Best PlacesCypress Gardens, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Cypress Gardens, 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.
Cypress Gardens ranks 13,216th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Cypress Gardens
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.
Cypress Gardens' strengths and weaknesses
Where Cypress Gardens ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 96% of towns
- TransitBetter than 95% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 92% of towns
- BikingBetter than 92% of towns
Where Cypress Gardens ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 6% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 15% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 22% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 28% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Cypress Gardens
A household needs to earn about $74,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Cypress Gardens home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $77,276, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 Cypress Gardens' effective rate of 0.64%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Cypress Gardens
Cypress Gardens runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Cypress Gardens.
Who works in Cypress Gardens, and how
Work in Cypress Gardens centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Cypress Gardens
Cypress Gardens has more restaurants and bars per resident than 75% of towns and more parkland per resident than 93% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Cypress Gardens and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Cypress Gardens, month by month
Cypress Gardens sees roughly 128 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 74, with lows near 50. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 74° | 61° | 50° |
| April | 87° | 74° | 63° |
| July | 94° | 83° | 75° |
| October | 89° | 78° | 69° |
Flying in and out of Cypress Gardens
Orlando International sits about 37 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 Cypress Gardens
Schools across Cypress Gardens average a C, better than 38% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Chain Of Lakes Elementary SchoolA− · 58% proficient
- Pinewood Elementary SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Garden Grove Elementary SchoolB− · 41% proficient
Top middle schools
- Denison Middle SchoolD · 23% proficient
Top high schools
- Winter Haven Senior High SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
- Lake Region High SchoolC− · 26% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Cypress Gardens school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Cypress Gardens 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 Cypress Gardens against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Cypress Gardens
Is Cypress Gardens a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Cypress Gardens ranks 13,216th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and transit, and lowest on summer heat and car insurance costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Cypress Gardens expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $290,344. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $77,276 median income, cost of living beats 67% of towns.
Is Cypress Gardens safe?
Yes, Cypress Gardens is safer than 78% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $145 per resident a year.
Compare Cypress Gardens with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Cypress Gardens. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cypress Gardens 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.
Cypress Gardens detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Cypress Gardens: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Cypress Gardens: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Cypress Gardens: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Cypress Gardens: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Cypress Gardens 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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