Best PlacesCulver City, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Culver City, 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.
Culver City ranks 610th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Culver City
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 Culver City
The parts of Culver City, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Park West-Los Angeles
Lucerne-Higuera
Jefferson & Blanco-Culver Crest
Palms, Washington Culver & Park East
Clarkdale
Fox Hills
Playa Vista
Scores across Culver City run from about the 25th to the 98th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Culver City's strengths and weaknesses
Where Culver City ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 339 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of cities
- TransitBetter than 99% of cities
- BikingBetter than 98% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than 97% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 97% of cities
Where Culver City ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 1% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 4% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than only 4% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 11% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 14% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Culver City
A household needs to earn about $334,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Culver City home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $124,817, 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 Culver City's effective rate of 0.66%, 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 Culver City
Culver City's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Culver City.
Who works in Culver City, and how
Work in Culver City centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 59%
- Work from home 31%
- Transit, walk, or bike 10%
Life in Culver City
Culver City has more restaurants and bars per resident than 94% of cities and more parkland per resident than 86% of cities. The coast is about 5 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Culver City and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Culver City, month by month
Culver City sees roughly 339 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 76 degrees. January highs sit near 68, with lows near 47. Every month averages in that range.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 68° | 57° | 47° |
| April | 69° | 60° | 53° |
| July | 76° | 68° | 63° |
| October | 78° | 67° | 58° |
Flying in and out of Culver City
Los Angeles International sits about 4 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 36.7 million passengers in 2025, with 247 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Culver City
Schools across Culver City average a B, better than 61% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Farragut ElementaryA · 69% proficient
- El Marino ElementaryA · 64% proficient
- Linwood E. Howe ElementaryA− · 58% proficient
Top middle schools
- Beverly Vista MiddleA · 59% proficient
- Culver City MiddleA · 59% proficient
Top high schools
- Culver City HighA− · 59% proficient
- Early College Academy-la Trade Tech CollegeB · 50% proficient
- Venice Senior HighB · 49% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Culver City school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Culver City 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 Culver City against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Culver City suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 31% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Culver City
Is Culver City a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Culver City ranks 610th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on the weather, transit, and biking, and lowest on noise and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Culver City expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,302,447. The overall cost of living runs about 58% above the national average. Set against a $124,817 median income, cost of living beats 31% of cities.
Is Culver City safe?
Culver City is safer than 4% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $611 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Culver City?
July highs average about 76 degrees, and January highs near 68 with lows near 47. That works out to about 339 pleasant days a year, more than 100% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Culver City?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Park West-Los Angeles, Lucerne-Higuera, and Jefferson & Blanco-Culver Crest. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Culver City with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Culver City. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Culver City 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.
Culver City detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Culver City: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Culver City: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Culver City: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Culver City: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Culver City 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
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