Best PlacesSeabreeze, DE Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Seabreeze, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Seabreeze ranks 4,848th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Seabreeze
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.
Seabreeze's strengths and weaknesses
Where Seabreeze ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 98% of towns
Where Seabreeze ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 61 pleasant days a year, better than only 10% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 23% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Seabreeze
A household needs to earn about $208,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Seabreeze home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $116,016, 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 Seabreeze's effective rate of 0.23%, 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 Seabreeze
Seabreeze 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 Seabreeze.
Who works in Seabreeze, and how
Work in Seabreeze centers on hospitality & food and professional & technical. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 49%
- Work from home 44%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Seabreeze
The coast is about 1 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Seabreeze, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Seabreeze, month by month
Seabreeze sees roughly 61 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 28. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49° | 38° | 28° |
| April | 70° | 57° | 45° |
| July | 91° | 80° | 70° |
| October | 74° | 61° | 50° |
Flying in and out of Seabreeze
The nearest airport, Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional, is about 34 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Philadelphia International, about 82 miles away.
The best schools in and around Seabreeze
Schools across Seabreeze average a B, better than 65% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Rehoboth Elementary SchoolB · 47% proficient
Top middle schools
- Beacon Middle SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top high schools
- Cape Henlopen High SchoolB− · 43% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Seabreeze school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Seabreeze 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 Seabreeze against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Seabreeze
Is Seabreeze a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Seabreeze ranks 4,848th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, cell coverage, and civic engagement, and lowest on an overheated housing market and empty homes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Seabreeze expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $865,100. The overall cost of living runs about 10% above the national average. Set against a $116,016 median income, cost of living beats 89% of towns.
Is Seabreeze safe?
Yes, Seabreeze is safer than 62% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $245 per resident a year.
Compare Seabreeze with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Seabreeze. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Seabreeze 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.
Seabreeze detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Seabreeze: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Seabreeze: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Seabreeze: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Seabreeze: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Seabreeze 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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