There’s no denying it: there are plenty of places in Florida that are downright beautiful and full of excitement.
Unfortunately, not all towns and cities in Sunshine State are so lucky.
Just like in all U.S. States, there are definitely some boring places within Florida’s’ borders. You know the places where everyone has an AARP card and the most exciting thing they do all day is post a picture of their grandchild on Facebook.
Like Freeport, for instance. In our latest analysis, we found that this city was the most boring city in all of Oklahoma according to Saturday Night Science. But don’t feel bad if you’re a resident of Freeport. There are plenty of other boring, lackluster places in Florida as well.
Here they are. Try not to jump out of your seat with excitement.
The 10 Most Boring Places In Florida
Don’t freak out, in fact, believe it not, a boring city is actually one a lot of people would like to call home.
Before you get all upset if your city’s name is on the list, rest assured that we didn’t use personal opinion when it comes to what classifies a city or town as “boring” or “exciting”. We crunched actual numbers to figure out which towns are statistically more boring.
Showing this data to you is the kind of thing that a real estate agent knows, but would never share.
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Table Of Contents: Top Ten | Methodology | Summary | Table
The 10 Most Boring Places In Florida For 2023
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Average Age: 54.7
% Married: 13.0%
More on Edgewater: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate
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Average Age: 57.7
% Married: 10.0%
More on New Smyrna Beach: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate
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Average Age: 58.0
% Married: 11.0%
More on Flagler Beach: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate
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Average Age: 56.7
% Married: 11.0%
More on Inverness: Data | Cost Of Living | Real Estate
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Average Age: 48.1
% Married: 22.0%
More on Fort Meade: Data | Cost Of Living | Real Estate
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Average Age: 39.4
% Married: 19.0%
More on Okeechobee: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate
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Average Age: 57.6
% Married: 10.0%
More on Fernandina Beach: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate
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Average Age: 49.1
% Married: 9.0%
More on Gulf Breeze: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate
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Average Age: 45.3
% Married: 13.0%
More on Orange Park: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate
Methodology: How we determined the boring cities in the Sunshine State
You would present the following case to your friends if you were argueing with them at a bar about the most boring place to live in Florida. And that’s why we call it Saturday Night Science.
Because our data speaks more truth than feelings.
To figure out how boring a place is, we factored in things we generally think make people exciting, and then we figure out which cities have the least number of those exciting people.
We used the U.S. American Community Census data to gather the information presented here. HSome of the things people tend to think of as making a city’s population boring include:
- % of Population Over 25 (higher is more boring)
- % of Married Household (higher is more boring)
- Average Age (higher is more boring)
- % of Households With Kids (higher is more boring)
- Population density (lower is more boring)
Then, our algorithm generates a ranking for each place in these categories. After crunching the numbers, all of the cities ranked from most boring to most exciting.
For this ranking, we used every Florida city with at least 5,000 residents. This keeps us from prejudicing our rankings by including very small pockets of retired people.
Grab your rocker and hold on.
We updated this article for 2023, and it’s our tenth time ranking the most boring cities in Florida.
There You Have It – Now That You’re Asleep
On a ranking like this, there are usually no winners, but since Florida isn’t necessarily the most boring state in the United States, the cities on this ranking can at least take solace that there are, in fact, more boring cities in the country.
If you’re also curious enough, here are the most exciting places in Florida, according to science:
- Pembroke Park
- Bay Harbor Islands
- Lauderdale Lakes
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Detailed List Of The Most Boring Cities In Florida For 2023
| Rank | City | Population | Average Age | % Married | % Kids |
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| 1 | Freeport, FL | 5,858 | 41.6 | 16.0% | 39.1% |
| 2 | Edgewater, FL | 23,138 | 54.7 | 13.0% | 16.9% |
| 3 | New Smyrna Beach, FL | 30,449 | 57.7 | 10.0% | 14.5% |
| 4 | Flagler Beach, FL | 5,100 | 58.0 | 11.0% | 15.8% |
| 5 | Inverness, FL | 7,602 | 56.7 | 11.0% | 14.5% |
| 6 | Fort Meade, FL | 5,133 | 48.1 | 22.0% | 21.1% |
| 7 | Okeechobee, FL | 5,319 | 39.4 | 19.0% | 42.0% |
| 8 | Fernandina Beach, FL | 13,028 | 57.6 | 10.0% | 13.1% |
| 9 | Gulf Breeze, FL | 6,372 | 49.1 | 9.0% | 31.0% |
| 10 | Orange Park, FL | 9,047 | 45.3 | 13.0% | 27.7% |
| 11 | Southwest Ranches, FL | 7,589 | 41.6 | 14.0% | 38.5% |
| 12 | Alachua, FL | 10,570 | 39.9 | 20.0% | 29.8% |
| 13 | Belle Isle, FL | 7,020 | 42.4 | 17.0% | 32.4% |
| 14 | Palm Beach Gardens, FL | 59,088 | 51.2 | 8.0% | 22.6% |
| 15 | Fruitland Park, FL | 8,219 | 56.0 | 9.0% | 19.3% |
| 16 | Mount Dora, FL | 16,330 | 48.6 | 13.0% | 20.9% |
| 17 | Ormond Beach, FL | 43,127 | 51.9 | 8.0% | 23.1% |
| 18 | Green Cove Springs, FL | 9,758 | 38.5 | 14.0% | 34.4% |
| 19 | Leesburg, FL | 27,226 | 43.6 | 11.0% | 23.2% |
| 20 | Debary, FL | 22,310 | 45.8 | 9.0% | 26.4% |
| 21 | Lake Alfred, FL | 6,555 | 36.3 | 13.0% | 29.0% |
| 22 | Tequesta, FL | 6,116 | 53.9 | 11.0% | 22.4% |
| 23 | Sebastian, FL | 25,266 | 57.5 | 9.0% | 14.8% |
| 24 | Starke, FL | 5,756 | 35.1 | 18.0% | 38.9% |
| 25 | Palm Coast, FL | 91,082 | 50.3 | 6.0% | 24.1% |
| 26 | Wildwood, FL | 15,735 | 58.6 | 6.0% | 14.1% |
| 27 | Bartow, FL | 19,424 | 36.5 | 20.0% | 29.6% |
| 28 | Perry, FL | 6,879 | 38.3 | 17.0% | 38.9% |
| 29 | Auburndale, FL | 16,432 | 39.3 | 14.0% | 31.9% |
| 30 | Lake Wales, FL | 16,455 | 43.1 | 8.0% | 28.0% |
| 31 | North Port, FL | 76,975 | 49.5 | 7.0% | 23.7% |
| 32 | Brooksville, FL | 8,981 | 52.3 | 8.0% | 19.5% |
| 33 | Vero Beach, FL | 16,531 | 54.3 | 8.0% | 14.5% |
| 34 | Winter Haven, FL | 50,778 | 40.6 | 12.0% | 31.4% |
| 35 | Rockledge, FL | 27,808 | 45.9 | 11.0% | 24.0% |
| 36 | Marianna, FL | 6,681 | 38.2 | 18.0% | 34.0% |
| 37 | Sebring, FL | 11,006 | 46.3 | 9.0% | 20.4% |
| 38 | Sanibel, FL | 6,420 | 68.6 | 3.0% | 3.5% |
| 39 | Longwood, FL | 15,628 | 40.8 | 11.0% | 32.3% |
| 40 | Titusville, FL | 48,595 | 43.7 | 10.0% | 24.6% |
| 41 | Mascotte, FL | 6,985 | 31.0 | 19.0% | 58.0% |
| 42 | Lake Mary, FL | 16,636 | 41.9 | 9.0% | 30.4% |
| 43 | Apopka, FL | 55,056 | 38.9 | 12.0% | 37.5% |
| 44 | High Springs, FL | 6,283 | 36.8 | 16.0% | 38.3% |
| 45 | St. Augustine Beach, FL | 6,774 | 54.1 | 10.0% | 17.8% |
| 46 | Marathon, FL | 9,789 | 47.2 | 7.0% | 22.6% |
| 47 | Palmetto Bay, FL | 24,267 | 41.6 | 16.0% | 38.9% |
| 48 | Macclenny, FL | 7,354 | 37.5 | 19.0% | 39.8% |
| 49 | Tavares, FL | 19,088 | 54.6 | 7.0% | 18.4% |
| 50 | Newberry, FL | 7,401 | 33.0 | 29.0% | 38.7% |
| 51 | Tarpon Springs, FL | 25,355 | 54.1 | 9.0% | 17.5% |
| 52 | Jacksonville Beach, FL | 23,583 | 43.3 | 13.0% | 21.1% |
| 53 | Atlantic Beach, FL | 13,381 | 49.0 | 13.0% | 20.4% |
| 54 | Eustis, FL | 23,101 | 40.9 | 16.0% | 24.8% |
| 55 | Port St. Lucie, FL | 210,520 | 43.5 | 8.0% | 31.0% |
| 56 | Cocoa, FL | 19,073 | 44.6 | 9.0% | 19.4% |
| 57 | Avon Park, FL | 9,789 | 42.9 | 10.0% | 26.9% |
| 58 | Pinecrest, FL | 18,279 | 42.0 | 16.0% | 37.3% |
| 59 | Punta Gorda, FL | 19,605 | 66.3 | 3.0% | 11.1% |
| 60 | Neptune Beach, FL | 6,743 | 44.4 | 12.0% | 18.7% |
| 61 | St. Augustine, FL | 14,642 | 48.1 | 9.0% | 11.9% |
| 62 | Live Oak, FL | 6,811 | 37.5 | 27.0% | 26.8% |
| 63 | Cape Coral, FL | 198,912 | 48.2 | 5.0% | 24.1% |
| 64 | Palatka, FL | 10,471 | 39.9 | 12.0% | 28.2% |
| 65 | Safety Harbor, FL | 17,087 | 48.1 | 8.0% | 27.8% |
| 66 | Seminole, FL | 19,287 | 53.8 | 9.0% | 15.9% |
| 67 | Satellite Beach, FL | 11,176 | 42.1 | 13.0% | 32.7% |
| 68 | Venice, FL | 25,710 | 68.8 | 3.0% | 6.6% |
| 69 | Bonita Springs, FL | 53,945 | 60.2 | 3.0% | 13.8% |
| 70 | Pinellas Park, FL | 53,352 | 43.9 | 9.0% | 24.2% |
| 71 | Winter Springs, FL | 38,205 | 43.1 | 9.0% | 24.6% |
| 72 | Palm Bay, FL | 121,513 | 41.8 | 9.0% | 30.5% |
| 73 | Destin, FL | 13,923 | 43.0 | 7.0% | 23.7% |
| 74 | Callaway, FL | 13,455 | 38.8 | 10.0% | 32.4% |
| 75 | Springfield, FL | 8,295 | 42.2 | 11.0% | 23.0% |
| 76 | Pahokee, FL | 5,548 | 38.0 | 11.0% | 35.1% |
| 77 | Palmetto, FL | 13,384 | 50.0 | 10.0% | 18.2% |
| 78 | Lakeland, FL | 114,404 | 40.6 | 12.0% | 24.9% |
| 79 | Marco Island, FL | 15,942 | 67.5 | 2.0% | 7.9% |
| 80 | Jacksonville, FL | 950,203 | 36.3 | 14.0% | 28.9% |
| 81 | Zephyrhills, FL | 17,575 | 50.1 | 7.0% | 20.4% |
| 82 | Port Orange, FL | 62,849 | 46.5 | 8.0% | 22.9% |
| 83 | Jupiter, FL | 60,926 | 47.1 | 8.0% | 25.3% |
| 84 | Wellington, FL | 61,373 | 41.5 | 7.0% | 39.5% |
| 85 | Palm Beach, FL | 9,205 | 70.7 | 4.0% | 4.7% |
| 86 | Longboat Key, FL | 7,479 | 71.9 | 3.0% | 0.6% |
| 87 | Groveland, FL | 19,240 | 40.3 | 8.0% | 31.5% |
| 88 | Naples, FL | 19,315 | 66.9 | 3.0% | 8.6% |
| 89 | Lady Lake, FL | 16,047 | 65.5 | 4.0% | 8.7% |
| 90 | Winter Garden, FL | 46,518 | 39.4 | 9.0% | 44.0% |
| 91 | Lynn Haven, FL | 19,421 | 35.4 | 16.0% | 41.7% |
| 92 | Defuniak Springs, FL | 6,072 | 34.3 | 12.0% | 42.6% |
| 93 | Miami Springs, FL | 13,729 | 44.5 | 11.0% | 25.1% |
| 94 | Oviedo, FL | 39,552 | 36.9 | 11.0% | 44.3% |
| 95 | North Palm Beach, FL | 13,092 | 56.1 | 7.0% | 15.5% |
| 96 | Milton, FL | 10,254 | 40.0 | 12.0% | 21.9% |
| 97 | Cocoa Beach, FL | 11,334 | 58.6 | 5.0% | 11.1% |
| 98 | Cutler Bay, FL | 44,738 | 40.9 | 10.0% | 37.7% |
| 99 | New Port Richey, FL | 16,742 | 54.0 | 7.0% | 16.1% |
| 100 | Lantana, FL | 11,703 | 41.1 | 11.0% | 22.9% |
You guys are right on target about SW Florida.It is THE most boring area i’ve ever lived in.The whole area,from Sanibel/Cape Coral to Marco Isl./Everglades city, is dead-er than a graveyard.You’ll never meet more boring people than what lives around here,and the dim lights that run Charlotte,Lee,and Collier counties like it that way.
I could probably go on forever about how just plain BAD SW Florida is…but i don’t want to rant. lolol
BTW…i’m 62 years old,and even I,at my age,am BORED TO DEATH living here in SW Florida…i wish i could move to LA.,or maybe San Francisco.
This isn’t science. Half your criteria are based on age. Show me a single definition of boring that has anything to do with age! Pretty sorry to have to publish such “junk research” to try to make a name for yourself.
swfl is boring, has always been boring. just these days more and more people in the way. if you do not boat, fish or golf there really is not much here.
usually have to drive 2 hours to see a decent concert or buy a record.
SW Florida is so boring that you can LITERALLY do EVERYTHING there is to do in no more than 2 days.
If you golf in the morning,visit their smelly beach in the afternoon,go to a restaurant in the evening…then you’ve done almost everything there is to do around this miserable place.On the 2nd.day,if you visit a wildlife preserve,then take an airboat tour of their swamp (everglades),then you have done absolutely everything there is to do….what a ripoff!!..there is simply no quality of life for working people around here.No culture…no nuthin’.
The local dim lights (politicians)cater exclusively to the snotty,whining,do nothing rich,and tell working people to take a hike.
I don’t want to go political,but local politics and class warfare is probably THE single main force behind the near total lack of things to do…why SW FL.is so damn BORING…JMO
I’m ok with boring – I’m a fan of boring (at least how you describe it). But if that’s a photo of Naples….then it is somewhere in Naples I’ve never seen in almost 40 years of living here.
Note Belle Glade at 194 ranked as one of the least boring cities in Florida. Eat your heart out Sanibel.
Palatka is one of the 25 least boring cities? Oh, come on!
This article seems to be full of statistical misstatement and errors. Who if anyone proofs your work? In the narrative section the statistics shown are not consistent. On some cities you list “Households over 65” on others “Households with Kids”. The statistics in these are mismapped. For example, on Longboat Key you state an Average Age of 71.4, the highest city in the list, but reflect a 3.1% rate of Households over 65. No one should take your analysis or article seriously.
Terrible analysis. This website is a joke !
Seems to most readers that this must have been thought up of a bunch of 20 year olds with no sense of reality…yet
Give it time, you will understand how dumb this was and delete it in a few years 🙂
Correction… Punta Gorda is NOT mostly gated communities. I’m not sure how you came to that conclusion. I do agree that it’s boring… And we LOVE it that way! Beautiful, quiet town!
Yeah..grew up on Clearwater and it has always been lily white and boring. Visit the beach and red lobster and you have finished visiting the scintillating intellectual and social life of Clearwater.
Why no mention of the greatest fishing town in the USA. Islamorada. And Vero Beach needs to be way down the list. Ask people that live there. Zero Beach
Correction* the most boring places are actually found in north florida. The closer you reach Alabama, the worse and ‘crack head’ it gets.
Tallahassee and Gainesville being at the bottom of this list tells me everything I need to know. Those numbers are so skewed considering the majority of Tallahassee’s populations are college students so of course average married age and children are going to be super low. Take it from a college student living here, it sucks and there’s nothing else here besides FSU/FAMU. Just another boring suburban town.