Best PlacesCrossroads, Highland, CA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Crossroads, Highland, 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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Crossroads, Highland ranks 4,592nd of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. Air quality pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on the weather.

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The best neighborhoods in Crossroads, Highland

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Crossroads, Highland area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Crossroads, Highland's strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Crossroads, Highland with other neighborhoods.

Where Crossroads, Highland ranks high

  • Nice weatherabout 222 pleasant days a year, better than 89% of neighborhoods
  • Local economyBetter than 88% of neighborhoods
  • Low vacancyBetter than 81% of neighborhoods
  • Big-city accessBetter than 80% of neighborhoods
  • Cell coverageBetter than 76% of neighborhoods

Where Crossroads, Highland ranks low

  • Air qualityBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Internet speedBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 14% of neighborhoods
  • QuietBetter than only 18% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Crossroads, Highland

A household needs to earn about $111,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Crossroads, Highland home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $74,659, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$111,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,584
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $427,713 home
Median rent
$1,940
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$2,181
Property tax$261
Homeowners insurance$143

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 Crossroads, Highland's effective rate of 0.73%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. 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 Crossroads, Highland

Crossroads, Highland's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
39
about the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
19%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.2
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1826%
18 to 3418%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6418%
65 and older19%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Crossroads, Highland.


Who works in Crossroads, Highland, and how

Work in Crossroads, Highland centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
4%
below the national average
Unemployment
0.9%
below the national average
Job growth
−0.3%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade19%
Health care & social14%
Education11%
Hospitality & food11%
Transportation & warehousing9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 92%
  • Work from home 4%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Crossroads, Highland

Crossroads, Highland has more restaurants and bars per resident than 70% of neighborhoods. That concentrates in some parts of Crossroads, Highland and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
49
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 63.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 70% of neighborhoods
Coffee shops
7
about 9.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 77% of neighborhoods

What the weather is like in Crossroads, Highland, month by month

Crossroads, Highland sees roughly 222 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 99 degrees. January highs sit near 67, with lows near 44. The comfortable stretch runs February through June and October through December.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January67°54°44°
April79°64°52°
July99°82°68°
October86°70°57°

Flying in and out of Crossroads, Highland

The nearest airport, San Bernardino International, is about 3 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Ontario International, about 23 miles away.

Nearest airport
SBD
San Bernardino International, about 3 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
310th-busiest in the US, 4 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Crossroads, Highland

Schools across Crossroads, Highland average a C+, better than 57% of neighborhoods.

Top middle schools

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


Crossroads, Highland 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 Crossroads, Highland against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Crossroads, Highland

Is Crossroads, Highland a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Crossroads, Highland ranks 4,592nd of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on the weather, a strong job market, and few empty homes, and lowest on air quality and internet speeds. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Crossroads, Highland expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $427,713. The overall cost of living runs about 12% above the national average. Set against a $74,659 median income, cost of living beats 28% of neighborhoods.

Is Crossroads, Highland safe?

Crossroads, Highland is safer than 54% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $461 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 Crossroads, Highland. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Crossroads, Highland 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.

Crossroads, Highland detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Crossroads, Highland 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.