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Glades, Florida

Score 6.69 / 10· population 12,786

Glades County is on the west side of Lake Okeechobee, and Moore Haven, its courthouse town, is about halfway between Fort Myers and West Palm Beach. Natural resources and mining made up a fifth of its jobs in 2024, against under 1% statewide. People there lived 80.0 years on average over 2020 to 2022, almost two more than Floridians overall, and fine-particle pollution in 2020 was 7.3 micrograms per cubic meter of air, below Florida's 7.9.

Sources
  • The Moore Haven Lock and Dam is on the west side of Lake Okeechobee at the junction with the Caloosahatchee River visitglades.org
  • Moore Haven is almost equidistant from West Palm Beach and Fort Myers; the Glades County Courthouse is at 500 Avenue J, Moore Haven visitglades.org
  • Glades County government's address is 500 Ave J SW, Moore Haven, FL 33471 myglades.com
  • Natural Resource & Mining was 19.6% of average annual employment in Glades County in 2024 (Florida 0.7%) edr.state.fl.us
  • Glades County life expectancy 79.95 years; Florida 78.07 years (County Health Rankings 2025 release) countyhealthrankings.org
  • Average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) 7.3 micrograms per cubic meter in Glades County; Florida 7.9 (County Health Rankings 2025 release) countyhealthrankings.org
  • In the 2025 County Health Rankings release, Life Expectancy uses 2020-2022 data and Air Pollution: Particulate Matter uses 2020 data countyhealthrankings.org

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)7.6
  2. 2A (state)8.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President7.7
  4. Sales tax3.6
  5. Property tax6.8

Environment

  1. Air quality6.4
  2. Floods / hurricanes1.2

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.9
  2. Life expectancy8.0
  3. Government employees7.8
  4. Single-parent households3.5

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