Best PlacesFairview, OR Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Fairview, 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.
Fairview ranks 15,918th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Fairview
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.
Fairview's strengths and weaknesses
Where Fairview ranks high
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 97% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 94% of towns
Where Fairview ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,741 a month, better than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 2% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 11% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Fairview
A household needs to earn about $109,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Fairview home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $91,270, 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 Fairview's effective rate of 0.97%, 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 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Fairview
Fairview runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Fairview.
Who works in Fairview, and how
Work in Fairview centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 76%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Fairview
Fairview has more parkland per resident than 90% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Fairview and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Fairview, month by month
Fairview sees roughly 112 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 37. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 42° | 37° |
| April | 65° | 53° | 42° |
| July | 87° | 71° | 57° |
| October | 67° | 56° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Fairview
Portland International sits about 8 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 9.1 million passengers in 2025, with 117 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Fairview
Schools across Fairview average a C+, better than 56% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Multnomah Learning AcademyD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Fairview school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Fairview 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 Fairview against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Fairview
Is Fairview a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Fairview ranks 15,918th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, walkability, and transit, and lowest on childcare costs and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Fairview expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $406,668. The overall cost of living runs about 5% above the national average. Set against a $91,270 median income, cost of living beats 58% of towns.
Is Fairview safe?
Fairview is safer than 15% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $635 per resident a year.
Compare Fairview with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Fairview. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Fairview 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.
Fairview detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Fairview: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Fairview: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Fairview: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Fairview: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Fairview 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.