Best PlacesDeer Park, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Deer Park, 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.
Deer Park ranks 18,811th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on high incomes by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Deer Park
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.
Deer Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Deer Park ranks high
- Household income$130,672 median, better than 95% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 94% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 93% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 93% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 92% of towns
Where Deer Park ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,414 a month, better than only 5% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Deer Park
A household needs to earn about $331,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Deer Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $130,672, 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 Deer Park's effective rate of 0.49%, 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 Deer Park
Deer Park runs older than the country, 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 Deer Park.
Who works in Deer Park, and how
Work in Deer Park centers on manufacturing and agriculture & forestry. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 66%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 18%
Life in Deer Park
Deer Park has more restaurants and bars per resident than 96% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Deer Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Deer Park, month by month
Deer Park sees roughly 125 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 61, with lows near 38. The comfortable stretch runs April through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 61° | 48° | 38° |
| April | 72° | 56° | 42° |
| July | 86° | 65° | 51° |
| October | 81° | 60° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Deer Park
The nearest airport, Charles M Schulz/Sonoma County, is about 18 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Sacramento International, about 49 miles away.
The best schools in and around Deer Park
Schools across Deer Park average a B, better than 68% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Howell Mountain ElementaryB · 47% proficient
Top high schools
- Saint Helena HighB+ · 55% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Deer Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Deer Park 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 Deer Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Deer Park
Is Deer Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Deer Park ranks 18,811th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on high incomes, population health, and an educated workforce, and lowest on childcare costs and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Deer Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,322,400. The overall cost of living runs about 59% above the national average. Set against a $130,672 median income, cost of living beats 60% of towns.
Is Deer Park safe?
Deer Park is safer than 9% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $594 per resident a year.
Compare Deer Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Deer Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Deer Park 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.
Deer Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Deer Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Deer Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Deer Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Deer Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Deer Park 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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