{"id":293209,"date":"2026-06-02T16:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293209\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:06:39","slug":"florida-cities-rank-among-best-and-worst-places-to-raise-a-family-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293209\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida cities rank among best and worst places to raise a family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Port St. Lucie was included in a study finding the best and worst places in the United States to raise a family in 2026, according to WalletHub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The free personal finance website compared 182 cities in the United States to find the <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-cities-for-families\/4435\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:best and worst places to raise a family;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;best and worst places to raise a family&quot;}\" class=\"link \">best and worst places to raise a family<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The website scored cities based on these criteria:<\/p>\n<p>Port St. Lucie ranks for best places to raise a family<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rankings range from 1 to 182, with 1 being the best.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Health and safety rank: 40<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Education and child care rank: 160<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Playgrounds per capita: 101<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Violent-crime per capita: 4<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked Florida cities to raise a familyBest places to raise a family in 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">6. Bismarck, North Dakota<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">7. South Burlington, Vermont<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">8. Charleston, South Carolina<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/staff\/74965934007\/olivia-franklin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Olivia Franklin;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Olivia Franklin&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Olivia Franklin<\/a> is TCPalm\u2019s trending reporter. You can contact her at olivia.franklin@tcpalm.com, 317-627-8048 or follow her on X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Livvvvv_5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:@Livvvvv_5;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@Livvvvv_5&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@Livvvvv_5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/local\/florida\/2026\/05\/30\/port-st-lucie-county-florida-among-worst-places-to-raise-a-family-miami-orlando-tampa-jacksonville\/90277271007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Port St. Lucie Florida among best, worst places to raise a family;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Port St. Lucie Florida among best, worst places to raise a family&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Port St. Lucie Florida among best, worst places to raise a family<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie was included in a study finding the best and worst places in the United States&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[122609,1089,122610,171,173,172,116906],"class_list":["post-293209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-best-places-to-raise-a-family","tag-family","tag-health-and-safety","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-worst-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}