Best PlacesBuenaventura Lakes, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Buenaventura Lakes, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Buenaventura Lakes ranks 1,644th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Buenaventura Lakes
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.
The best areas in Buenaventura Lakes
The parts of Buenaventura Lakes, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Villa Sol Village
Silver Park Villas
Cypress Lake
Eagle Bay
Scores across Buenaventura Lakes run from about the 15th to the 54th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Buenaventura Lakes' strengths and weaknesses
Where Buenaventura Lakes ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 96% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 86% of cities
- Nice weatherabout 139 pleasant days a year, better than 79% of cities
- State fiscal healthBetter than 76% of cities
Where Buenaventura Lakes ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 5% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 8% of cities
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 10% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 11% of cities
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 12% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Buenaventura Lakes
A household needs to earn about $85,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Buenaventura Lakes home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $73,755, 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 Buenaventura Lakes' effective rate of 0.71%, 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.
Who lives in Buenaventura Lakes
Buenaventura Lakes runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Buenaventura Lakes.
Who works in Buenaventura Lakes, and how
Work in Buenaventura Lakes centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Buenaventura Lakes
Buenaventura Lakes has more parkland per resident than 80% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Buenaventura Lakes and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Buenaventura Lakes, month by month
Buenaventura Lakes sees roughly 139 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 73, with lows near 50. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 73° | 61° | 50° |
| April | 85° | 73° | 62° |
| July | 93° | 83° | 75° |
| October | 86° | 77° | 69° |
Flying in and out of Buenaventura Lakes
Orlando International sits about 7 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 28.1 million passengers in 2025, with 223 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Buenaventura Lakes
Schools across Buenaventura Lakes average a C+, better than 39% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- East Lake Elementary SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Ventura Elementary SchoolB− · 41% proficient
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolC+ · 39% proficient
Top middle schools
- Narcoossee Middle SchoolA− · 56% proficient
- Neptune Middle SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
- Parkway Middle SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
Top high schools
- Gateway High SchoolC+ · 40% proficient
- Osceola High SchoolC+ · 35% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Buenaventura Lakes school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Buenaventura Lakes 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 Buenaventura Lakes against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Buenaventura Lakes suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 11% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Buenaventura Lakes
Is Buenaventura Lakes a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Buenaventura Lakes ranks 1,644th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and clean air, and lowest on car insurance costs 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 Buenaventura Lakes expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $331,275. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $73,755 median income, cost of living beats 30% of cities.
Is Buenaventura Lakes safe?
Buenaventura Lakes is safer than 39% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $223 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Buenaventura Lakes?
July highs average about 93 degrees, and January highs near 73 with lows near 50. That works out to about 139 pleasant days a year, more than 79% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Buenaventura Lakes?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Villa Sol Village, Silver Park Villas, and Cypress Lake. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Buenaventura Lakes with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Buenaventura Lakes. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Buenaventura Lakes 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.
Buenaventura Lakes detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Buenaventura Lakes: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Buenaventura Lakes: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Buenaventura Lakes: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Buenaventura Lakes: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Buenaventura Lakes 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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