Rank

1573of 3,144

Indian River, Florida

Score 6.29 / 10· population 169,795

Indian River County counts more residents aged 65 or older, 34.1%, than children under 18, 15.9%, and has 22.4 miles of beaches on the Treasure Coast. Hurricane Nicole made landfall at Vero Beach in November 2022, and its surge and beach erosion caused extensive damage from there north to Jacksonville. Hurricane Milton struck Florida's west coast in October 2024, yet a rain gauge near Vero Beach still caught 11.60 inches.

Sources
  • 34.1% of Indian River County residents are aged 65 and over and 15.9% are under 18, against 21.2% and 19.5% for Florida edr.state.fl.us
  • Indian River County has 22.4 miles of beaches and is on the Treasure Coast visitindianrivercounty.com
  • Vero Beach is in Indian River County api.censusreporter.org
  • Hurricane Nicole made landfall on the Florida coast at Vero Beach at 0745 UTC 10 November 2022 and caused extensive damage due to storm surge and beach erosion along the Florida east coast from the landfall area northward to the Jacksonville area nhc.noaa.gov
  • Hurricane Milton made landfall on Siesta Key on the west coast of the Florida peninsula on 10 October 2024 (UTC); a CoCoRaHS site near Vero Beach reported a storm total of 11.60 inches of rain nhc.noaa.gov

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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 President6.4
  4. Sales tax3.6
  5. Property tax6.5

Environment

  1. Air quality6.5
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.1

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.8
  2. Life expectancy8.3
  3. Government employees7.6
  4. Single-parent households1.8

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