Best PlacesRiviera Beach, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Riviera 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.
Riviera Beach ranks 1,987th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Riviera 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 Riviera Beach
The parts of Riviera Beach, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Woodbine
Yacht Harbor Estates
Thousand Oaks & Dunbar Terrace
Northview
Monroe Heights & Lewis Terminals
North County
Scores across Riviera Beach run from about the 2nd to the 66th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Riviera Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Where Riviera Beach ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 96% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 89% of cities
- TransitBetter than 89% of cities
- BikingBetter than 89% of cities
Where Riviera Beach ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 3% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 4% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 4% of cities
- Low vacancyBetter than only 4% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Riviera Beach
A household needs to earn about $94,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Riviera Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $71,443, 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 Riviera 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 Riviera Beach
Riviera Beach's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Riviera Beach.
Who works in Riviera Beach, and how
Work in Riviera Beach centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Riviera Beach
Riviera Beach has more restaurants and bars per resident than 69% of cities and more parkland per resident than 80% of cities. The coast is about 6 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Riviera Beach and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Riviera Beach, month by month
Riviera Beach sees roughly 89 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 78, with lows near 57. The comfortable stretch runs November through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 78° | 67° | 57° |
| April | 85° | 76° | 68° |
| July | 92° | 84° | 77° |
| October | 87° | 80° | 73° |
Flying in and out of Riviera Beach
Palm Beach International sits about 7 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.3 million passengers in 2025, with 67 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Riviera Beach
Schools across Riviera Beach average a C+, better than 38% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Potentials Charter SchoolA+ · 75% proficient
- Washington Elementary Magnet SchoolC · 32% proficient
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top middle schools
- Watson B. Duncan Middle SchoolA− · 57% proficient
- Conniston Middle SchoolC+ · 35% proficient
- John F. Kennedy Middle SchoolD+ · 27% proficient
Top high schools
- Suncoast Community High SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
- Seagull AcademyA · 75% proficient
- William T. Dwyer High SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Riviera Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Riviera 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 Riviera Beach against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Riviera Beach suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 14% already work from home.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Riviera Beach
Is Riviera Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Riviera Beach ranks 1,987th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and clean air, and lowest on an overheated housing 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 Riviera Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $356,115. The overall cost of living runs about 20% above the national average. Set against a $71,443 median income, cost of living beats 4% of cities.
Is Riviera Beach safe?
Riviera Beach is safer than 7% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $350 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Riviera Beach?
July highs average about 92 degrees, and January highs near 78 with lows near 57. That works out to about 89 pleasant days a year, more than 53% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Riviera Beach?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Woodbine, Yacht Harbor Estates, and Thousand Oaks & Dunbar Terrace. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Riviera Beach with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Riviera Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Riviera 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.
Riviera Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Riviera Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Riviera Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Riviera Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Riviera Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Riviera 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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