PERRY (Should be #1 worst) I’m calling this list bullshit. I would defintely say that Kissimmmee is worse than Poincianna so I am not sure how a sleep little suburb like Poincianna got so high up the list. More on Miami Gardens:  Data | Photos. Mims Having said that I’ll address the New Port Richey issue. Sociologists have indicated that these types of stores are a staple of inner city life. Whoever wrote this is full of shit….i have lived in Daytona area since 1978 and currently live in Holly Hill..i work all over state doing construction and if you want to see the real slums go to Jacksonville….Sanford…Orlando…North Miami just to name a few….real life experiences will tell you the truth. I can safely say they should be number 1on this list! I’m definitely missing some of what south Florida has to ‘offer’ but during my travels I’ve discovered more and more terrible towns in this state. Even the stray dogs are sad. Please, never come back. I call it Trashco County. Every decent subdivision is a gated maze, which means your friends have to wait in line to be allowed in whenever they visit and it takes you a full five minutes or more just to exit the place (with 15 mph speed limits and geezers behind the wheel). 2. crime There’s good and bad everywhere you go. There are some fine places to live here year around, but to ignore or mock this list just makes one worthy of the ‘Floriduh Resident’ label. There are 37,821 households in the city with an average household size of 2.77 persons. I mean anything not even a sprinkler to water a shrub. The seediest lowlife humanity inhabits this state. Let’s not even mention that this area is now over 40 years old and some homes really look like it as well. What kind of crime is there in your area Audrey? The people who have to live in here could use a big hug right about now. Rank Last Year: 3 (No Change) If you spent a year here, you or 21 of your neighbors would be the victim of a property crime each year. LOL Were the income levels low??? Even the FBI crime statistics is also incorrect because it does not take into account unincorporated sections in the counties. Orlando (and it’s surrounding areas other than Winter Park) Sorry but I live in that county and there’s a shooting almost every day. Most of the rest of the cities on this list deserve to be on here due to their high crime numbers. View pictures of homes, review sales history, and use our detailed filters to find the perfect place. Sure, Kissimmee, by all means, is not a perfect city, but to label it as ghetto just because it has poor people living in it and discount stores that actually provide good products, is not only stupid, but wrong as you’re implying that poor people only live in ghetto areas. Lakewood Park area….We are looking into buying a house there and while we were there last month from Texas, someone called the cops on us because we were driving around the neighborhood slowly. Any writer that cites Wikipedia as a reliable source to back up an argument needs to go back to high school. Send these, the homeless criminal class to me, I lift my roach beside the broken door!”. And the worst place to live in Florida? That's where you'll always be able to find a prostitute at any given time of day. Were you here for like an hour? The #10 on your list Sanford is one of those cities I’ve lived here all of my life except for my stint in the Army and it’s a beautiful city that has had a hard time with image since the treyvone incident. You shuffle yourself around in a truck ..most likely and shop at PUBLIX where the prices are higher than that of the crime infested WALMART on lets say BEVILLE ROAD. There were quite a few mentions on Twitter regarding Lauderhill: “Lauderhill is mad ghetto. It’s not all bad. Florida is definitely a sunny state for shady people. Gainesville should be on this list. Also this article is based on a 5 year old community survey. It's that simple. That's really high for Florida, but not even the highest in the state. ANDY as a 71 year old YOU are out of touch. Was there crime ??? Have you actually ever been to Florida? And there are some really high incomes here, which means that there are tens of thousands of families living in Miami under the poverty line. And like any city, it has its ghetto areas, but its decent areas surpass those ghetto areas any day, just come by and visit. The author was forthright about what factors they used in determining what constitutes ‘ghetto’ for the purposes of this study. That was in 2008; I actually cried driving the U-Haul back here. If you want your kid to go to UF, be careful where they live. Please rewrite this section. I lived in Boca Raton for 2 years. Ft pierce is like a polished turd. You people are idiots and your list is made of the stuff that comes out the hind end of a bull. There are lots of people who throw the term ‘ghetto’ around. Statistics are a wonderful thing. The jobs do not pay well regardless of experience or education level. I’ve lived in several of the top cities (top 100) Eustis, Tavares, Mt. They have Holly Hill listed pretty far down the list from Daytona and Port Orange, posing Daytona and PO as worse than Holly Hill??? The author did a good job and used valid statistics, the kind of statistics I’d be interested in if I were looking to move somewhere. Certainly there are places and areas of the state that no one in their right mind would want to call home but statistically they are just fine and the reverse is also true; supposedly fine places that you wouldn’t catch me in any time of the day or especially night. PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP. While I and Keith, for the most part, do not get along, I do have to agree with both of you as to “Poinciana, Florida”, the income here is at low levels, the traffic here is the worse of any community or even a city that I have lived in and I have lived just about all over the world. and CLEARWATER beach although, Volusia County is the lowest paid county in the state, Florida is also the lowest paid state in the US. People will steal anything that’s not tied down also. Pine Hills is a black town where shootings happen all the time. Holly Hill is so crime ridden, drugs, prostitution, gangs! Median Home Value: $68,400 (2nd worst) Nearly 3 in 10 residents of North Miami don’t have a basic… That ,hopefully, will help support efforts to preserve what still remains of its fragile environment and decrease the destruction of more of the spectacularly beautiful areas ! What is wrong with old people anyway? Bottom line, is that it is extremely difficult to sustain yourself unless your are retired, on welfare, or conform to a lower standard of living, in essence giving up. Here’s but one example of what a resident of Homestead had to say on City Data: “Homestead is hell. Deltona is definitely horrible cause it’s nothing but a huge subdivision and trying to find a job locally is ridiculous. Drop out rate: 28.4% So, Fla isn’t really the place to go if u are looking for a great high paying job, unless u can work for Nasa, it’s mostly a tourist and retirement state. Unemployment Rate: 8.9% (30th worst) Poinciana has tried to allow itself to have a referendum to become its own city and each time it has been turned down by the Polk and Osceola Legislative delegations. Sure, there are some ghetto areas in Kissimmee, especially along some parts of 192, but really, this guy is making it sound like driving around Kissimmee is like driving through one of the most dangerous cities with graffiti-covered walls on every corner and piles of trash on every intersection; which is, clearly, if you live here, not the case AT ALL. Ignorance and more ignorance. I moved to NPR in the mid 80’s at age 18 due to that fact I had grown up in upstate New York and Really hated it as well as the fact my childhood friend (from N.Y.) had lived in NPR with his father (Which had been there for many years prior as a business owner and resident) for a time. The claims you make would be great with sources! More on Homestead:  Data | Photos. That is one of he most drug ridden cities here too! Dec 1 Santa will be Calling Children in Palm Bay Santa will be making calls to kids right here in Palm Bay! Belle Glade is horrible but Pakokee is a smaller, even more pathetic hole a hitch hike away. To clarify my above comment, I lived beachside in the older section of Cocoa Beach where there are lots of renters. HIALIEAH? Have you donated money? The State of Florida has horrible education for the kids. SO. We used science and data to determine which cities in FL are really ghetto. If I were a gambler (and I’m not), I would bet that you are much more likely to commit a crime than the average black person. And they have a 1 in 5.5 chance of being robbed each year. Holly Hill ranks better than NSB or Mt. Crime is nonexistent unless you mean property crime, in which it’s still towards the very bottom. Lived by the St. Lucie International Airport for 3 years which was shockingly MUCH quieter than the redneck hell hole I’m currently in up in the panhandle. Sanford is a drug infested sh*th*le. Meaning lots of people are getting robbed here. It’s Florida, a bug infested hotbox of crap.The entire state is the worst place to live. How is Daytona, NPR, and New Symerna worse off than Riviera Beach?? Miami is the 2nd poorest city we measured. Located in the Brevard County of Florida, the city of Palm Bay is an ideal place for anyone who loves activities. Nearly 3 in 10 residents of North Miami don’t have a basic high school education, which is the 4th highest number of Florida’s largest cities. Thank you! Therefore, it’s assumed that the cities above (and their suburbs) are more ghetto than the smaller cities not listed here. 867 Lot/Land For Sale in Palm Bay, FL. If that were so, DC would be full of Ph.D’s rather than gang-bangers and drop-outs. North Miami doesn't have it much better, in terms of overall economic outlook. Palatka has almost every other city in Florida beat when it comes to crime, as only 20 other cities in the entire state have a worse crime index. This was misused through the whole article. As a former resident of the Sunshine State, can only say that within the listed criteria, this article hits the nail squarely on the head. There is a lot more to be said such as: What make you think you no that most of the Hispanic are illegal,most of the people there are Hispanic and what % is Hispanic. Income: $39,279 Sanford covers a large area and there are definitely some not-so-great parts, but the downtown and adjacent Historic District are one of the few places in Metro Orlando where I was interested in living. Meaning number of stores per person in a state. 80% of the Cocoa arrests come from non-residents. Your email address will not be published. There isn’t any trickle down economics with the wealthy retired people. Rank Last Year: 5 (Up 1) I lived there for a few years.. At the time income levels were low everywhere in Florida as a whole. More on Avon Park:  Data | Photos. All of Brevard county is a complete dump! It is literally the only ray of light in this Biff Tannen’s alternate universe dystopia of Back to the Future Part II. Was that a thanks Obama? There are plenty of young families living there. Other factors that make Daytona Beach ghetto include a low median income (a lot of the population barely makes ends meet), and a lot of convenience and discount stores per capita. Besides the present administration, that is the most absurd denial if truth I have heard in months. I agree with you Nathan! I used to say that NY dumped all their trash in NJ but now I see it all ends up here eventually. Read on below to see how we crunched the numbers and see how your city fared in 2020. We're aware that people enjoy outdoor activities, but in terms of pure entertainment, you'd have to drive a ways away. Ghetto Rock Promotions is a Florida Fictitious Name filed on February 23, 2017. The infrastructure is bad. This list would make a lot more sense if were ‘The10 Worst STATES to live in’. WOULD ARGUE OTHERWISE. Make sure your information is up to date. You either have to drive 45 min to an hour to Ocala for something that is either in agriculture or construction, or you drive the 35 min to Gainesville for jobs that you need a Masters degree to clean toilets. OMG! Unemployment Rate: 19.9% (2nd worst) There's a lot more entertainment in Miami Gardens than in the cities we mentioned above, so at least folks here can take their mind off of these statistics. Living in Palm Bay, FL. If you ever speak your mind or get in any kind of trouble with a ticket you better have a good lawyer they love to throw people in jail, they don’t care what your circumstances are. As for doctors, all are Spanish or of other of foreign origins (you can barely understand them or even their office personal), there is not one just plain English Caucasian doctor to be found in Poinciana. Palm Bay profile Living in Palm Bay. The people or property owners who do live here are lazy, uneducated, ignorant just plain pure, and simple while most cannot even speak English. I prefer classifying it as “ignortainment.” Perhaps if you were BETTER EDUCATED you wouldn’t have written an article using what you call “science and data to determine which cities in FL are really ghetto” as you so aimlessly stated. The area is very crappy. They will pay lawyers to milk them out of association funds and refuse to take advice from anyone who is not in their cliques (who vote them in). Population: 18,053 Income: $42,742 Your email address will not be published. I think Nick responded directly, but we got the image from flickr under a CC license. When you're looking at science and data, Belle Glade is the worst place you can live in Florida. That's part of the reason it's the 10th worst place in Florida. I would like to clarify my above statement and add that I lived beachside in the older section of Cocoa Beach. When I was a teen, I lived in Cooper City, in FT Lauderdale, went to Cooper City high for a bit. More on Opa-Locka:  Data | Photos. Your article and/or the originator of it should look in the mirror and look deep into your core. Florida; Palm Bay Palm Bay White Pages. Daytona, yeah, it has its share of crime, drugs and prostitution, Holly Hill is worse. Palm Bay is a city in Brevard County, Florida with a population of 105,212. It wasn’t bad back in the ’70’s, But I don’t know how it is now. Editor’s Note: This article is an opinion based on facts and is meant as infotainment. Local Time: 01:02 AM EST. This gets a BIG thumbs down from this old Florida cracker. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Florida. these statistics are not accurate. There are more than 15,000 residents in Newport Richie because they’re not included Because the real Florida, once one of the most beautiful places in the country to live, and a truly “affordable paradise” is disappearing at an alarming rate – like the old song, ‘They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot’. I lived in kissimee for the last 4 years and never been robbed or hurt but they do have some people who may rob people, panhandle and leave their trash on 192 and hang around the stores and scare people how they look and act but that is not the city’s fault.kissimee is a tourist town and i love the stores and we have alot of restaurants to eat in. So please be careful with what you claim to be fun because your fun could lead to harm to others. That would be Pahokee. You ask the internet. Hey guys. Use filters to narrow your search by price, square feet, beds, and baths to find homes that fit your criteria. 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