Best PlacesManalapan, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Manalapan, 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.
Manalapan ranks 31,634th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Manalapan
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.
Manalapan's strengths and weaknesses
Where Manalapan ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 97% of towns
- TransitBetter than 96% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 96% of towns
Where Manalapan ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Manalapan
A household needs to earn about $526,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Manalapan home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $78,000, 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 Manalapan's effective rate of 0.85%, 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 Manalapan
Manalapan 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 Manalapan.
Who works in Manalapan, and how
Work in Manalapan centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 57%
- Work from home 35%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Manalapan
The coast is about 0 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Manalapan, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Manalapan, month by month
Manalapan sees roughly 89 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 78, with lows near 57. The comfortable stretch runs November through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 78° | 67° | 57° |
| April | 85° | 76° | 68° |
| July | 92° | 84° | 77° |
| October | 87° | 80° | 73° |
Flying in and out of Manalapan
Palm Beach International sits about 9 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 Manalapan
Schools across Manalapan average a C+, better than 38% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Lantana Elementary SchoolC− · 28% proficient
- Rolling Green Elementary SchoolD+ · 21% proficient
Top middle schools
- Lantana Middle SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Top high schools
- Lake Worth High SchoolC− · 27% proficient
- Boynton Beach Community HighC− · 26% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Manalapan school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Manalapan 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 Manalapan against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Manalapan
Is Manalapan a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Manalapan ranks 31,634th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, state infrastructure, and an educated workforce, and lowest on an overheated housing market and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Manalapan expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $2,000,001. The overall cost of living runs about 7% above the national average. Set against a $78,000 median income, cost of living beats 74% of towns.
Is Manalapan safe?
Manalapan is safer than 14% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $314 per resident a year.
Compare Manalapan with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Manalapan. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Manalapan 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.
Manalapan detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Manalapan: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Manalapan: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Manalapan: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Manalapan: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Manalapan 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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