Best PlacesIves Estates, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Ives Estates, 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.
Ives Estates ranks 1,580th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Ives Estates
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.
Ives Estates' strengths and weaknesses
Where Ives Estates ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 96% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- TransitBetter than 84% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 84% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 80% of cities
Where Ives Estates ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of cities
- Short commute34.3 minutes each way, better than only 8% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 8% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than only 13% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 13% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Ives Estates
A household needs to earn about $86,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Ives Estates home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $81,066; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Ives Estates' effective rate of 0.78%, 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 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Ives Estates
Ives Estates runs younger than the country, 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 Ives Estates.
Who works in Ives Estates, and how
Work in Ives Estates centers on health care & social and hospitality & food. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Ives Estates
Ives Estates has more parkland per resident than 84% of cities. The coast is about 8 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Ives Estates and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Ives Estates, month by month
Ives Estates 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 Ives Estates
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 Ives Estates
Schools across Ives Estates average a B, better than 62% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Aventura Waterways K-8 CenterA− · 60% proficient
- Ojus Elementary SchoolB · 50% proficient
- Virginia A Boone-highland Oaks SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top middle schools
- John F. Kennedy Middle SchoolA− · 53% proficient
- Highland Oaks Middle SchoolB− · 41% proficient
- Andover Middle SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Iprep Academy NorthA− · 63% proficient
- Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior HighB− · 41% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Ives Estates school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Ives Estates 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 Ives Estates against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Ives Estates 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 Ives Estates
Is Ives Estates a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Ives Estates ranks 1,580th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and transit, and lowest on car insurance costs and long commutes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Ives Estates expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $329,260. The overall cost of living runs about 3% below the national average. Set against a $81,066 median income, cost of living beats 32% of cities.
Is Ives Estates safe?
Ives Estates is safer than 13% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $306 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Ives Estates?
July highs average about 93 degrees, and January highs near 79 with lows near 59. That works out to about 77 pleasant days a year, more than 40% of cities.
Is Ives Estates good for families?
Schools beat 62% of cities, crime safety beats 13%, and childcare runs $844 a month.
Compare Ives Estates with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Ives Estates. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Ives Estates 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.
Ives Estates detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Ives Estates: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Ives Estates: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Ives Estates: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Ives Estates: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Ives Estates 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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