Best PlacesCoral Terrace, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Coral Terrace, 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.
Coral Terrace ranks 27,873rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on walkability by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Coral Terrace
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.
Coral Terrace's strengths and weaknesses
Where Coral Terrace ranks high
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 97% of towns
Where Coral Terrace ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 6% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Coral Terrace
A household needs to earn about $148,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Coral Terrace home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $87,888, 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 Coral Terrace's effective rate of 0.69%, 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 Coral Terrace
Coral Terrace runs older 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 Coral Terrace.
Who works in Coral Terrace, and how
Work in Coral Terrace centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Coral Terrace
Coral Terrace has more restaurants and bars per resident than 76% of towns and more parkland per resident than 81% of towns. The coast is about 11 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Coral Terrace and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Coral Terrace, month by month
Coral Terrace sees roughly 74 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 79, with lows near 60. The comfortable stretch runs December through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 79° | 69° | 60° |
| April | 86° | 78° | 70° |
| July | 92° | 85° | 78° |
| October | 88° | 81° | 75° |
Flying in and out of Coral Terrace
Miami International sits about 4 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 26.2 million passengers in 2025, with 233 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Coral Terrace
Schools across Coral Terrace average a B+, better than 74% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Seminole Elementary SchoolA · 67% proficient
- David Fairchild Elementary SchoolA · 66% proficient
- Emerson Elementary SchoolA− · 62% proficient
Top middle schools
- South Miami Middle SchoolA · 59% proficient
- West Miami Middle SchoolC · 33% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Coral Terrace school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Coral Terrace 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 Terrace against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Coral Terrace suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 16% already work from home.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Coral Terrace
Is Coral Terrace a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Coral Terrace ranks 27,873rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on walkability, biking, and transit, and lowest on car insurance costs and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Coral Terrace expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $574,827. The overall cost of living runs about 23% above the national average. Set against a $87,888 median income, cost of living beats 26% of towns.
Is Coral Terrace safe?
Coral Terrace is safer than 15% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $312 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Coral Terrace?
July highs average about 92 degrees, and January highs near 79 with lows near 60. That works out to about 74 pleasant days a year, more than 36% of towns.
Is Coral Terrace good for families?
Schools beat 74% of towns, crime safety beats 15%, and childcare runs $844 a month.
Compare Coral Terrace with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Coral Terrace. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Coral Terrace 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 Terrace detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Coral Terrace: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Coral Terrace: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Coral Terrace: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Coral Terrace: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Coral Terrace 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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