Rankings-happy real estate site Movoto pulled out all the stops this week. It ranked nearly every ZIP code in the nation from best to worst. Of course, it's a real estate site, so the criteria for "best" really means something more like "nicest to live in." It also means the rankings tend to favor richer areas.
What's interesting, though, are the wild fluctuations in the rankings of Miami ZIP codes, reminding us once again of the inequalities that plague Miami-Dade. While one Miami ZIP made the top 50 (out of 28,061), several others landed near the bottom. In fact, ZIPs in Miami's top ten border ZIPs that landed in the bottom ten.
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Here are the criteria Movoto used to determine its rankings:
Median Household Income (the higher the better)
Unemployment Rate (the lower the better)
Average Commute Time (the lower the better)
Median Rent (the higher the more desirable an area)
Median House Worth (the higher the more desirable an area)
High School Graduation Rate (the higher the better)
Families Below the Poverty Line (the lower the better)
And here's where almost every Miami-Dade ZIP code ranked. Interestingly, the site did not have enough data to include the main ZIP of Fisher Island, a noted billionaire enclave.
- 33149 (50th) - Key Biscayne
- 33146 (162nd) - Coral Gables
- 33131 (656th) - Brickell and Brickell Key
- 33158 (791st) - Palmetto Bay
- 33129 (1270th) - Brickell
- 33156 (2056th) - Pinecrest
- 33178 (2609th) - Doral
- 33140 (2897th) - Mid-Beach
- 33132 (3838th) - Downtown
- 33143 (4331th) - South Miami
- 33154 (4875th) - Surfside and Indian Creek
- 33180 (6212th) - Aventura
- 33139 (7394th) - South Beach
- 33186 (7954th) - West Kendall
- 33185 (8265th) - West Kendall
- 33134 (8352th) - Coral Gables
- 33133 (8729th) - Coconut Grove
- 33031 (9101st) - Homestead
- 33176 (9503rd) - West Kendall
- 33194 (9700th) - West Kendall
- 33160 (9760th) - Sunny Isles Beach and Golden Beach
- 33155 (10,453rd) - West Miami
- 33182 (11,402nd) - Tamiami
- 33196 (11,431st) - West Kendall
- 33015 (11,504th) - North Miami Lakes (extends into Broward)
- 33173 (11,856th) - Sunset and West Kendall
- 33166 (12,415th) - Miami Springs and Medely
- 33018 (12,656th) - Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens
- 33187 (13,273rd) - Richmond West and Aladdin City
- 33184 (13,307th) - Tamiami
- 33179 (13,789th) - North Miami Beach
- 33183 (14,035th) - Kendall
- 33157 (14,479th) - Cutler Bay and South Miami Heights
- 33145 (14,531st) - Coral Way
- 33177 (15,012th) - South Miami Heights, Goulds, ZooMiami Area
- 33165 (15,183rd) - Westchester, University Park, Olympia Heights
- 33175 (15,260th) - West Kendall, Kendale Lakes
- 33137 (15,700th) - Edgewater and Midtown
- 33193 (16,299th) - Kendall
- 33141 (16,564th) - North Bay Village, Normandy Isles
- 33189 (17,248th) - Cutler Bay
- 33190 (17,763rd) - Cutler Bay
- 33016 (17,967th) - Miami Lakes and Hialeah Gardens
- 33181 (18,092nd) - North Miami and North Miami Beach
- 33035 (18,237th) - Homestead
- 33014 (18,738th) - Miami Lakes
- 33012 (18,990th) - Hialeah
- 33169 (19,106th) - Miami Gardens, North Miami and North Miami Beach
- 33172 (19,233rd) - Doral
- 33138 (19,390th) - Miami Shores and El Portal
- 33174 (20,071st) - Sweetwater and Westchester
- 33055 (20,116th) - Opa-locka
- 33144 (20,388th) - West Miami and Westchester
- 33168 (21,529th) - North Miami
- 33170 (21,619th) - Goulds
- 33056 (21,650th) - Opa-locka
- 33013 (21,723rd) - Hialeah
- 33126 (21,849th) - South of Airport
- 33130 (21,851th) - Little Havana and Inner Downtown Miami
- 33032 (22,063rd) - Naranja
- 33033 (22,320th) - Liesure City
- 33162 (22,417th) - North Miami Beach
- 33010 (22,572nd) - Hialeah
- 33125 (23,309th) - Allapatah and West Little Havana
- 33167 (23,387th) - Opa-locka and Westview
- 33161 (23,697th) - North Miami
- 33030 (24,679th) - Homestead
- 33135 (24,812nd) - Little Havana, Flagami and Coral Way
- 33054 (25,034th) - Opa-locka
- 33147 (25,413rd) - Liberty City and Brownsville
- 33127 (25,775th) - Allapattah and Liberty City
- 33142 (25,864th) - Allapattah and Liberty City
- 33150 (26,098th) - Liberty City and El Portal
- 33034 (26,187th) - Florida City
- 33136 (26,368th) - Overtown
- 33128 (26,804th) - Little Havana and Inner Downtown
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