These Are The 10 Best Cities For Hippies In Florida

You might think that the whole hippie movement has faded away, but the truth is, there are plenty of hippies out there in Florida.

While they aren’t necessarily in your face all the time with war protests and the next Woodstock isn’t being planned any time soon, we thought it would be fun to look at which cities in the Sunshine State where the most hippies would live.

And, after crunching the data, you know what? It was pretty spot on, we have to say.

How do you decide where the most hippies live? By the number of yoga studios, organic markets, and most importantly, where the liberals live in droves.

Using that criteria, it’s not hard to scrape the internet, run some scientific data on where hippies might live in Florida, and then put out a list.

So, put on your tie dye shirt and your sandals as you go through this list with us.

After analyzing all cities with a decent amount of people in them, we came up with this list of the 10 best cities for hippies in Florida:

1. Lauderdale-By-The-Sea (Photos)
2. Pembroke Park
3. West Miami
4. Wilton Manors
5. Bay Harbor Islands
6. Surfside (Photos)
7. South Miami
8. West Park
9. Palm Beach (Photos)
10. Lake Park

Read on below to see where your town ranked, young flower child.

And if you already knew these places were hippie heavens, check out the best places to live in Florida or the safest places to live in Florida.

How do you determine the most beatnik city in Florida?

In order to rank the best cities for hippies in Florida, we had to determine what criteria defines a hippie.

We threw a lot of criteria at this one in order to get the best, most complete results possible. Using the Google Places API, the Census’s 2010-2014 American Community Survey, and Voter Registration data, this is the criteria we used:

• Number of yoga studios per capita
• Number of organic markets per capita
• Number of pet adoption centers per capita
• Number of vegan restaurants per capita
• Number of thrift stores per capita
• Each city’s liberal voting population

Note: For the sake of getting reliable numbers, we counted places within a ~4.5 mile radius of a city’s center. The average city in America is about 18 square miles.

All of these results are listed in a per capita basis, meaning number of stores per person in a city. Additionally, we limited the analysis to non-CDPs that have over 5,000 people.

We ranked each place with scores from 1 to 205 in each category, where 1 was the most hippie.

Next, we averaged the rankings for each place to create a hippie index.

And finally, we crowned the city with the highest hippie index the ‘Best City for Hippies In Florida.’ We’re lookin’ at you, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

Read on below to learn more about what it’s like to live in hippie central. Or skip to the end to see the list of all the places in the state from hippiest to most square.

1. Lauderdale-By-The-Sea

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 3.04
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 2.24
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 1.76
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 1.76
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 6.09

2. Pembroke Park

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 3.86
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 1.13
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 1.29
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 3.22
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 4.98

3. West Miami

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 5.33
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 1.45
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.97
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 2.58
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 3.55
West Miami is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,965 at the 2010 census.

4. Wilton Manors

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 2.17
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.83
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.5
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 1.0
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 4.5
Wilton Manors is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 11,632. Wilton Manors is part of the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010 census.

5. Bay Harbor Islands

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 5.64
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 1.03
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.68
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 1.2
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 4.79
Bay Harbor Islands (‘BHI’) is a town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,628 at the 2010 census.[citation needed] It is separated from the mainland by Biscayne Bay, over which the land masses are connected via the Broad Causeway. On the mainland side, BHI is bordered by the city of North Miami, while to the east it borders the villages of Bal Harbour and Surfside. To the south lies the exclusive village of Indian Creek. BHI is about 20 minutes’ driving distance away from Miami International Airport, and it is situated between the larger cities of Aventura and Miami Beach.

6. Surfside

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 4.56
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 1.01
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.51
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 1.18
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 3.37

7. South Miami

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 2.33
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.83
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.58
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 1.5
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 2.33
South Miami is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, in the Miami metropolitan area. The population was 10,741 at the 2000 census and as of 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau was 11,932.

8. West Park

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 1.64
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.34
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.48
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 1.3
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 1.92
West Park, officially the City of West Park, is a municipality in Broward County, Florida, United States. It was created on March 1, 2005. It is located in the southeastern part of the county and consists of the neighborhoods of Carver Ranches, Lake Forest, Miami Gardens (Broward County), and Utopia. A large portion of the city lies west of the town of Pembroke Park, so the new city was called ‘West Park’. With a population of 14,156 as of the 2010 census, the city is bordered by Miami-Dade County on the south, Pembroke Park on the east, Hollywood on the north and Miramar on the west.

9. Palm Beach

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 2.28
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.6
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.48
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 1.44
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 4.07
The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth. In 2000, Palm Beach had a year-round population of 10,468, with an estimated seasonal population of 30,000.

10. Lake Park

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 1.2
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.84
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.72
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.72
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 3.61
Lake Park is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 8,721 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 9,080.

There You Have It — The Hippies Of Florida

If you’re measuring the locations in Florida where there are lots of liberals, and there are many options for vegan food, yoga and thrift stores, this is an accurate list.

If you’re curious, here are the most square places in Florida:

1. Green Cove Springs
2. Cape Coral
3. Callaway

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