If living in one of the cleanest cities in the US is important to you, look no further than Florida. Besides the great weather and endless opportunities, now the Sunshine State ranks high for cleanliness. This means Floridian cities are less likely to be impacted by negative environmental impact.
RealtyTrac conducted the second annual Manmade Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Report. Most of Florida fell into their very low, low, or medium category for risk. The report looks at manmade environmental qualities such as air quality, superfund sites, polluters, brownfields and former drug labs to decide the amount of risk in the area. They analyzed 7,751 zip codes for the report. None in Florida were found as very high risk. More than half of the state fell into low or very low categories. Check out a map of showing county-by-county levels of environmental hazard here.
Often, cities and surrounding metro areas fall into higher risk categories. However, some of the cleanest cities are clearly in Florida. Not a single metro area in Florida fell into RealtyTrac’s “Dirty Dozen” top list of cities with large environmental hazards.
Besides being unpleasant to live in a place that is unclean and at risk for environmental hazard, it is not healthy. Cities offer great opportunities for employment, culture and more, and it’s even better when they are clean, like Miami.
“Miami is a 21st century city, with most of our development post World War II, with no real environmental baggage from the past,” says Mike Pappas, CEO and president of the Keyes Company, covering the South Florida market, where only 3 percent of zip codes were rated very-high or high risk for manmade environmental hazards. “We have clean air, blue skies, clean water and clean industry.”
If you want to live in an international, culturally rich city with beautiful weather and beaches, look no further than Miami, one of the cleanest cities you can find! Check out RE/MAX Paradise’s amazing properties to buy or rent in the Miami area today.