Best PlacesOcean Ridge, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Ocean Ridge, 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.
Ocean Ridge ranks 6,513th 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 Ocean Ridge
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.
Ocean Ridge's strengths and weaknesses
Where Ocean Ridge ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
Where Ocean Ridge 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 4% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Ocean Ridge
A household needs to earn about $265,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Ocean Ridge home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $150,491, 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 Ocean Ridge's effective rate of 0.79%, 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 Ocean Ridge
Ocean Ridge 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 Ocean Ridge.
Who works in Ocean Ridge, and how
Work in Ocean Ridge centers on professional & technical and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 68%
- Work from home 24%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Ocean Ridge
The coast is about 0 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Ocean Ridge, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Ocean Ridge, month by month
Ocean Ridge sees roughly 91 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 Ocean Ridge
Palm Beach International sits about 11 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 Ocean Ridge
Schools across Ocean Ridge average a C+, better than 39% of towns.
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 Ocean Ridge school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Ocean Ridge 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 Ocean Ridge against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Ocean Ridge
Is Ocean Ridge a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Ocean Ridge ranks 6,513th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, what local pay buys, 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 Ocean Ridge expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,014,951. The overall cost of living runs about 6% above the national average. Set against a $150,491 median income, cost of living beats 100% of towns.
Is Ocean Ridge safe?
Ocean Ridge is safer than 30% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $243 per resident a year.
Compare Ocean Ridge with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Ocean Ridge. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Ocean Ridge 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.
Ocean Ridge detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Ocean Ridge: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Ocean Ridge: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Ocean Ridge: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Ocean Ridge: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Ocean Ridge 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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