Best PlacesPoint Clear, AL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Point Clear, 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.
Point Clear ranks 7,531st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Point Clear
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.
Point Clear's strengths and weaknesses
Where Point Clear ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 97% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 95% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 94% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 91% of towns
Where Point Clear ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 11% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 18% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than only 36% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Point Clear
A household needs to earn about $149,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Point Clear home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $76,864, 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 Point Clear's effective rate of 0.31%, 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 Point Clear
Point Clear 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 Point Clear.
Who works in Point Clear, and how
Work in Point Clear centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 21%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Point Clear
The coast is about 2 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Point Clear, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Point Clear, month by month
Point Clear sees roughly 119 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 60, with lows near 42. The comfortable stretch runs February through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60° | 50° | 42° |
| April | 75° | 66° | 57° |
| July | 87° | 80° | 73° |
| October | 79° | 68° | 60° |
Flying in and out of Point Clear
The nearest airport, Mobile International, is about 13 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International, about 144 miles away.
The best schools in and around Point Clear
Schools across Point Clear average an A−, better than 82% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Fairhope West ElementaryA · 64% proficient
- Fairhope East ElementaryA · 62% proficient
- J Larry Newton SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
Top middle schools
- Fairhope Middle SchoolA · 66% proficient
Top high schools
- Fairhope High SchoolB · 46% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Point Clear school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Point Clear 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 Point Clear against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Point Clear
Is Point Clear a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Point Clear ranks 7,531st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, cell coverage, and a strong job market, and lowest on disaster risk and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Point Clear expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $609,548. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $76,864 median income, cost of living beats 73% of towns.
Is Point Clear safe?
Yes, Point Clear is safer than 86% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $179 per resident a year.
Compare Point Clear with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Point Clear. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Point Clear 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.
Point Clear detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Point Clear: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Point Clear: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Point Clear: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Point Clear: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Point Clear 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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