Best PlacesGolf, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Golf, 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.
Golf ranks 13,933rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Golf
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.
Golf's strengths and weaknesses
Where Golf ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 98% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 97% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 96% of towns
Where Golf ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,238 a month, better than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Golf
A household needs to earn about $138,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Golf home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $104,792, 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 Golf's effective rate of 0.87%, 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Golf
Golf 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 Golf.
Who works in Golf, and how
Work in Golf centers on health care & social and transportation & warehousing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 69%
- Work from home 28%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Golf
The coast is about 7 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Golf, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Golf, month by month
Golf sees roughly 92 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 76, with lows near 62. The comfortable stretch runs December through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 76° | 70° | 62° |
| April | 84° | 78° | 71° |
| July | 92° | 86° | 79° |
| October | 86° | 81° | 76° |
Flying in and out of Golf
Palm Beach International sits about 12 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.3 million passengers in 2025, with 67 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Golf
Schools across Golf average a C, better than 38% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Crosspointe Elementary SchoolC+ · 35% proficient
Top middle schools
- Congress Community Middle SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Atlantic High SchoolB · 45% proficient
- Boynton Beach Community HighC− · 26% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Golf school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Golf 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 Golf against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Golf
Is Golf a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Golf ranks 13,933rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, state infrastructure, and biking, 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 Golf expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $523,123. The overall cost of living runs about 0% above the national average. Set against a $104,792 median income, cost of living beats 92% of towns.
Is Golf safe?
Golf is safer than 34% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $233 per resident a year.
Compare Golf with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Golf. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Golf 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.
Golf detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Golf: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Golf: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Golf: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Golf: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Golf 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.