Best PlacesPine Hills, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pine Hills, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The averages are not the whole story, and the strongest areas score well above them. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Pine Hills ranks 1,992nd of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and a weak job market ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Pine Hills
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 Pine Hills
The parts of Pine Hills, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Robinson Hills & Country Run
Westland Terrace
Sparling Hills & Bel-Air-Orlando
Forest Park, Silver Pines Pointe & Sylvan Hylands
Rosemont North & Signal Hill
Lonesome Pines & Orange Heights-Pine Hills
San Jose Shores, Country Club Heights & Evans Village
Silver Star Terrace
Scores across Pine Hills run from about the 5th to the 54th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Pine Hills' strengths and weaknesses
Where Pine Hills ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 96% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than 89% of cities
- TransitBetter than 88% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 82% of cities
Where Pine Hills ranks low
- Local economyBetter than only 1% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 4% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 5% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 5% of cities
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 6% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Pine Hills
A household needs to earn about $65,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pine Hills home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $59,842; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Pine Hills' effective rate of 0.56%, 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 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Pine Hills
Pine Hills runs younger than the country, 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 Pine Hills.
Who works in Pine Hills, and how
Work in Pine Hills centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Pine Hills
Pine Hills has more parkland per resident than 82% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Pine Hills and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Pine Hills, month by month
Pine Hills sees roughly 131 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 74, with lows near 50. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 74° | 61° | 50° |
| April | 86° | 74° | 64° |
| July | 94° | 83° | 76° |
| October | 87° | 77° | 69° |
Flying in and out of Pine Hills
Orlando International sits about 14 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 28.1 million passengers in 2025, with 223 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Pine Hills
Schools across Pine Hills average a C−, better than 16% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Prairie Lake ElementaryB · 45% proficient
- Lake Silver ElementaryC+ · 38% proficient
- William Frangus ElementaryC · 35% proficient
Top middle schools
- College Park MiddleC · 34% proficient
- Robinswood MiddleD+ · 27% proficient
- Meadowbrook MiddleD+ · 24% proficient
Top high schools
- Edgewater HighC+ · 40% proficient
- Ocoee HighC · 33% proficient
- Maynard Evans HighC− · 29% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pine Hills school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pine Hills 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 Pine Hills against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Pine Hills suits
Common questions about living in Pine Hills
Is Pine Hills a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pine Hills ranks 1,992nd of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and low property taxes, and lowest on a weak job market 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 Pine Hills expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $255,399. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $59,842 median income, cost of living beats 9% of cities.
Is Pine Hills safe?
Pine Hills is safer than 8% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $339 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Pine Hills?
July highs average about 94 degrees, and January highs near 74 with lows near 50. That works out to about 131 pleasant days a year, more than 75% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Pine Hills?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Robinson Hills & Country Run, Westland Terrace, and Sparling Hills & Bel-Air-Orlando. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Pine Hills with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pine Hills. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pine Hills 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.
Pine Hills detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pine Hills: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pine Hills: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pine Hills: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pine Hills: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pine Hills 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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