2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Palm Bay, FL vs Jacksonville, FL

#7 Hurricane Hotspots

#21 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#50 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#62 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#64 2005 Best Places to Live

#85 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#252 Best Green Cities

#4 Stressful Cities 2012

#6 Most Affordable Colleges

#7 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#9 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#9 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#11 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#11 2005 High Gas Prices

#13 Failure To Lunch

#18 Hypertension Hot Spots

#18 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#19 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#19 Most Energetic Cities

#20 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#21 America’s Manliest Cities

#21 Best Baseball Cities

#22 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#24 Sleepless Cities 2011

#29 America’s Least Manly Cities

#33 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#33 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#33 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#33 America's Top Hygge Cities

#35 America's Most Playful Cities

#36 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#37 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#37 Gloomiest Places in America

#39 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#46 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#47 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#48 Best Block Party Places

#48 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040

#48 The Most Single Cities

#53 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#53 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#53 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#82 2005 Best Places to Live

#86 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#288 Best Green Cities

I moved to Palm Bay in 2020 and the cost of living has skyrocketed! A two bedroom apartment was around $900/month in 2020. Now it's $1600 and up. Mostly up. A three  More

My family of 4 have lived here in NW Palm Bay for over 10 years. My wife and my son from another marriage lived here for over 7 before that. I myself have lived here for  More

I lived in Palm Bay for 12 years. It's a very unfriendly and crowded place to live. It's well into the 90's from late April till right around the 10th of November. The  More

I moved from a small town in Ohio around four years ago, I was 24 years old. Now, at 28, my outlook about living here has changed. I have came to the conclusion, that,  More

I’ve lived in Jacksonville for 12+ years(but visited on and off much longer). There’s things I love and things I hate and just like any place there are pros and cons.  More

We have been investigating Jax for a while. It looks like the Southside, Baymeadows and the further East you get is great. Any thoughts on moving to those areas, pretty  More