Best PlacesOliver Beach, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Oliver Beach, 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.
Oliver Beach ranks 22,367th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a stable housing market by a wide margin, and taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Oliver Beach
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.
Oliver Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Where Oliver Beach ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 99% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 99% of towns
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- BikingBetter than 97% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 96% of towns
Where Oliver Beach ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,377 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 8% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Oliver Beach
A household needs to earn about $100,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Oliver Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $120,865, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 Oliver Beach's effective rate of 1.03%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Oliver Beach
Oliver Beach runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Oliver Beach.
Who works in Oliver Beach, and how
Work in Oliver Beach centers on construction and arts & entertainment. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 91%
- Work from home 5%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Oliver Beach
The coast is about 1 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Oliver Beach, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Oliver Beach, month by month
Oliver Beach sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 36° | 30° |
| April | 65° | 56° | 47° |
| July | 88° | 80° | 72° |
| October | 69° | 60° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Oliver Beach
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall sits about 22 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.3 million passengers in 2025, with 114 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Oliver Beach
Schools across Oliver Beach average a D, better than 8% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Oliver Beach ElementaryD · 19% proficient
- Edgewood ElementaryD− · 11% proficient
Top middle schools
- Edgewood MiddleD · 21% proficient
- Middle River MiddleD · 21% proficient
Top high schools
- Edgewood HighB · 50% proficient
- Kenwood HighD · 21% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Oliver Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Oliver Beach 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 Oliver Beach against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Oliver Beach
Is Oliver Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Oliver Beach ranks 22,367th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a stable housing market, civic engagement, and quiet, and lowest on taxes and a weak job market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Oliver Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $371,300. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $120,865 median income, cost of living beats 95% of towns.
Is Oliver Beach safe?
Oliver Beach is safer than 16% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $452 per resident a year.
Compare Oliver Beach with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Oliver Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Oliver Beach 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.
Oliver Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Oliver Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Oliver Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Oliver Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Oliver Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Oliver Beach 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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