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Okaloosa County, Florida

One of the...

Top-Ten Best Small Places To Live!
Forbes Magazine
(Ranked five years running)

Top-Ten Least Stressed Labor Market
The Wadley-Donovan Group, 2001

Five-Star Quality of Life Quotient
Expansion Management Magazine, 2001

Okaloosa County is a vacation paradise to many, but it also offers an unparalleled quality of living for its residents.

Rounding out this wonderfully diverse environment are accredited healthcare facilities, a secondary school system  ranked among the best in the nation, major universities, a community college, diverse real estate opportunities, and state-of-the art utilities.

The Cost of Living table below gives a relative measure of prices for the costs of consumer goods and services, excluding taxes and non-consumer expenditures.

Cost of Living
1st Qrtr 2005 Okaloosa All MSAs*
Composite Index 101.1 100%
Grocery Items 107.3 13
Housing 100.8 29
Utilities 85.3 10
Transport 110.8 9
Healthcare 104.6 4
Misc. 100.7 35
1st Qrtr 2006 Okaloosa All MSAs*
Composite Index 95.7 100
Grocery Items 97.1 13
Housing 90.5 28
Utilities 86.5 10
Transport 104.8 10
Healthcare 98.6 4
Misc. 99.2 35
1st Qrtr 2007 Okaloosa All MSAs*
Composite Index 98.5 100
Grocery Items 98.5 13
Housing 100.3 28
Utilities 89.7 10
Transport 97.6 10
Healthcare 91.1 4
Misc. 100.6 35
*The average for all national MSAs (Metropolitan Statistical Area)
Source: UWF Haas Center

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