Boca Raton ranked first among 39 Florida cities in Ocity's 2026 study of best cities to live, according to a summary the research firm posted to Instagram. The study assessed cities across three factors — safety, economic opportunity, and affordability — with safety carrying the heaviest weight in the final composite score.
The city earned an 83 out of 100 on the safety metric and a 76 overall. Ocity described Boca Raton's household income as strong in the published summary, though no specific median figure appeared in the available post. No other city-by-city scores were included in the source, leaving the margin between Boca and the rest of the 39-city field unquantifiable from the published materials alone.
That safety carries the most methodological weight is meaningful context for a ranking that simultaneously measures affordability — a factor under sustained pressure across South Florida coastal markets. The study does not break down individual weighting percentages or publish affordability scores separately, so it is not possible from the available summary to determine how Boca's cost structure affected its final composite relative to lower-cost cities elsewhere in the field.
The full 39-city dataset had not been published publicly as of the Instagram post. Until Ocity releases the complete rankings, how other cities in the field performed on the same composite — and by what margins — remains unknown. The firm had not linked to a full methodology document in the available source.
A statewide safety ranking of this kind carries weight in a Palm Beach County market where relocation decisions increasingly depend on quantifiable quality-of-life inputs. How Ocity's methodology holds up to independent review — and where the full dataset lands when published — will be the relevant question to watch.
