Best PlacesApollo Beach, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Apollo Beach, 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.
Apollo Beach ranks 681st of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low crime by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Apollo Beach
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.
Apollo Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Where Apollo Beach ranks high
- Crime safetyBetter than 98% of cities
- Local economyBetter than 96% of cities
- State infrastructureBetter than 96% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 86% of cities
Where Apollo Beach ranks low
- Short commute36.1 minutes each way, better than only 4% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 7% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 9% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 13% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 15% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Apollo Beach
A household needs to earn about $128,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Apollo Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $114,044, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Apollo Beach's effective rate of 1.16%, 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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Apollo Beach
Apollo Beach runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Apollo Beach.
Who works in Apollo Beach, and how
Work in Apollo Beach centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 67%
- Work from home 30%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Apollo Beach
Apollo Beach has more parkland per resident than 78% of cities. The coast is about 7 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Apollo Beach and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Apollo Beach, month by month
Apollo Beach sees roughly 113 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 72, with lows near 50. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 72° | 60° | 50° |
| April | 85° | 74° | 63° |
| July | 92° | 83° | 75° |
| October | 87° | 77° | 68° |
Flying in and out of Apollo Beach
Tampa International sits about 17 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.1 million passengers in 2025, with 135 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Apollo Beach
Schools across Apollo Beach average a B, better than 54% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Tinker K-8 SchoolA · 69% proficient
- Apollo Beach Elementary SchoolA · 68% proficient
- Patricia Sullivan Metropolitan Ministries Partnership SchoolA− · 58% proficient
Top middle schools
- Shields Middle SchoolC− · 29% proficient
- Dowdell Middle Magnet SchoolD+ · 26% proficient
Top high schools
- Robinson High SchoolB+ · 57% proficient
- Lennard High SchoolB− · 41% proficient
- East Bay High SchoolC · 31% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Apollo Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Apollo Beach 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 Apollo Beach against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Apollo Beach suits
Families
Schools land around the 54th percentile and crime safety beats 98%.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 86% of cities, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 30% already work from home.
Retirees
The weather beats 67% of cities and health care access beats 70%.
Common questions about living in Apollo Beach
Is Apollo Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Apollo Beach ranks 681st of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on low crime, a strong job market, and state infrastructure, and lowest on long commutes and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Apollo Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $468,364. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $114,044 median income, cost of living beats 86% of cities.
Is Apollo Beach safe?
Yes, Apollo Beach is safer than 98% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $105 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Apollo Beach?
July highs average about 92 degrees, and January highs near 72 with lows near 50. That works out to about 113 pleasant days a year, more than 67% of cities.
Is Apollo Beach good for families?
Schools beat 54% of cities, crime safety beats 98%, and childcare runs $973 a month.
Compare Apollo Beach with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Apollo Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Apollo Beach 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.
Apollo Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Apollo Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Apollo Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Apollo Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Apollo Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Apollo Beach detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.