Best PlacesHollywood, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Hollywood, 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.
Hollywood ranks 381st of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 7 minutes away. Its strengths are state infrastructure and low taxes. The cost shows up in an overheated housing market, car insurance costs, and disaster risk.
The best neighborhoods in Hollywood
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 Hollywood
The parts of Hollywood, 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.
Oakridge & Mapleridge
Local pay stretches further, more adults hold degrees, and incomes run higher.
Driftwood
Fewer homes sit empty and more households have young kids.
Hollywood Beach-Quadoman, Highland Garden & Parkside
It is quieter.
Royal Poinciana
Streets are more walkable, though homes cost more.
441 Corridor
Fewer residents vote and health care is harder to reach.
Hollywood Hills & Washington Park
Heat risk is higher.
Liberia
Crime runs higher and health outcomes score lower.
Beverly Park
Prices have run up less.
Scores across Hollywood run from about the 3rd to the 84th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Hollywood's strengths and weaknesses
Hollywood ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. State infrastructure, low taxes, and biking carry most of that.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: an overheated housing market, car insurance costs, and disaster risk all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Hollywood ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 95% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- BikingBetter than 90% of cities
- TransitBetter than 88% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 85% of cities
Where Hollywood ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 4% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 7% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 8% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than only 9% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Hollywood
A household needs to earn about $110,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Hollywood home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $75,699, 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 Hollywood's effective rate of 0.89%, 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 Hollywood
Hollywood'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 Hollywood.
Who works in Hollywood, and how
Work in Hollywood centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 79%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Hollywood
Hollywood has more restaurants and bars per resident than 87% of cities and more parkland per resident than 83% of cities. The coast is about 7 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Hollywood and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Hollywood, month by month
Hollywood sees roughly 81 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 78, with lows near 60. The comfortable stretch runs November through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 78° | 69° | 60° |
| April | 85° | 77° | 71° |
| July | 91° | 84° | 78° |
| October | 87° | 80° | 74° |
Flying in and out of Hollywood
Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International sits about 4 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 Hollywood
Schools across Hollywood average a B, better than 74% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Beachside Montessori VillageA+ · 83% proficient
- Ben Gamla Charter School North CampusA · 68% proficient
- Treasure Village Montessori Charter SchoolA · 67% proficient
Top middle schools
- Hollywood Academy Of Arts And Science Middle SchoolA+ · 78% proficient
- Nova Middle SchoolB · 47% proficient
- The Ben Gamla Preparatory AcademyB · 46% proficient
Top high schools
- Sheridan Technical CollegeA · 76% proficient
- Coral Shores High SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Avant Garde Academy Of BrowardB− · 43% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Hollywood school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Hollywood 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 Hollywood against the other 444 cities.
Who Hollywood suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 14% already work from home.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Hollywood
Is Hollywood a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Hollywood ranks 381st of 445 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and biking, and lowest on an overheated housing market 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 Hollywood expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $417,033. The overall cost of living runs about 8% above the national average. Set against a $75,699 median income, cost of living beats 12% of cities.
Is Hollywood safe?
Hollywood is safer than 9% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $382 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Hollywood?
July highs average about 91 degrees, and January highs near 78 with lows near 60. That works out to about 81 pleasant days a year, more than 34% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Hollywood?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Oakridge & Mapleridge, Driftwood, and Hollywood Beach-Quadoman, Highland Garden & Parkside. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Hollywood good for families?
Schools beat 74% of cities, crime safety beats 9%, and childcare runs $969 a month.
Is Hollywood good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 12% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 69% of cities. About 14% of workers already work from home.
Compare Hollywood with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Hollywood. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Hollywood 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.
Hollywood detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Hollywood: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Hollywood: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Hollywood: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Hollywood: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Hollywood 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.