Best PlacesDavie, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Davie, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Distance to the water drives a lot of the difference between one part and the next. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Davie ranks 295th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 14 minutes away. Its strengths are state infrastructure and low taxes. The cost shows up in disaster risk, car insurance costs, and noise.
The best neighborhoods in Davie
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 Davie
The parts of Davie, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the city.
Flamingo Groves
Incomes run higher, local pay stretches further, and more adults hold degrees.
Central Davie
More residents vote, though fewer households have young kids.
Southwestern Davie
Fewer homes sit empty, though it is noisier.
Shenandoah Parkway & Griffiths Center
Homes cost less and crime runs lower.
The Village at Harmony Lake, Scarborough & Nob Hill Village
Health care is easier to reach, though heat risk is higher.
Driftwood
Transit reaches more jobs, though prices have run up more.
Davie Heights
Biking is better and streets are more walkable.
Scores across Davie run from about the 4th to the 80th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Davie's strengths and weaknesses
Davie lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. State infrastructure, low taxes, and clean air carry most of that.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Disaster risk, car insurance costs, and noise hold the score down. That varies block to block rather than evenly, and the map below shows where.
Where Davie ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 95% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 92% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 84% of cities
- School gradeB+, better than 82% of cities
Where Davie ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 6% of cities
- QuietBetter than only 11% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 12% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 15% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Davie
A household needs to earn about $126,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Davie home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $98,618, 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 Davie'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, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Davie
Davie's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Davie.
Who works in Davie, and how
Work in Davie 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 79%
- Work from home 17%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Davie
Davie has more restaurants and bars per resident than 75% of cities and more parkland per resident than 95% of cities. The coast is about 14 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Davie and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Davie, month by month
Davie sees roughly 80 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 79, with lows near 59. The comfortable stretch runs November through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 79° | 68° | 59° |
| April | 87° | 77° | 69° |
| July | 93° | 85° | 77° |
| October | 88° | 80° | 73° |
Flying in and out of Davie
Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International sits about 8 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 15.7 million passengers in 2025, with 180 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Davie
Schools across Davie average a B+, better than 82% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Somerset Academy Davie Charter SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
- Indian Trace Elementary SchoolA · 72% proficient
- Everglades Elementary SchoolA · 71% proficient
Top middle schools
- Falcon Cove Middle SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
- Pioneer Middle SchoolA · 64% proficient
- Tequesta Trace Middle SchoolA · 63% proficient
Top high schools
- Mcfatter Technical CollegeA · 77% proficient
- West Broward High SchoolA− · 63% proficient
- Western High SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Davie school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Davie 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 Davie against the other 444 cities.
Who Davie suits
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Davie
Is Davie a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Davie ranks 295th of 445 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and clean air, and lowest on disaster risk 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 Davie expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $474,499. The overall cost of living runs about 10% above the national average. Set against a $98,618 median income, cost of living beats 49% of cities.
Is Davie safe?
Yes, Davie is safer than 57% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $246 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Davie?
July highs average about 93 degrees, and January highs near 79 with lows near 59. That works out to about 80 pleasant days a year, more than 33% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Davie?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Flamingo Groves, Central Davie, and Southwestern Davie. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Davie good for families?
Schools beat 82% of cities, crime safety beats 57%, and childcare runs $969 a month.
Is Davie good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 49% of cities, though advertised internet speeds beat only 45% of cities. About 17% of workers already work from home.
Compare Davie with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Davie. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Davie 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.
Davie detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Davie: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Davie: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Davie: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Davie: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Davie 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.