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NeighborhoodScout has issued a special report identifying Florida's 10 best towns for families and children.

The report combines data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the U. S. Bureau of Census, the FBI, the U. S. Justice Department and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.

Dr. Andrew Schiller, a specialist in American demographics and the creator of the NeighborhoodScout search engine for home buyers, used NeighborhoodScout to analyze government data to identify the communities in Florida that have the best overall combination of attributes parents and researchers repeatedly cite as important in defining the best places for families with children.

His work has produced a list of the top choice towns for families in Florida.

Here are NeighborhoodScout's top-choice towns for families with children in the Sunshine State:

1. Windermere
2. Boca Raton
3. Winter Springs
4. Key Biscayne
5. Longwood
6. Orange Park
7. Fort Lauderdale (west of the Florida Turnpike)
8. Jupiter
9. Oviedo
10. Naples

These top towns range in price, setting and location, from the very expensive to average price relative to Florida, from smaller suburban towns to densely populated areas, and from the Jacksonville vicinity to south Florida. The panhandle was included in the research, but no towns there made the elite list of top 10.