Best Places33174, FL Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 33174, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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33174 ranks 25,616th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in 33174

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 33174 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

33174's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%State infrastructure
Top 5%Transit
Top 5%Walkability
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 33174 with other zip codes.

Where 33174 ranks high

  • State infrastructureBetter than 98% of zip codes
  • TransitBetter than 96% of zip codes
  • WalkabilityBetter than 96% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of zip codes
  • BikingBetter than 95% of zip codes

Where 33174 ranks low

  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • Heat safetyBetter than only 4% of zip codes
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of zip codes
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of zip codes
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 8% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 33174

A household needs to earn about $100,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 33174 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $64,076, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$100,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,334
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $388,369 home
Median rent
$2,016
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,980
Property tax$224
Homeowners insurance$129

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 33174's effective rate of 0.69%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 33174

33174 runs older than the country.

Median age
46
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
23%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.8
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1816%
18 to 3421%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6420%
65 and older23%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 33174.


Who works in 33174, and how

Work in 33174 centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
11%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.3%
below the national average
Job growth
+0.9%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social15%
Retail trade13%
Transportation & warehousing11%
Construction9%
Other services7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 84%
  • Work from home 11%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in 33174

33174 has more restaurants and bars per resident than 73% of zip codes. The coast is about 15 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of 33174 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
176
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 56.2 per 10,000 residents, more than 73% of zip codes
Coffee shops
8
about 2.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 51% of zip codes
Living on campus
568
students living in college or university housing
To the coast
15 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 33174, month by month

33174 sees roughly 74 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 79, with lows near 60. The comfortable stretch runs December through March.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January79°69°60°
April86°78°70°
July92°85°78°
October88°81°75°

Flying in and out of 33174

Miami International sits about 5 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 26.2 million passengers in 2025, with 233 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
MIA
Miami International, about 5 miles
Airport size
Large hub
10th-busiest in the US, 233 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 33174

Schools across 33174 average an A−, better than 79% of zip codes.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 33174 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


33174 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 33174 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Who 33174 suits

Families

Schools beat 79% of zip codes.

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Remote workers

Internet is fast and widely advertised and 11% already work from home.

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Retirees

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Common questions about living in 33174

Is 33174 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 33174 ranks 25,616th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on state infrastructure, transit, and walkability, and lowest on car insurance costs and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 33174 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $388,369. The overall cost of living runs about 10% above the national average. Set against a $64,076 median income, cost of living beats 10% of zip codes.

Is 33174 safe?

33174 is safer than 18% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $312 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in 33174?

July highs average about 92 degrees, and January highs near 79 with lows near 60. That works out to about 74 pleasant days a year, more than 34% of zip codes.

Is 33174 good for families?

Schools beat 79% of zip codes, crime safety beats 18%, and childcare runs $844 a month.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 33174. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 33174 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

33174 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 33174: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 33174: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 33174: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 33174: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

33174 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.