Cooper City Rated one of 10 BEST Towns for Families! (Miami: house, crime)

[gameroom]

For those of you moving to South Florida .....you probably haven't heard of Cooper City. It's a small community. DON'T confuse it with Carol City which is the pits! Cooper City was rated one of the 10 BEST towns for Families by Family Circle magazine.

You can walk any of the streets at night without fear.

Cooper City is an easy commute to Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach County. Excellent Sports Programs, lots of neighborhood parks, and surrounded by excellent county parks with loads of open space that offer alot of picnic areas, bike trails, playgrounds etc. Each has its own special feature too.. ...
Brian Piccolo Park - even has a velodrome (for bicycling)
TY Park - horseback riding! ...tree house!
CB Smith Park, Waterslides, and beach!

All the schools in Cooper City are A rated.

If you want to get away from the kids for a nite on the town.....It's a 10 minute drive to the newest "hottest" entertainment venue in all of South Florida....the Hard Rock Casino, which besides gaming offers nite clubs, comedy club, restraunts, and lots of guest performers such as Jay Leno, Guest Bands, Comedians, etc. In fact the Hard Rock has pulled alot of revenue from Fort Lauderdale Beach and South Beach.

Cooper City -- COOPER CITY - ONE OF TEN BEST TOWNS FOR FAMILIES!


geeez...this sounds like a commercial for Cooper City! But seriously check it out! I wish somebody would have told me about Cooper City when I first moved to South Florida! It would have saved us alot of time, stress and money!

[mathewvc]

i've visited it, it's not bad.

[compelled to reply]

I recommend Cooper City all the time. It's a pretty decent place. I would honestly rather raise kids there than Weston or any other community in Florida south of I-4, or a lot of places...guess all of South FL is the pits...
Although this post looks spammy...

[AJ1972]

I like North Broward

[tpitner]

Does anybody have any good pics they could post?

[tallrick]

Better to go a few miles west for southwest Ranches!

[FLtoNC]

I agree. Cooper City is a great place to live in S. FL. I lived on the dividing line between there & Pembroke Pines for 28 years. It has great proximity to everything you could want to be near without dealing with traffic. Schools are good, and there a lots of families with children.

[browardboi954]

personally i think southwest ranches is too "country" for me, which is fine if you like horses and dirt.. davie is a little better, the westside of davie being more "country/cowboy" and the eastside of davie (davie road, around nova schools) being more "city" due to it bordering lauderdale.. cooper city is about between the two, specifically the areas around griffin and flamingo.

[heydade]

naah...coral springs is better...it's rated the 17th safest city in the entire U.S.

[compelled to reply]

Originally Posted by heydade

naah...coral springs is bette

Crime in Coral Springs by Year
Type 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Murders 1 3 2 2 2 0 0 2
per 100,000 0.9 2.4 1.7 1.6 1.6 0.0 0.0 1.5
Rapes 18 22 13 25 24 22 9 2
per 100,000 15.9 17.9 10.8 20.3 18.8 16.9 6.9 1.5
Robberies 59 76 73 87 70 80 58 86
per 100,000 52.1 61.9 60.5 70.8 54.7 61.6 44.2 65.7
Assaults 226 205 157 178 194 217 157 202
per 100,000 199.6 166.9 130.2 144.8 151.6 167.1 119.6 154.2
Burglaries 641 633 648 681 560 425 424 487
per 100,000 566.2 515.3 537.3 554.0 437.6 327.4 323.0 371.8
Thefts 2,556 2,695 2,393 2,613 2,695 2,440 1,975 2,209
per 100,000 2257.8 2194.1 1984.3 2125.7 2105.9 1879.4 1504.7 1686.6
Auto thefts 417 351 318 332 286 277 243 253
per 100,000 368.4 285.8 263.7 270.1 223.5 213.4 185.1 193.2
Arson 15 6 6 8 8 4 7 7
per 100,000 13.3 4.9 5.0 6.5 6.3 3.1 5.3 5.3
City-data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 323.2) 229.5 217.9 194.2 215.1 197.6 180.6 140.3 163.8

Crime in Cooper City by Year
Type 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Murders 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
per 100,000 0.0 3.3 0.0 0.0 3.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Rapes 3 2 0 3 8 5 2 2
per 100,000 10.1 6.6 0.0 10.3 27.2 17.0 6.6 6.6
Robberies 11 8 14 12 3 8 17 18
per 100,000 37.2 26.2 48.8 41.1 10.2 27.1 56.5 59.0
Assaults 24 37 45 37 51 42 82 68
per 100,000 81.1 121.4 157.0 126.6 173.5 142.4 272.3 222.7
Burglaries 146 104 161 169 125 99 107 113
per 100,000 493.4 341.2 561.7 578.5 425.2 335.7 355.4 370.2
Thefts 452 367 435 552 550 442 467 426
per 100,000 1527.6 1204.0 1517.6 1889.4 1870.7 1498.6 1550.9 1395.4
Auto thefts 38 48 37 43 41 29 24 33
per 100,000 128.4 157.5 129.1 147.2 139.5 98.3 79.7 108.1
Arson 5 0 4 1 3 3 4 6
per 100,000 16.9 0.0 14.0 3.4 10.2 10.2 13.3 19.7
City-data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 323.2) 141.4 128.6 156.4 173.7 182.1 141.5 170.0 157.9

The schools are also quite a bit better as far as public goes but Coral Springs has way more to do in the way of dining and activities for kids and adults.