Best PlacesBelleair Bluffs, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Belleair Bluffs, 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.
Belleair Bluffs ranks 17,110th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on walkability by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Belleair Bluffs
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.
Belleair Bluffs' strengths and weaknesses
Where Belleair Bluffs ranks high
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 96% of towns
Where Belleair Bluffs ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 4% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,048 a month, better than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Belleair Bluffs
A household needs to earn about $109,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Belleair Bluffs home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $65,616, 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 Belleair Bluffs' effective rate of 0.74%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Belleair Bluffs
Belleair Bluffs runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Belleair Bluffs.
Who works in Belleair Bluffs, and how
Work in Belleair Bluffs centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 73%
- Work from home 20%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Belleair Bluffs
Belleair Bluffs has more restaurants and bars per resident than 91% of towns. The coast is about 5 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Belleair Bluffs and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Belleair Bluffs, month by month
Belleair Bluffs sees roughly 151 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 73, with lows near 52. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 73° | 61° | 52° |
| April | 85° | 74° | 65° |
| July | 93° | 84° | 77° |
| October | 87° | 78° | 71° |
Flying in and out of Belleair Bluffs
The nearest airport, St Pete-Clearwater International, is about 8 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Tampa International, about 18 miles away.
The best schools in and around Belleair Bluffs
Schools across Belleair Bluffs average a B, better than 63% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Mildred Helms Elementary SchoolB · 48% proficient
Top middle schools
- Largo Middle SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
Top high schools
- Largo High SchoolB · 48% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Belleair Bluffs school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Belleair Bluffs 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 Belleair Bluffs against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Belleair Bluffs
Is Belleair Bluffs a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Belleair Bluffs ranks 17,110th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on walkability, state infrastructure, and biking, and lowest on summer heat and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Belleair Bluffs expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $421,048. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $65,616 median income, cost of living beats 40% of towns.
Is Belleair Bluffs safe?
Belleair Bluffs is safer than 31% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $239 per resident a year.
Compare Belleair Bluffs with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Belleair Bluffs. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Belleair Bluffs 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.
Belleair Bluffs detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Belleair Bluffs: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Belleair Bluffs: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Belleair Bluffs: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Belleair Bluffs: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Belleair Bluffs 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.
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