Best PlacesMiramar, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Miramar, 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.
Miramar ranks 301st of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 17 minutes away. Its strengths are few empty homes and state infrastructure. The cost shows up in car insurance costs, disaster risk, and long commutes.
The best neighborhoods in Miramar
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 Miramar
The parts of Miramar, 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.
Silver Lakes
Local pay stretches further, incomes run higher, and more adults hold degrees.
Country Lakes
Transit reaches fewer jobs and fewer households have young kids.
Central Miramar
Heat risk is lower, though fewer residents vote.
Lakeshore at University Park & Miramar Town Center
Schools score lower.
Beverly Park
Streets are more walkable, though health outcomes score lower.
Miramar Park
Homes cost less, though it is noisier.
Eastern Miramar
Crime runs higher.
Miramar shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 4% of the country and others in the top 9%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Miramar's strengths and weaknesses
Miramar lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Few empty homes, state infrastructure, and low taxes carry most of that.
The one real hole is car insurance costs, near the bottom of the country. Disaster risk and long commutes also cost it ground. Cost swings more from one part of Miramar to another than it does between Miramar and its neighbors, which the map below shows.
Where Miramar ranks high
- Low vacancyBetter than 96% of cities
- State infrastructureBetter than 95% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- Local economyBetter than 89% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 89% of cities
Where Miramar ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 3% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of cities
- Short commute31.1 minutes each way, better than only 13% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 15% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than only 23% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Miramar
A household needs to earn about $125,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Miramar home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $103,468, 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 Miramar's effective rate of 0.91%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Miramar
Miramar's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Miramar.
Who works in Miramar, and how
Work in Miramar centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Miramar
Miramar has more parkland per resident than 81% of cities. The coast is about 17 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Miramar and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Miramar, month by month
Miramar sees roughly 86 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 Miramar
Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International sits about 11 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 Miramar
Schools across Miramar average a B, better than 67% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Somerset Academy Miramar SouthA+ · 85% proficient
- Somerset AcademyA+ · 73% proficient
- Sunset Lakes Elementary SchoolA · 64% proficient
Top middle schools
- City/pembroke Pines Charter Middle SchoolA+ · 71% proficient
- Somerset Academy Middle (miramar Campus)A · 66% proficient
- Silver Trail Middle SchoolA · 62% proficient
Top high schools
- West Broward High SchoolA− · 63% proficient
- Everglades High SchoolB · 46% proficient
- Somerset Academy Charter High School Miramar CampusC+ · 40% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Miramar school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Miramar 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 Miramar against the other 444 cities.
Who Miramar suits
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Miramar
Is Miramar a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Miramar ranks 301st of 445 cities. It scores highest on few empty homes, state infrastructure, and low taxes, 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 Miramar expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $471,615. The overall cost of living runs about 7% above the national average. Set against a $103,468 median income, cost of living beats 64% of cities.
Is Miramar safe?
Miramar is safer than 29% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $294 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Miramar?
July highs average about 93 degrees, and January highs near 79 with lows near 59. That works out to about 86 pleasant days a year, more than 37% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Miramar?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Silver Lakes, Country Lakes, and Central Miramar. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Miramar good for families?
Schools beat 67% of cities, crime safety beats 29%, and childcare runs $969 a month.
Is Miramar good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 64% of cities, though advertised internet speeds beat only 50% of cities. About 13% of workers already work from home.
Compare Miramar with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Miramar. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Miramar 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.
Miramar detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Miramar: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Miramar: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Miramar: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Miramar: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Miramar 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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