Best PlacesBelleair, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Belleair, 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.
Belleair ranks 2,517th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Belleair
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's strengths and weaknesses
Where Belleair ranks high
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 97% of towns
Where Belleair 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
A household needs to earn about $168,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Belleair home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $118,657, 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's effective rate of 0.90%, 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
Belleair 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.
Who works in Belleair, and how
Work in Belleair centers on health care & social and real estate. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 21%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Belleair
The coast is about 7 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Belleair, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Belleair, month by month
Belleair 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
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 17 miles away.
The best schools in and around Belleair
Schools across Belleair average a B, better than 63% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Belleair Elementary SchoolB · 48% proficient
- 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 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Belleair 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 against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Belleair
Is Belleair a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Belleair ranks 2,517th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, state infrastructure, and health care access, 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 expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $632,640. The overall cost of living runs about 5% below the national average. Set against a $118,657 median income, cost of living beats 96% of towns.
Is Belleair safe?
Belleair is safer than 50% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $194 per resident a year.
Compare Belleair with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Belleair. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Belleair 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 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Belleair: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Belleair: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Belleair: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Belleair: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Belleair 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
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