Best PlacesVilla Carolina, Carolina, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Villa Carolina, Carolina, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Villa Carolina, Carolina is unranked among neighborhoods under the default weighting. It scores highest on low property taxes by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.


The best neighborhoods in Villa Carolina, Carolina

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Villa Carolina, Carolina area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Villa Carolina, Carolina's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 1%Affordable childcare
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Villa Carolina, Carolina with other neighborhoods.

Where Villa Carolina, Carolina ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Cheap childcare$413 a month, better than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 81% of neighborhoods
  • Air qualityBetter than 73% of neighborhoods
  • QuietBetter than 70% of neighborhoods

Where Villa Carolina, Carolina ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 0 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Villa Carolina, Carolina

A household needs to earn about $37,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Villa Carolina, Carolina home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $37,089, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$37,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$862
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $157,033 home
Median rent
$605
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$801
Property tax$9
Homeowners insurance$52

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 Villa Carolina, Carolina's effective rate of 0.07%, 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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Villa Carolina, Carolina

Villa Carolina, Carolina runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
50
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
31%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1813%
18 to 3419%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6418%
65 and older31%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Villa Carolina, Carolina.


Who works in Villa Carolina, Carolina, and how

Work in Villa Carolina, Carolina centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate.

Work from home
10%
below the national average
Unemployment
7.5%
above the national average

Largest industries

Health care & social15%
Retail trade12%
Public administration10%
Education10%
Hospitality & food9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 86%
  • Work from home 10%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Villa Carolina, Carolina

The coast is about 7 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Villa Carolina, Carolina, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
43
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 21.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 45% of neighborhoods
Coffee shops
6
about 3.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 63% of neighborhoods
To the coast
7 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Villa Carolina, Carolina, month by month

Villa Carolina, Carolina sees roughly 0 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 85, with lows near 73. No month averages between 55 and 75 degrees.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January85°78°73°
April87°79°74°
July90°83°78°
October90°83°78°

Flying in and out of Villa Carolina, Carolina

Luis Munoz Marin International sits about 4 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 6.7 million passengers in 2025, with 88 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
SJU
Luis Munoz Marin International, about 4 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
38th-busiest in the US, 88 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

Villa Carolina, Carolina 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 Villa Carolina, Carolina against neighborhoods nationally.


Who Villa Carolina, Carolina suits

Families

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Remote workers

10% already work from home.

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Retirees

It is quieter than 70%.

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Common questions about living in Villa Carolina, Carolina

Is Villa Carolina, Carolina a good place to live?

It scores highest on low property taxes, affordable childcare, and a stable housing market, and lowest on the weather and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Villa Carolina, Carolina expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $157,033. Set against a $37,089 median income, cost of living beats 50% of neighborhoods.

Is Villa Carolina, Carolina safe?

Villa Carolina, Carolina is safer than 17% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $737 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Villa Carolina, Carolina?

July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 85 with lows near 73. That works out to about 0 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of neighborhoods.



Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Villa Carolina, Carolina. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Villa Carolina, Carolina 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.

Villa Carolina, Carolina detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Villa Carolina, Carolina: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Villa Carolina, Carolina: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Villa Carolina, Carolina: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Villa Carolina, Carolina: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Villa Carolina, Carolina detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.