{"id":52488,"date":"2025-11-19T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52488\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:07:08","slug":"this-if-floridas-most-sinful-city-new-study-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52488\/","title":{"rendered":"This if Florida\u2019s most sinful city, new study claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 This week, WalletHub has revealed its latest ranking of the most \u201csinful\u201d cities in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The study examines factors related to the colloquial seven sins: anger and hatred, jealousy, excesses and vice, greed, lust, vanity, and laziness.<\/p>\n

These factors include metrics like violent crime, fraud, obesity, casinos, strip clubs, plastic surgery, and weekly hours worked.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegardless of any particular religious tenets, certain activities are considered \u2018sinful\u2019 by society as a whole. <\/p>\n

Sometimes, these activities are always bad, like violent crimes or identity theft. In other cases, they may be relatively harmless in moderation but incredibly destructive when not kept under control, such as alcohol use or gambling. <\/p>\n

The most sinful cities are those where illicit activities and vices alike are the most widespread.\u201d<\/p>\n

WalletHub Analyst Chip Lupo<\/p>\n

In what may come as little surprise to many, Las Vegas again ranked as the No. 1 city<\/a> nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cSin City has the second-most casinos per capita, driving many people to lose their money in a failed quest for quick riches and creating the fourth-highest share of residents with gambling problems,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n

But the Sunshine State didn\u2019t break too far away, with the city of Miami coming in at No. 7.<\/p>\n

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According to the study, Miami had particular issues with \u201cjealousy\u201d and \u201clust,\u201d \u2014 a common theme among many of the Sunshine State picks on this list. In fact, Miami ranked No. 8 for both of those specific factors.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s not all bad for Florida; Port St. Lucie actually ranked No. 2 for the lowest thefts per capita, as well as No. 4 for the lowest violent crime rates.<\/p>\n

The full ranking of Florida cities is as follows:<\/p>\n

RankCityVice IndexBiggest \u201cSin\u201d7Miami52.29Jealousy \/ Lust16Orlando49.52Jealousy27Tampa44.34Lust29Ft. Lauderdale43.80Jealousy30Jacksonville43.67Lust89St. Petersburg37.17Jealousy104Hialeah35.84Jealousy129Pembroke Pines34.01Jealousy146Tallahassee32.04Jealousy169Cape Coral29.77Lust176Port St. Lucie28.25Jealousy<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the factors used in the study break down as follows:<\/p>\n

ANGER AND HATRED<\/p>\n

Violent crimes per 1,000 residents<\/p>\n

Sex offenders per capita<\/p>\n

Aggravated assault offenses known to law enforcement per 1,000 residents<\/p>\n

Bullying rate<\/p>\n

Hate-crime incidents per capita<\/p>\n

Hate groups per capita<\/p>\n

Deaths due to firearms per capita<\/p>\n

Number of mass shootings<\/p>\n

Presence of terrorist attacks<\/p>\n

JEALOUSY<\/p>\n

Thefts per 1,000 residents<\/p>\n

Identity theft complaints per capita<\/p>\n

Fraud and other complaints per capita<\/p>\n

EXCESSES & VICES<\/p>\n

Share of obese adults<\/p>\n

Fast-food establishments per capita<\/p>\n

Excessive drinking<\/p>\n

DUI-related fatalities per capita<\/p>\n

Share of adult smokers<\/p>\n

Share of adult coffee drinkers<\/p>\n

Share of population using marijuana<\/p>\n

Retail opioid prescriptions dispensed per 100 persons<\/p>\n

Drug overdose deaths<\/p>\n

Debt-to-income ratio<\/p>\n

GREED<\/p>\n

Casinos per capita<\/p>\n

Charitable donations as share of income<\/p>\n

Share of adults with gambling disorders<\/p>\n

LUST<\/p>\n

Adult entertainment establishments per capita<\/p>\n

Google search interest index for \u201cXXX Entertainment\u201d<\/p>\n

Google search traffic for term \u201cTinder\u201d<\/p>\n

Teen birth rate<\/p>\n

VANITY<\/p>\n

Tanning salons per capita<\/p>\n

Google search interest index for \u201cTop 5 plastic surgeries\u201d<\/p>\n

LAZINESS<\/p>\n

Share of adults not exercising<\/p>\n

Average weekly hours worked<\/p>\n

Volunteer rate<\/p>\n

Average daily time spent watching TV<\/p>\n

High school dropout rate<\/p>\n

Disconnected youth<\/p>\n

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Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 This week, WalletHub has revealed its latest ranking of the most \u201csinful\u201d cities in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[104,6919,28,785,249,251,250,3502,116,123,1335,139,171,199,232,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-52488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-features","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-ranked","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale","13":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","14":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","15":"tag-ft-lauderdale","16":"tag-jacksonville","17":"tag-miami","18":"tag-orange-county","19":"tag-orlando","20":"tag-port-st-lucie","21":"tag-st-petersburg","22":"tag-tallahassee","23":"tag-tampa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52488","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=52488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}