Best PlacesPompano Beach, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pompano Beach, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Distance to the water drives a lot of the difference between one part and the next. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Pompano Beach ranks 417th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 5 minutes away. Its strengths are state infrastructure and low taxes. The cost shows up in empty homes, summer heat, and car insurance costs.
The best neighborhoods in Pompano 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.
The best areas in Pompano Beach
The parts of Pompano Beach, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the city.
Cypress Plaza
More adults hold degrees, more residents vote, and incomes run higher.
Bay Colony
Fewer households have young kids and more homes sit empty.
Northeastern Pompano Beach
Heat risk is lower and it is quieter.
Fairview & Arvida Pompano Park
Streets are more car-dependent.
Northern Pompano Beach
Health care is harder to reach and local pay stretches less far.
Central Pompano Beach
Health outcomes score lower and prices have run up more.
Golden Farms
Scores close to Central Pompano Beach, except that biking is worse here.
Blue Lake-Miami & Morningstar Lake
Tree cover is thicker, though crime runs higher.
Scores across Pompano Beach run from about the 2nd to the 72nd percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Pompano Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Pompano Beach ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. State infrastructure, low taxes, and cell coverage carry most of that.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: empty homes, summer heat, and car insurance costs all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Pompano Beach ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 95% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 89% of cities
- BikingBetter than 89% of cities
- TransitBetter than 84% of cities
Where Pompano Beach ranks low
- Low vacancyBetter than only 1% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 2% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 4% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Pompano Beach
A household needs to earn about $99,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pompano Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $69,505, 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 Pompano Beach's effective rate of 0.87%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Pompano Beach
Pompano Beach runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Pompano Beach.
Who works in Pompano Beach, and how
Work in Pompano Beach centers on retail trade and construction. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Pompano Beach
Pompano Beach has more restaurants and bars per resident than 84% of cities and more parkland per resident than 82% of cities. The coast is about 5 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Pompano Beach and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Pompano Beach, month by month
Pompano Beach sees roughly 79 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 78, with lows near 60. The comfortable stretch runs December through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 78° | 69° | 60° |
| April | 85° | 77° | 70° |
| July | 91° | 85° | 78° |
| October | 87° | 80° | 74° |
Flying in and out of Pompano Beach
The nearest airport, Fort Lauderdale Exec, is about 4 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International, about 12 miles away.
The best schools in and around Pompano Beach
Schools across Pompano Beach average a B−, better than 62% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Waters Edge Elementary SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
- Gator Run Elementary SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
- Heron Heights Elementary SchoolA+ · 72% proficient
Top middle schools
- Falcon Cove Middle SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
- Loggers' Run Community Middle SchoolA · 66% proficient
- Lyons Creek Middle SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
Top high schools
- Pompano Beach High SchoolA · 79% proficient
- Cypress Bay High SchoolA · 74% proficient
- West Boca Raton High SchoolA · 69% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pompano Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pompano 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 Pompano Beach against the other 444 cities.
Who Pompano Beach suits
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Pompano Beach
Is Pompano Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pompano Beach ranks 417th of 445 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and cell coverage, and lowest on empty homes and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Pompano Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $375,233. The overall cost of living runs about 5% above the national average. Set against a $69,505 median income, cost of living beats 10% of cities.
Is Pompano Beach safe?
Pompano Beach is safer than 11% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $390 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Pompano Beach?
July highs average about 91 degrees, and January highs near 78 with lows near 60. That works out to about 79 pleasant days a year, more than 32% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Pompano Beach?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Cypress Plaza, Bay Colony, and Northeastern Pompano Beach. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Pompano Beach good for families?
Schools beat 62% of cities, crime safety beats 11%, and childcare runs $969 a month.
Is Pompano Beach good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 10% of cities, though advertised internet speeds beat only 57% of cities. About 14% of workers already work from home.
Compare Pompano Beach with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pompano Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pompano 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.
Pompano Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pompano Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pompano Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pompano Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pompano Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pompano 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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