Best PlacesGolden Beach, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Golden Beach, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Golden Beach ranks 3,960th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on civic engagement by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Golden Beach
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.
Golden Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Where Golden Beach ranks high
- Voter turnoutBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$236,250 median, better than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
Where Golden Beach ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Golden Beach
A household needs to earn about $534,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Golden Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $236,250, 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 Golden Beach's effective rate of 0.95%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Golden Beach
Golden Beach runs older than the country, though fewer residents are over 65 than the national share, 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 Golden Beach.
Who works in Golden Beach, and how
Work in Golden Beach centers on real estate and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 63%
- Work from home 30%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Golden Beach
The coast is about 0 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Golden Beach, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Golden Beach, month by month
Golden Beach sees roughly 77 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 Golden Beach
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 Golden Beach
Schools across Golden Beach average a B+, better than 74% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Norman S. Edelcup/sunny Isles Beach K-8A · 65% proficient
Top middle schools
- Highland Oaks Middle SchoolB− · 41% proficient
Top high schools
- Alonzo & Tracy Mourning Senior High SchoolB · 47% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Golden Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Golden Beach 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 Golden Beach against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Golden Beach
Is Golden Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Golden Beach ranks 3,960th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on civic engagement, what local pay buys, and high incomes, and lowest on car insurance costs and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Golden Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $2,000,001. The overall cost of living runs about 29% above the national average. Set against a $236,250 median income, cost of living beats 100% of towns.
Is Golden Beach safe?
Golden Beach is safer than 6% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $426 per resident a year.
Compare Golden Beach with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Golden Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Golden Beach 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.
Golden Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Golden Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Golden Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Golden Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Golden Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Golden Beach 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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