Best PlacesCoral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale, FL Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale, 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.

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Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale ranks 2,751st of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%State infrastructure
Top 5%Low taxes
Top 10%Health care access
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale with other neighborhoods.

Where Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale ranks high

  • State infrastructureBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of neighborhoods
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 93% of neighborhoods
  • Cell coverageBetter than 90% of neighborhoods
  • Voter turnoutBetter than 83% of neighborhoods

Where Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale ranks low

  • Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 8% of neighborhoods
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 10% of neighborhoods
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 13% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale

A household needs to earn about $179,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $101,696, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$179,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$4,175
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $671,671 home
Median rent
$1,821
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,425
Property tax$526
Homeowners insurance$224

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 Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale's effective rate of 0.94%, 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.

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

Who lives in Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale

Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
58
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
40%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
1.8
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1812%
18 to 3411%
35 to 4916%
50 to 6420%
65 and older40%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale.


Who works in Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale, and how

Work in Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
21%
above the national average
Unemployment
2.6%
below the national average
Job growth
+3.1%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical17%
Health care & social11%
Retail trade11%
Education9%
Construction7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 75%
  • Work from home 21%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale

Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale has more restaurants and bars per resident than 91% of neighborhoods. The coast is about 2 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
140
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 234.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 91% of neighborhoods
Coffee shops
13
about 21.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 88% of neighborhoods
To the coast
2 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale, month by month

Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale sees roughly 80 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 79, with lows near 59. The comfortable stretch runs November through March.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January79°68°59°
April86°77°69°
July92°84°77°
October88°80°73°

Flying in and out of Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale

The nearest airport, Fort Lauderdale Exec, is about 4 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International, about 8 miles away.

Nearest airport
FXE
Fort Lauderdale Exec, about 4 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
387th-busiest in the US, 5 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale

Schools across Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale average a B, better than 71% of neighborhoods.

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Top middle schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale 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 Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale

Is Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale ranks 2,751st of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and health care access, and lowest on summer heat and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $671,671. The overall cost of living runs about 22% above the national average. Set against a $101,696 median income, cost of living beats 67% of neighborhoods.

Is Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale safe?

Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale is safer than 35% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $372 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 Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale 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.

Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, Fort Lauderdale 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.