Best PlacesWyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods, FL Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods, 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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Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods ranks 1,603rd of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a strong job market by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods' strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%A strong job market
Top 5%Low crime
Top 5%State infrastructure
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods with other neighborhoods.

Where Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods ranks high

  • Local economyBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Crime safetyBetter than 97% of neighborhoods
  • State infrastructureBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of neighborhoods
  • Health outlookBetter than 92% of neighborhoods

Where Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods ranks low

  • Short commute43.0 minutes each way, better than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • TransitBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • WalkabilityBetter than only 7% of neighborhoods
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 10% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods

A household needs to earn about $121,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $104,380, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$121,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,835
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $455,678 home
Median rent
$2,311
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$2,323
Property tax$360
Homeowners insurance$152

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 Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods' effective rate of 0.95%, 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 7 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 Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods

Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
35
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
5%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.5
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1834%
18 to 3420%
35 to 4921%
50 to 6420%
65 and older5%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods.


Who works in Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods, and how

Work in Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods centers on professional & technical and admin & support services. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
10%
below the national average
Unemployment
0.0%
below the national average
Job growth
+42.2%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical29%
Admin & support services20%
Hospitality & food10%
Health care & social8%
Arts & entertainment7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 88%
  • Work from home 10%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods

The coast is about 48 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods, which the map shows.

To the coast
48 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods, month by month

Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods sees roughly 139 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.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January74°61°50°
April86°73°62°
July94°82°74°
October87°76°68°

Flying in and out of Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods

Orlando International sits about 5 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 28.1 million passengers in 2025, with 223 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
MCO
Orlando International, about 5 miles
Airport size
Large hub
7th-busiest in the US, 223 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods

Schools across Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods average a B, better than 74% of neighborhoods.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods 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 Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods

Is Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods ranks 1,603rd of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on a strong job market, low crime, and state infrastructure, and lowest on long commutes and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $455,678. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $104,380 median income, cost of living beats 84% of neighborhoods.

Is Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods safe?

Yes, Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods is safer than 97% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $117 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods 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.

Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Wyndham Lakes Estates, Meadow Woods 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.