Best PlacesDate City, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Date City, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Date City ranks 40,114th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Date 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.
Date City's strengths and weaknesses
Where Date City ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 191 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 85% of towns
- Short commute20.8 minutes each way, better than 85% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 76% of towns
- Household income$88,154 median, better than 75% of towns
Where Date City ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 2% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 3% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Date City
A household needs to earn about $95,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Date City home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $88,154; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Date City's effective rate of 1.19%, 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 Date City
Date City runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Date City.
Who works in Date City, and how
Work in Date City centers on agriculture & forestry and hospitality & food. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 7%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Date City
Date City has more restaurants and bars per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Date City and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Date City, month by month
Date City sees roughly 191 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 111 degrees. January highs sit near 71, with lows near 41. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 71° | 55° | 41° |
| April | 91° | 73° | 56° |
| July | 111° | 95° | 80° |
| October | 93° | 76° | 60° |
Flying in and out of Date City
The nearest airport, Imperial County, is about 15 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is San Diego International, about 108 miles away.
The best schools in and around Date City
Schools across Date City average a D, better than 9% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Pine ElementaryD · 20% proficient
- Emmett S. Finley ElementaryD− · 15% proficient
- San Pasqual Valley ElementaryF · 5% proficient
Top middle schools
- Holtville MiddleF · 10% proficient
- San Pasqual MiddleF · 9% proficient
Top high schools
- Holtville HighC− · 30% proficient
- San Pasqual Valley HighD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Date City school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Date 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 Date City against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Date City
Is Date City a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Date City ranks 40,114th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, cell coverage, and short commutes, and lowest on summer heat and tree cover. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Date City expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $343,690. The overall cost of living runs about 5% above the national average. Set against a $88,154 median income, cost of living beats 50% of towns.
Is Date City safe?
Date City is safer than 19% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $571 per resident a year.
Compare Date City with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Date City. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Date 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.
Date City detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Date City: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Date City: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Date City: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Date City: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Date 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.