping, art galleries, museums, parks, and multiple beaches.

And if you’re stressed about where to send your kids to school, you can stop now. Winter Park has multiple blue ribbon elementary schools, three gold star high schools and six colleges. #Score

Located at the base of the Everglades, gator country, is our ninth most affordable city in Florida for 2019: Weston.

Weston scored a 9.5/10 on or snackability scale with an emphasis on low crime, education, and family friendly amenities.

Not surprising considering they’ve been deemed “the biggest earners” with a median family income of close to $120,000/year. According to the job research site, Zippia, top employers in software, banking, and logistics have been keeping Weston families employed, entertained, and happy.

And the less time Weston residents have to worry about the big things, the more time they have to hang out at one of their 15 parks.

And rounding out our top ten most affordable cities in Florida for 2019 is…Key Biscayne!

Located on it’s own little private peninsula, off the East Coast of the Sunshine State, Key Biscayne scored the highest on our snackability scale: a big ‘ol 10/10. They scored strong across all criteria, but they made the most magic happen with a 10/10 in education. The residents, here, are smart, hard-working Floridians.

Not surprising considering they are basically their own private island. Hence the reason their city’s motto is “Island Paradise”.

We don’t know about you, but nothing says safe, family friendly livin’ like owning a piece of paradise.

Head 2.5 hours straight South from Tampa, and you’ll run right into our eighth most affordable city in Florida for 2019: Naples.

This little Florida gem is one of the wealthiest cities in the country. And with all that wealth, comes nice, safe, communities, too many gold star schools to count, and family friendly activities that will keep your peeps entertained for days.

Did we mention that a taste of old Naples can still be found in two orange groves still in business. So, if keeping your family healthy with fresh Vitamin C is important to you, ya better get a movin’ to this Southern Florida city.

Our fifth most family friendly city in Florida for 2019, Niceville, comes to us from the Florida Panhandle.

We think the name says it all, folks. Everything in Niceville has to be nice, right?

More importantly, this Choctawhatchee Bay city crushed our snackability scale with high marks across the board. It’s like a big Florida playground for big and little kids alike.

Formerly known as Boggy, this Okaloosa County city’s family household median income is close to $52,000/year! Just think of all the Niceville family friendly activities you can buy dough.

They definitely know what they’re doing in Niceville.

The most family friendly city in Florida for 2019 is Maitland. Kudos to Maitland!

Surrounded by lakes and gardens, and just North of Disney World, any family would be lucky to call this city home.

This city scored off our charts with an 8.5/10 snackability rating with an emphasis on jobs, education, and family friendly amenities.

Not surprising considering they have four large parks and five museums in their backyard. And for all of those parents who don’t want their kids to fly the coop for college, Everglades University and University of Phoenix-Orlando are just a stone’s throw away as well.

We get why your city’s motto is “A Community for Life”.

Head South towards Miami, and we find our sixth most affordable city in Florida for 2019: Miami Lakes.

We believe that for a city to be truly family friendly, it needs to be safe, hip, diverse, and it has to have a ton of family friendly activities..

This little city in Miami-Dade County is just that. They scored an 8/10 for safety, a 7/10 for diversity, and a 9.5/10 for family activities.

Word in the street, it’s also one of the youngest cities. Heck, their city’s motto is “Growing Beautifully”. Just think of the impact you and your family can have on an up and coming city.