Best PlacesPerrine, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Perrine, 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.
Perrine ranks 47,084th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on walkability by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Perrine
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.
Perrine's strengths and weaknesses
Where Perrine ranks high
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 96% of towns
Where Perrine ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Perrine
A household needs to earn about $84,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Perrine home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $53,363, 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 Perrine's effective rate of 0.67%, 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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Perrine
Perrine runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Perrine.
Who works in Perrine, and how
Work in Perrine centers on health care & social and hospitality & food. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 91%
- Work from home 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Perrine
The coast is about 5 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Perrine, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Perrine, month by month
Perrine sees roughly 91 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 79, with lows near 57. The comfortable stretch runs November through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 79° | 67° | 57° |
| April | 87° | 77° | 66° |
| July | 93° | 84° | 76° |
| October | 88° | 79° | 72° |
Flying in and out of Perrine
Miami International sits about 14 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 26.2 million passengers in 2025, with 233 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Perrine
Schools across Perrine average a B, better than 61% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Coral Reef Elementary SchoolA+ · 74% proficient
- Dr. Henry E. Perrine Academy Of The ArtsA− · 57% proficient
- Dr. Edward L. Whigham Elementary SchoolB · 49% proficient
Top middle schools
- Southwood Middle SchoolA · 61% proficient
- Cutler Bay MiddleC+ · 35% proficient
- Richmond Heights Middle SchoolC · 31% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Perrine school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Perrine 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 Perrine against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Perrine
Is Perrine a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Perrine ranks 47,084th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on walkability, transit, and state infrastructure, and lowest on car insurance costs and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Perrine expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $326,500. The overall cost of living runs about 14% above the national average. Set against a $53,363 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.
Is Perrine safe?
Perrine is safer than 6% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $428 per resident a year.
Compare Perrine with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Perrine. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Perrine 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.
Perrine detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Perrine: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Perrine: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Perrine: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Perrine: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Perrine 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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