Best PlacesAlpine Heights, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Alpine Heights, 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.
Alpine Heights ranks 15,864th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Alpine Heights
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.
Alpine Heights' strengths and weaknesses
Where Alpine Heights ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 215 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 98% of towns
- Household income$126,480 median, better than 94% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 94% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 93% of towns
Where Alpine Heights ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,432 a month, better than only 5% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 7% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Alpine Heights
A household needs to earn about $224,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Alpine Heights home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $126,480, 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 Alpine Heights' effective rate of 0.69%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Alpine Heights
Alpine Heights runs younger than the country, 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 Alpine Heights.
Who works in Alpine Heights, and how
Work in Alpine Heights centers on retail trade and construction. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Alpine Heights
The coast is about 35 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Alpine Heights, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Alpine Heights, month by month
Alpine Heights sees roughly 215 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 68, with lows near 43. The comfortable stretch runs February through November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 68° | 54° | 43° |
| April | 74° | 61° | 52° |
| July | 87° | 74° | 65° |
| October | 82° | 67° | 56° |
Flying in and out of Alpine Heights
San Diego International sits about 23 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.7 million passengers in 2025, with 121 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Alpine Heights
Schools across Alpine Heights average a C+, better than 43% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Dehesa ElementaryD · 20% proficient
Top middle schools
- Oak Grove MiddleD+ · 27% proficient
Top high schools
- Valhalla HighB · 48% proficient
- Granite Hills HighC+ · 40% proficient
- Julian HighC+ · 37% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Alpine Heights school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Alpine Heights 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 Alpine Heights against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Alpine Heights
Is Alpine Heights a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Alpine Heights ranks 15,864th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, few empty homes, and high incomes, and lowest on disaster risk and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Alpine Heights expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $868,669. The overall cost of living runs about 30% above the national average. Set against a $126,480 median income, cost of living beats 68% of towns.
Is Alpine Heights safe?
Yes, Alpine Heights is safer than 88% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $205 per resident a year.
Compare Alpine Heights with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Alpine Heights. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Alpine Heights 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.
Alpine Heights detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Alpine Heights: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Alpine Heights: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Alpine Heights: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Alpine Heights: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Alpine Heights 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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