Best PlacesChollas View, San Diego, CA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Chollas View, San Diego, 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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Chollas View, San Diego ranks 4,067th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Chollas View, San Diego

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Chollas View, San Diego area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Chollas View, San Diego's strengths and weaknesses

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 Chollas View, San Diego with other neighborhoods.

Where Chollas View, San Diego ranks high

  • Nice weatherabout 344 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of neighborhoods
  • TransitBetter than 83% of neighborhoods
  • Heat safetyBetter than 82% of neighborhoods
  • Cell coverageBetter than 77% of neighborhoods
  • Internet speedBetter than 74% of neighborhoods

Where Chollas View, San Diego ranks low

  • QuietBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Educational attainmentBetter than only 2% of neighborhoods
  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 8% of neighborhoods
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 12% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Chollas View, San Diego

A household needs to earn about $157,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Chollas View, San Diego home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $88,894, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$157,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$3,669
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $610,720 home
Median rent
$1,875
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,114
Property tax$352
Homeowners insurance$204

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 Chollas View, San Diego's effective rate of 0.69%, 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 Chollas View, San Diego

Chollas View, San Diego runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
33
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
11%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
4.0
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1822%
18 to 3434%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6415%
65 and older11%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Chollas View, San Diego.


Who works in Chollas View, San Diego, and how

Work in Chollas View, San Diego centers on health care & social and admin & support services. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
1%
below the national average
Unemployment
6.6%
above the national average
Job growth
+5.0%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social17%
Admin & support services15%
Hospitality & food14%
Professional & technical9%
Arts & entertainment9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 87%
  • Work from home 1%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 12%

Life in Chollas View, San Diego

Chollas View, San Diego has more restaurants and bars per resident than 78% of neighborhoods. The coast is about 7 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Chollas View, San Diego and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
36
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 90.2 per 10,000 residents, more than 78% of neighborhoods
To the coast
7 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Chollas View, San Diego, month by month

Chollas View, San Diego sees roughly 344 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 77 degrees. January highs sit near 68, with lows near 48. Every month averages in that range.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January68°58°48°
April71°63°56°
July77°70°66°
October78°68°60°

Flying in and out of Chollas View, San Diego

San Diego International sits about 6 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.7 million passengers in 2025, with 121 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
SAN
San Diego International, about 6 miles
Airport size
Large hub
24th-busiest in the US, 121 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Chollas View, San Diego

Schools across Chollas View, San Diego average a C+, better than 52% of neighborhoods.

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


Chollas View, San Diego 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 Chollas View, San Diego against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Chollas View, San Diego

Is Chollas View, San Diego a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Chollas View, San Diego ranks 4,067th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on the weather, transit, and heat safety, and lowest on noise and education levels. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Chollas View, San Diego expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $610,720. The overall cost of living runs about 38% above the national average. Set against a $88,894 median income, cost of living beats 22% of neighborhoods.

Is Chollas View, San Diego safe?

Chollas View, San Diego is safer than 23% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $683 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 Chollas View, San Diego. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Chollas View, San Diego 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.

Chollas View, San Diego detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Chollas View, San Diego 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.