Best PlacesBradbury, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Bradbury, 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.
Bradbury ranks 8,006th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Bradbury
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.
Bradbury's strengths and weaknesses
Where Bradbury ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 282 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 97% of towns
- BikingBetter than 97% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 95% of towns
Where Bradbury ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Bradbury
A household needs to earn about $483,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bradbury home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $130,307, 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 Bradbury's effective rate of 0.71%, 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.
Who lives in Bradbury
Bradbury runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bradbury.
Who works in Bradbury, and how
Work in Bradbury centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 71%
- Work from home 22%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Bradbury
The coast is about 29 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Bradbury, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Bradbury, month by month
Bradbury sees roughly 282 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 68, with lows near 48. The comfortable stretch runs October through May.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 68° | 60° | 48° |
| April | 76° | 68° | 57° |
| July | 89° | 81° | 69° |
| October | 83° | 74° | 60° |
Flying in and out of Bradbury
Ontario International sits about 22 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.5 million passengers in 2025, with 62 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Bradbury
Schools across Bradbury average a B−, better than 56% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Royal Oaks Steam Academy (k-8)B− · 44% proficient
- Bradoaks Elementary Science AcademyC · 33% proficient
Top middle schools
- Clifton MiddleB+ · 49% proficient
Top high schools
- Monrovia HighB · 47% proficient
- Duarte HighC+ · 35% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Bradbury school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Bradbury 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 Bradbury against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Bradbury
Is Bradbury a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bradbury ranks 8,006th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, big-city access, and transit, and lowest on air quality and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Bradbury expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,869,827. The overall cost of living runs about 64% above the national average. Set against a $130,307 median income, cost of living beats 58% of towns.
Is Bradbury safe?
Bradbury is safer than 44% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $319 per resident a year.
Compare Bradbury with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bradbury. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bradbury 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.
Bradbury detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Bradbury: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Bradbury: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Bradbury: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Bradbury: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Bradbury 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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