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Florida is a popular destination for vacation homes.
- Vacation homes are often all about location.
- We teamed up with Zillow to find the most popular US cities for vacation homes.
- Cities in Florida, Nevada, and Arizona are the most popular for vacation homes.
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There are three main reasons why people consider buying a vacation home, according to Jean Chatzky, financial editor of NBC's "Today" Show, in her latest book, " Women with Money:" They frequent a certain area, they're planning to retire, or they want rental income.
These all have one underlying factor: location. Do you visit often? Does the place fit your lifestyle? Is it a popular area where tourists will want to rent?
So, we teamed up with Zillow to find the most popular US cities for vacation homes. To determine this, Zillow used 2017 US census data to see the share of homes classified as a second home in cities with a population over 65,000. The percentage of vacation homes refers to the amount of vacation homes out of all total homes in the city.
Florida cities are the most popular for vacation homes, as well as cities surrounding Las Vegas, Nevada, and Phoenix, Arizona. See the 25 most popular places for vacation homes below, ranked in descending order.
All population sizes are based on US Census Bureau data.