Best PlacesSeaview Beach, CT Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Seaview Beach, 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.
Seaview Beach ranks 1,857th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Seaview 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.
Seaview Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Where Seaview Beach ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 98% of towns
- BikingBetter than 98% of towns
Where Seaview Beach ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,583 a month, better than only 2% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 6% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 7% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Seaview Beach
A household needs to earn about $206,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Seaview Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $144,792, 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 Seaview Beach's effective rate of 1.35%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Seaview Beach
Seaview Beach 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 Seaview Beach.
Who works in Seaview Beach, and how
Work in Seaview Beach centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 54%
- Work from home 35%
- Transit, walk, or bike 11%
Life in Seaview Beach
The coast is about 0 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Seaview Beach, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Seaview Beach, month by month
Seaview Beach sees roughly 80 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 32° | 26° |
| April | 59° | 50° | 42° |
| July | 85° | 75° | 67° |
| October | 66° | 57° | 49° |
Flying in and out of Seaview Beach
The nearest airport, Tweed/New Haven, is about 18 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Bradley International, about 47 miles away.
The best schools in and around Seaview Beach
Schools across Seaview Beach average an A, better than 94% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Lewin G. Joel Jr. SchoolB · 50% proficient
Top middle schools
- Walter C. Polson Middle SchoolA+ · 71% proficient
- Jared Eliot SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
Top high schools
- Daniel Hand High SchoolA · 77% proficient
- The Morgan SchoolB+ · 57% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Seaview Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Seaview 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 Seaview Beach against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Seaview Beach
Is Seaview Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Seaview Beach ranks 1,857th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, health care access, and civic engagement, and lowest on childcare costs and state finances. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Seaview Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $733,000. The overall cost of living runs about 22% above the national average. Set against a $144,792 median income, cost of living beats 98% of towns.
Is Seaview Beach safe?
Seaview Beach is safer than 48% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $229 per resident a year.
Compare Seaview Beach with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Seaview Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Seaview 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.
Seaview Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Seaview Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Seaview Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Seaview Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Seaview Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Seaview 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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