Best PlacesBurbank, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Burbank, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Distance to the water drives a lot of the difference between one part and the next. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Burbank ranks 152nd of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 20 minutes away. Its strengths are biking and big-city access. The cost shows up in air quality, the cost of living against local pay, and noise.
The best neighborhoods in Burbank
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 Burbank
The parts of Burbank, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the city.
Northeastern Burbank
It is quieter, local pay stretches further, and disaster risk is lower.
Southern Burbank
More homes sit empty and streets are more car-dependent.
Southeastern Burbank
More adults hold degrees.
Grandview
Incomes run lower and fewer residents vote.
Scores across Burbank run from about the 21st to the 95th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Burbank's strengths and weaknesses
Burbank lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Biking, big-city access, and walkability carry most of that.
The one real hole is air quality, near the bottom of the country. The cost of living against local pay and noise also cost it ground. That varies block to block rather than evenly, and the map below shows where.
Where Burbank ranks high
- BikingBetter than 96% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 95% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than 94% of cities
- Nice weatherabout 244 pleasant days a year, better than 93% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than 86% of cities
Where Burbank ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 4% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 12% of cities
- QuietBetter than only 14% of cities
- Local economyBetter than only 15% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Burbank
A household needs to earn about $264,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Burbank home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $107,461, 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 Burbank's effective rate of 0.58%, 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 Burbank
Burbank's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Burbank.
Who works in Burbank, and how
Work in Burbank centers on information and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 64%
- Work from home 30%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Burbank
Burbank has more restaurants and bars per resident than 83% of cities and more parkland per resident than 76% of cities. The coast is about 20 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Burbank and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Burbank, month by month
Burbank sees roughly 244 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 69, with lows near 44. The comfortable stretch runs September through July.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 69° | 56° | 44° |
| April | 77° | 63° | 53° |
| July | 90° | 75° | 65° |
| October | 84° | 69° | 57° |
Flying in and out of Burbank
Bob Hope sits about 2 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.1 million passengers in 2025, with 54 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Burbank
Schools across Burbank average a B+, better than 80% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Theodore Roosevelt ElementaryA · 63% proficient
- Thomas Jefferson ElementaryA− · 59% proficient
- Thomas Edison ElementaryB+ · 55% proficient
Top high schools
- Burbank HighA · 68% proficient
- Burroughs HighA− · 62% proficient
- Early College Academy-la Trade Tech CollegeB · 50% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Burbank school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Burbank 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 Burbank against the other 444 cities.
Who Burbank suits
Retirees
The weather beats 93% of cities and health care access beats 63%.
Common questions about living in Burbank
Is Burbank a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Burbank ranks 152nd of 445 cities. It scores highest on biking, big-city access, and walkability, and lowest on air quality and the cost of living against local pay. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Burbank expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,042,945. The overall cost of living runs about 54% above the national average. Set against a $107,461 median income, cost of living beats 12% of cities.
Is Burbank safe?
Burbank is safer than 32% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $458 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Burbank?
July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 69 with lows near 44. That works out to about 244 pleasant days a year, more than 93% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Burbank?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Northeastern Burbank, Southern Burbank, and Southeastern Burbank. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Burbank good for families?
Schools beat 80% of cities, crime safety beats 32%, and childcare runs $1,130 a month.
Is Burbank good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 12% of cities, though advertised internet speeds beat only 30% of cities. About 30% of workers already work from home.
Compare Burbank with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Burbank. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Burbank 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.
Burbank detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Burbank: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Burbank: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Burbank: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Burbank: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Burbank 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.