Best PlacesFashion District, Los Angeles, CA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Fashion District, Los Angeles, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Fashion District, Los Angeles ranks 4,837th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on big-city access by a wide margin, and crime is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Fashion District, Los Angeles

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Fashion District, Los Angeles area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Fashion District, Los Angeles' strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Big-city access
Top 3%The weather
Top 5%Transit
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Fashion District, Los Angeles with other neighborhoods.

Where Fashion District, Los Angeles ranks high

  • Big-city accessBetter than 98% of neighborhoods
  • Nice weatherabout 305 pleasant days a year, better than 97% of neighborhoods
  • TransitBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
  • WalkabilityBetter than 94% of neighborhoods
  • BikingBetter than 92% of neighborhoods

Where Fashion District, Los Angeles ranks low

  • Crime safetyBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • QuietBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Air qualityBetter than only 3% of neighborhoods
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Fashion District, Los Angeles

A household needs to earn about $200,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Fashion District, Los Angeles home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $62,791, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$200,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$4,660
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $777,837 home
Median rent
$2,361
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,966
Property tax$435
Homeowners insurance$259

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 Fashion District, Los Angeles' effective rate of 0.67%, 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 Fashion District, Los Angeles

Fashion District, Los Angeles runs younger than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
35
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
7%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
1.6
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1810%
18 to 3437%
35 to 4925%
50 to 6420%
65 and older7%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Fashion District, Los Angeles.


Who works in Fashion District, Los Angeles, and how

Work in Fashion District, Los Angeles centers on professional & technical and retail trade. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
26%
above the national average
Unemployment
8.3%
above the national average
Job growth
−1.9%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical16%
Retail trade15%
Manufacturing11%
Health care & social10%
Transportation & warehousing8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 36%
  • Work from home 26%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 37%

Life in Fashion District, Los Angeles

Fashion District, Los Angeles has more restaurants and bars per resident than 97% of neighborhoods. The coast is about 12 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Fashion District, Los Angeles and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
264
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 534.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 97% of neighborhoods
Coffee shops
40
about 81.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 97% of neighborhoods
To the coast
12 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Fashion District, Los Angeles, month by month

Fashion District, Los Angeles sees roughly 305 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 70, with lows near 48. 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
January70°58°48°
April76°64°55°
July85°73°65°
October82°69°60°

Flying in and out of Fashion District, Los Angeles

The nearest airport, Jack Northrop Field/Hawthorne Municipal, is about 9 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Los Angeles International, about 11 miles away.

Nearest airport
HHR
Jack Northrop Field/Hawthorne Municipal, about 9 miles
Airport size
Nonprimary
7 nonstop destinations
Average drive
13 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Fashion District, Los Angeles

Schools across Fashion District, Los Angeles average a D+, better than 23% of neighborhoods.

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Fashion District, Los Angeles school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Fashion District, Los Angeles 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 Fashion District, Los Angeles against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Fashion District, Los Angeles

Is Fashion District, Los Angeles a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Fashion District, Los Angeles ranks 4,837th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on big-city access, the weather, and transit, and lowest on crime and tree cover. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Fashion District, Los Angeles expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $777,837. The overall cost of living runs about 46% above the national average. Set against a $62,791 median income, cost of living beats 6% of neighborhoods.

Is Fashion District, Los Angeles safe?

Fashion District, Los Angeles is safer than 0% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $2,410 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 Fashion District, Los Angeles. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Fashion District, Los Angeles 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.

Fashion District, Los Angeles detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Fashion District, Los Angeles 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.