Fact text

  • Coconut Creek is nicknamed the 'Butterfly Capital of the World' and is home to Butterfly World, the largest butterfly aviary on the planet, housing over 20,000 individual butterflies.
  • The city got its charming name by mashing together two other Florida place names, Coconut Grove and Indian Creek, a creative combo move by an early developer.
  • Coconut Creek was the first city in Florida and only the eleventh in the entire country to earn official 'Community Wildlife Habitat' certification.
  • The city sits next to a landfill locals affectionately call 'Mount Trashmore', which is both a renewable energy park and, historically, a very fragrant neighbor.
  • Bobby Cannavale, the Emmy-winning actor you've seen in everything from Boardwalk Empire to Ant-Man, grew up right here in Coconut Creek.
Your
Coconut Creek
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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Every figure mentioned is drawn from the same sourced public data shown below — and the video updates as the data does.
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60935
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Total Population
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$
65578
Median Income
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$
192900
Median Home
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18
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Coconut Creek
ranks for retirees?
71
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
79
Affordability
78
Healthcare
43
Climate
97

Results

Coconut Creek

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
79

Florida charges no state income tax, meaning Social Security, pension, and retirement account withdrawals all escape state-level taxation.

State sales tax here runs about

6

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
79
6
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
78

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
78
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
43

The area has

15

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
97

A

Warm / Subtropical

climate — summers peak near

91

°F, winters dip to about

59

°F, with roughly

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Warm / Subtropical
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Relatively High

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Relatively High

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