Best PlacesEastlake Trails, Chula Vista, CA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista ranks 873rd of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low crime by a wide margin, and transit ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%Low crime
Top 5%Population health
Top 5%Fast internet
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista with other neighborhoods.

Where Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista ranks high

  • Crime safetyBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Health outlookBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Internet speedBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Local economyBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Nice weatherabout 265 pleasant days a year, better than 95% of neighborhoods

Where Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista ranks low

  • TransitBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • Air qualityBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
  • WalkabilityBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
  • Short commute34.5 minutes each way, better than only 7% of neighborhoods
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 14% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista

A household needs to earn about $217,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $143,924, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$217,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$5,065
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $797,939 home
Median rent
$2,824
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$4,068
Property tax$731
Homeowners insurance$266

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 Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista's effective rate of 1.10%, 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 Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista

Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
38
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
9%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.1
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1824%
18 to 3423%
35 to 4922%
50 to 6422%
65 and older9%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista.


Who works in Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista, and how

Work in Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista centers on professional & technical and public administration. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
18%
above the national average
Unemployment
1.4%
below the national average
Job growth
+5.0%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical15%
Public administration13%
Health care & social13%
Retail trade12%
Construction8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 77%
  • Work from home 18%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista

The coast is about 19 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista, which the map shows.

To the coast
19 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista, month by month

Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista sees roughly 265 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 69, with lows near 43. 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
January69°55°43°
April74°60°50°
July81°70°62°
October81°67°55°

Flying in and out of Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista

San Diego International sits about 15 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 15 miles
Airport size
Large hub
24th-busiest in the US, 121 nonstop destinations
Average drive
22 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista

Schools across Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista average a B+, better than 78% of neighborhoods.

Top middle schools

Top high schools

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


Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista 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 Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista

Is Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista ranks 873rd of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on low crime, population health, and fast internet, and lowest on transit and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $797,939. The overall cost of living runs about 25% above the national average. Set against a $143,924 median income, cost of living beats 80% of neighborhoods.

Is Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista safe?

Yes, Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista is safer than 96% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $190 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 Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista 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.

Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Eastlake Trails, Chula Vista 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.