Best PlacesAvalon Park Village, Alafaya, FL Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Avalon Park Village, Alafaya, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Avalon Park Village, Alafaya ranks 309th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a strong job market by a wide margin, and biking ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Avalon Park Village, Alafaya

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Avalon Park Village, Alafaya area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Avalon Park Village, Alafaya's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%A strong job market
Top 3%Low crime
Top 3%Good schools
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Avalon Park Village, Alafaya with other neighborhoods.

Where Avalon Park Village, Alafaya ranks high

  • Local economyBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Crime safetyBetter than 97% of neighborhoods
  • School gradeA, better than 97% of neighborhoods
  • Low vacancyBetter than 97% of neighborhoods
  • State infrastructureBetter than 96% of neighborhoods

Where Avalon Park Village, Alafaya ranks low

  • BikingBetter than only 3% of neighborhoods
  • WalkabilityBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • TransitBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • Internet speedBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
  • Short commute35.3 minutes each way, better than only 6% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Avalon Park Village, Alafaya

A household needs to earn about $130,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Avalon Park Village, Alafaya home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $130,680, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$130,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$3,026
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $494,117 home
Median rent
$2,214
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$2,519
Property tax$342
Homeowners insurance$165

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 Avalon Park Village, Alafaya's effective rate of 0.83%, 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.

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

Who lives in Avalon Park Village, Alafaya

Avalon Park Village, Alafaya runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
38
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
8%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.1
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1833%
18 to 3417%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6422%
65 and older8%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Avalon Park Village, Alafaya.


Who works in Avalon Park Village, Alafaya, and how

Work in Avalon Park Village, Alafaya centers on education and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
29%
above the national average
Unemployment
1.4%
below the national average
Job growth
+7.5%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Education16%
Professional & technical15%
Finance & insurance9%
Health care & social8%
Utilities7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 70%
  • Work from home 29%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 1%

Life in Avalon Park Village, Alafaya

The coast is about 46 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Avalon Park Village, Alafaya, which the map shows.

To the coast
46 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Avalon Park Village, Alafaya, month by month

Avalon Park Village, Alafaya sees roughly 130 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 74, with lows near 50. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January74°61°50°
April86°74°64°
July94°83°76°
October87°77°69°

Flying in and out of Avalon Park Village, Alafaya

Orlando International sits about 12 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 28.1 million passengers in 2025, with 223 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
MCO
Orlando International, about 12 miles
Airport size
Large hub
7th-busiest in the US, 223 nonstop destinations
Average drive
17 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Avalon Park Village, Alafaya

Schools across Avalon Park Village, Alafaya average an A, better than 97% of neighborhoods.

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


Avalon Park Village, Alafaya 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 Avalon Park Village, Alafaya against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Avalon Park Village, Alafaya

Is Avalon Park Village, Alafaya a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Avalon Park Village, Alafaya ranks 309th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on a strong job market, low crime, and good schools, and lowest on biking and walkability. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Avalon Park Village, Alafaya expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $494,117. The overall cost of living runs about 13% below the national average. Set against a $130,680 median income, cost of living beats 96% of neighborhoods.

Is Avalon Park Village, Alafaya safe?

Yes, Avalon Park Village, Alafaya is safer than 97% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $115 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Avalon Park Village, Alafaya. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Avalon Park Village, Alafaya 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.

Avalon Park Village, Alafaya detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Avalon Park Village, Alafaya 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.