Best PlacesSunrise, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Sunrise, 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.
Sunrise ranks 336th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 16 minutes away. Its strengths are state infrastructure and low taxes. The cost shows up in car insurance costs, summer heat, and disaster risk.
The best neighborhoods in Sunrise
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 Sunrise
The parts of Sunrise, 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.
New River Estates & Savannah
More adults hold degrees, heat risk is lower, and health outcomes score higher.
Western Sunrise
Incomes run higher, though more homes sit empty.
Welleby
More households have young kids, though fewer residents vote.
Sunrise Golf Village East
Streets are more walkable and biking is better.
Eastern Sunrise
Homes cost less, though local pay stretches less far.
Scores across Sunrise run from about the 5th to the 79th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Sunrise's strengths and weaknesses
Sunrise ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. State infrastructure, low taxes, and biking carry most of that.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: car insurance costs, summer heat, and disaster risk all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Sunrise ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 95% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- BikingBetter than 83% of cities
- TransitBetter than 83% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 80% of cities
Where Sunrise ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 4% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 4% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 7% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 20% of cities
- Short commute29.5 minutes each way, better than only 22% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Sunrise
A household needs to earn about $96,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Sunrise home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $83,922, 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 Sunrise's effective rate of 0.88%, 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 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Sunrise
Sunrise runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Sunrise.
Who works in Sunrise, and how
Work in Sunrise centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 83%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Sunrise
Sunrise has more restaurants and bars per resident than 82% of cities and more parkland per resident than 80% of cities. The coast is about 16 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Sunrise and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Sunrise, month by month
Sunrise sees roughly 81 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 79, with lows near 59. The comfortable stretch runs November through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 79° | 68° | 59° |
| April | 86° | 77° | 69° |
| July | 92° | 84° | 77° |
| October | 88° | 80° | 73° |
Flying in and out of Sunrise
The nearest airport, Fort Lauderdale Exec, is about 7 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International, about 10 miles away.
The best schools in and around Sunrise
Schools across Sunrise average a B, better than 65% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Eagle Point Elementary SchoolA+ · 77% proficient
- Indian Trace Elementary SchoolA · 72% proficient
- Central Park Elementary SchoolA− · 60% proficient
Top middle schools
- Tequesta Trace Middle SchoolA · 63% proficient
- Indian Ridge Middle SchoolA− · 55% proficient
- Nova Middle SchoolB · 47% proficient
Top high schools
- Millennium 6-12 Collegiate AcademyB− · 44% proficient
- Piper High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Sunrise school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Sunrise 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 Sunrise against the other 444 cities.
Who Sunrise suits
Common questions about living in Sunrise
Is Sunrise a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Sunrise ranks 336th of 445 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and biking, and lowest on car insurance costs and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Sunrise expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $362,716. The overall cost of living runs about 1% below the national average. Set against a $83,922 median income, cost of living beats 37% of cities.
Is Sunrise safe?
Sunrise is safer than 38% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $288 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Sunrise?
July highs average about 92 degrees, and January highs near 79 with lows near 59. That works out to about 81 pleasant days a year, more than 33% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Sunrise?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are New River Estates & Savannah, Western Sunrise, and Welleby. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Sunrise good for families?
Schools beat 65% of cities, crime safety beats 38%, and childcare runs $969 a month.
Is Sunrise good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 37% of cities, though advertised internet speeds beat only 47% of cities. About 13% of workers already work from home.
Compare Sunrise with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Sunrise. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Sunrise 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.
Sunrise detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Sunrise: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Sunrise: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Sunrise: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Sunrise: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Sunrise 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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