Best Places93015, CA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 93015, 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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93015 ranks 14,601st of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in 93015

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 93015 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

93015's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%The weather
Top 5%Cell coverage
Top 5%Few empty homes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 93015 with other zip codes.

Where 93015 ranks high

  • Nice weatherabout 263 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of zip codes
  • Cell coverageBetter than 96% of zip codes
  • Low vacancyBetter than 95% of zip codes
  • Big-city accessBetter than 93% of zip codes
  • BikingBetter than 93% of zip codes

Where 93015 ranks low

  • Cheap childcare$1,601 a month, better than only 4% of zip codes
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 4% of zip codes
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 5% of zip codes
  • Educational attainmentBetter than only 7% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 10% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 93015

A household needs to earn about $163,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 93015 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $99,677, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$163,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$3,802
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $628,101 home
Median rent
$1,895
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,203
Property tax$390
Homeowners insurance$209

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 93015's effective rate of 0.75%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. 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 93015

93015 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
15%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.4
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1827%
18 to 3422%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6417%
65 and older15%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 93015.


Who works in 93015, and how

Work in 93015 centers on health care & social and agriculture & forestry. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
12%
below the national average
Unemployment
2.7%
below the national average
Job growth
−0.6%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social14%
Agriculture & forestry10%
Retail trade9%
Education8%
Admin & support services8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 84%
  • Work from home 12%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in 93015

The coast is about 26 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across 93015, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
52
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 27.9 per 10,000 residents, more than 41% of zip codes
To the coast
26 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 93015, month by month

93015 sees roughly 263 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 80 degrees. January highs sit near 69, with lows near 44. Every month averages in that range.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January69°56°44°
April73°60°49°
July80°69°61°
October80°66°54°

Flying in and out of 93015

Bob Hope sits about 35 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.1 million passengers in 2025, with 54 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
BUR
Bob Hope, about 35 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
57th-busiest in the US, 54 nonstop destinations
Average drive
49 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 93015

Schools across 93015 average a D+, better than 22% of zip codes.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 93015 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


93015 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 93015 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 93015

Is 93015 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 93015 ranks 14,601st of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on the weather, cell coverage, and few empty homes, and lowest on childcare costs and civic engagement. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 93015 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $628,101. The overall cost of living runs about 18% above the national average. Set against a $99,677 median income, cost of living beats 45% of zip codes.

Is 93015 safe?

93015 is safer than 33% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $416 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 93015. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 93015 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.

93015 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 93015: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 93015: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 93015: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 93015: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

93015 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.