Best PlacesChappo, CA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Chappo, 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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Chappo ranks 31,700th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Chappo

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Chappo 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.

Chappo's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Population health
Top 1%Transit
Top 1%The weather
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Chappo with other towns.

Where Chappo ranks high

  • Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
  • TransitBetter than 99% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 193 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
  • Short commute13.6 minutes each way, better than 98% of towns
  • Big-city accessBetter than 97% of towns

Where Chappo ranks low

  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 4% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$1,432 a month, better than only 5% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns

Who lives in Chappo

Chappo runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
22
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
0%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.1
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1828%
18 to 3461%
35 to 4910%
50 to 642%
65 and older0%

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


Who works in Chappo, and how

Work in Chappo centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
5%
below the national average
Unemployment
9.3%
above the national average
Job growth
+12.6%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade22%
Health care & social17%
Hospitality & food17%
Education12%
Professional & technical6%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 50%
  • Work from home 5%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 44%

Life in Chappo

The coast is about 17 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Chappo, which the map shows.

To the coast
17 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Chappo, month by month

Chappo sees roughly 193 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 69, with lows near 40. The comfortable stretch runs February through November.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January69°54°40°
April73°60°47°
July81°70°61°
October82°66°51°

Flying in and out of Chappo

The nearest airport, McClellan-Palomar, is about 12 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is San Diego International, about 40 miles away.

Nearest airport
CRQ
McClellan-Palomar, about 12 miles
Airport size
Nonprimary
Average drive
17 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Chappo

Schools across Chappo average a C, better than 41% of towns.

Top high schools

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


Chappo 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 Chappo against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Chappo

Is Chappo a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Chappo ranks 31,700th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, transit, and the weather, and lowest on an overheated housing market 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 Chappo safe?

Chappo is safer than 26% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $411 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Chappo?

July highs average about 81 degrees, and January highs near 69 with lows near 40. That works out to about 193 pleasant days a year, more than 99% of towns.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Chappo. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Chappo 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.

Chappo detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Chappo 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. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.