Best PlacesGlenvar Heights, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Glenvar Heights, 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.
Glenvar Heights ranks 17,993rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Glenvar Heights
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.
Glenvar Heights' strengths and weaknesses
Where Glenvar Heights ranks high
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
Where Glenvar Heights ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 3% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Glenvar Heights
A household needs to earn about $173,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Glenvar Heights home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $95,571, 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 Glenvar Heights' effective rate of 0.76%, 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 Glenvar Heights
Glenvar Heights runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Glenvar Heights.
Who works in Glenvar Heights, and how
Work in Glenvar Heights centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Glenvar Heights
Glenvar Heights has more restaurants and bars per resident than 76% of towns and more parkland per resident than 97% of towns. The coast is about 8 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Glenvar Heights and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Glenvar Heights, month by month
Glenvar Heights 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 Glenvar Heights
Miami International sits about 7 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 Glenvar Heights
Schools across Glenvar Heights average an A−, better than 81% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Pinecrest Elementary SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
- Emerson Elementary SchoolA− · 62% proficient
- Kenwood K-8 CenterA− · 57% proficient
Top middle schools
- Palmetto Middle SchoolA · 63% proficient
- South Miami Middle SchoolA · 59% proficient
- Glades Middle SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
Top high schools
- South Miami Senior High SchoolC · 34% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Glenvar Heights school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Glenvar Heights 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 Glenvar Heights against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Glenvar Heights
Is Glenvar Heights a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Glenvar Heights ranks 17,993rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on transit, state infrastructure, and population health, 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 Glenvar Heights expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $666,996. The overall cost of living runs about 40% above the national average. Set against a $95,571 median income, cost of living beats 30% of towns.
Is Glenvar Heights safe?
Glenvar Heights is safer than 28% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $260 per resident a year.
Compare Glenvar Heights with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Glenvar Heights. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Glenvar Heights 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.
Glenvar Heights detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Glenvar Heights: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Glenvar Heights: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Glenvar Heights: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Glenvar Heights: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Glenvar Heights 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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