Best PlacesCedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton, OR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton ranks 961st of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on clean air by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Clean air
Top 10%Good schools
Top 10%Few empty homes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton with other neighborhoods.

Where Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton ranks high

  • Air qualityBetter than 97% of neighborhoods
  • School gradeA, better than 94% of neighborhoods
  • Low vacancyBetter than 93% of neighborhoods
  • State infrastructureBetter than 89% of neighborhoods
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 84% of neighborhoods

Where Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton ranks low

  • Cheap childcare$1,642 a month, better than only 15% of neighborhoods
  • QuietBetter than only 25% of neighborhoods
  • WalkabilityBetter than only 26% of neighborhoods
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 32% of neighborhoods
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 39% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton

A household needs to earn about $166,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $115,680, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$166,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$3,862
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $620,640 home
Median rent
$1,790
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,164
Property tax$491
Homeowners insurance$207

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 Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton's effective rate of 0.95%, 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 Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton

Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
41
about the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
18%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.3
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1818%
18 to 3423%
35 to 4921%
50 to 6420%
65 and older18%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton.


Who works in Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton, and how

Work in Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
18%
above the national average
Unemployment
6.9%
above the national average
Job growth
+8.5%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing19%
Health care & social15%
Retail trade12%
Professional & technical10%
Education7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 75%
  • Work from home 18%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 7%

Life in Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton

Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton has more parkland per resident than 79% of neighborhoods. That concentrates in some parts of Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
26
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 21.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 45% of neighborhoods
Parkland
74 acres
about 6.1 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 79% of neighborhoods

What the weather is like in Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton, month by month

Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton sees roughly 97 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January49°41°33°
April64°51°38°
July86°69°52°
October67°53°41°

Flying in and out of Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton

Portland International sits about 12 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 9.1 million passengers in 2025, with 117 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
PDX
Portland International, about 12 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
32nd-busiest in the US, 117 nonstop destinations
Average drive
16 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton

Schools across Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton average an A, better than 94% of neighborhoods.

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


Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton 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 Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton

Is Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton ranks 961st of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on clean air, good schools, and few empty homes, and lowest on childcare costs and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $620,640. The overall cost of living runs about 8% above the national average. Set against a $115,680 median income, cost of living beats 80% of neighborhoods.

Is Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton safe?

Yes, Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton is safer than 71% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $447 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 Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton 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.

Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Cedar Hills-Cedar Mill North, Beaverton 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.