Best PlacesWinter Garden, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Winter Garden, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Winter Garden ranks 513th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Winter Garden
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 Winter Garden
The parts of Winter Garden, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Stone Creek
Stoneybrook West
Winter Oaks
Deerfield Place
Village Grove & Daniels Landing
Bay Street Park & Courtlea Oaks
Winter Garden shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 8% of the country and others in the top 1%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Winter Garden's strengths and weaknesses
Where Winter Garden ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 96% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 86% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 85% of cities
- School gradeA−, better than 80% of cities
Where Winter Garden ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 11% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 12% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 14% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 25% of cities
- Low vacancyBetter than only 28% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Winter Garden
A household needs to earn about $125,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Winter Garden home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $117,515; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Winter Garden's effective rate of 0.76%, 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.
Who lives in Winter Garden
Winter Garden'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 Winter Garden.
Who works in Winter Garden, and how
Work in Winter Garden centers on professional & technical and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 73%
- Work from home 22%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Winter Garden
Winter Garden has more restaurants and bars per resident than 80% of cities and more parkland per resident than 89% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Winter Garden and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Winter Garden, month by month
Winter Garden sees roughly 131 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 74, with lows near 50. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 74° | 61° | 50° |
| April | 86° | 74° | 64° |
| July | 94° | 83° | 76° |
| October | 87° | 77° | 69° |
Flying in and out of Winter Garden
Orlando International sits about 19 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 28.1 million passengers in 2025, with 223 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Winter Garden
Schools across Winter Garden average an A−, better than 80% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Lake Whitney ElementaryA+ · 83% proficient
- Windermere ElementaryA+ · 81% proficient
- Keenes Crossing ElementaryA+ · 80% proficient
Top middle schools
- Bridgewater MiddleA · 67% proficient
- Sunridge MiddleA · 65% proficient
- East Ridge Middle SchoolA · 62% proficient
Top high schools
- East Ridge High SchoolB+ · 56% proficient
- Lake Minneola High SchoolB+ · 56% proficient
- West Orange HighB+ · 56% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Winter Garden school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Winter Garden 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 Winter Garden against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Winter Garden suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 85% of cities and 22% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Winter Garden
Is Winter Garden a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Winter Garden ranks 513th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and clean air, 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 Winter Garden expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $479,985. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $117,515 median income, cost of living beats 85% of cities.
Is Winter Garden safe?
Yes, Winter Garden is safer than 62% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $202 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Winter Garden?
July highs average about 94 degrees, and January highs near 74 with lows near 50. That works out to about 131 pleasant days a year, more than 76% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Winter Garden?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Stone Creek, Stoneybrook West, and Winter Oaks. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Winter Garden with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Winter Garden. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Winter Garden 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.
Winter Garden detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Winter Garden: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Winter Garden: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Winter Garden: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Winter Garden: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Winter Garden 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.