Best PlacesFloral Park, Santa Ana, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Floral Park, Santa Ana, 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.
Floral Park, Santa Ana ranks 1,724th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low property taxes by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Floral Park, Santa Ana
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.
Floral Park, Santa Ana's strengths and weaknesses
Where Floral Park, Santa Ana ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
- Nice weatherabout 328 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of neighborhoods
- Low vacancyBetter than 97% of neighborhoods
- Cell coverageBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
- Big-city accessBetter than 93% of neighborhoods
Where Floral Park, Santa Ana ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
- Air qualityBetter than only 11% of neighborhoods
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 13% of neighborhoods
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 14% of neighborhoods
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 17% of neighborhoods
What it costs to buy a home in Floral Park, Santa Ana
A household needs to earn about $274,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Floral Park, Santa Ana home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $133,099, 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 Floral Park, Santa Ana's effective rate of 0.30%, 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 Floral Park, Santa Ana
Floral Park, Santa Ana runs younger 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 Floral Park, Santa Ana.
Who works in Floral Park, Santa Ana, and how
Work in Floral Park, Santa Ana centers on construction and hospitality & food. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 83%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Floral Park, Santa Ana
The coast is about 10 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Floral Park, Santa Ana, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Floral Park, Santa Ana, month by month
Floral Park, Santa Ana sees roughly 328 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 69, with lows near 48. Every month averages in that range.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 69° | 58° | 48° |
| April | 73° | 63° | 56° |
| July | 81° | 72° | 66° |
| October | 81° | 69° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Floral Park, Santa Ana
John Wayne/Orange County sits about 6 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.5 million passengers in 2025, with 80 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Floral Park, Santa Ana
Schools across Floral Park, Santa Ana average a C, better than 39% of neighborhoods.
Top elementary schools
- Jim Thorpe FundamentalC+ · 37% proficient
Top high schools
- Hector G. GodinezC+ · 35% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Floral Park, Santa Ana school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Floral Park, Santa Ana 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 Floral Park, Santa Ana against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.
Common questions about living in Floral Park, Santa Ana
Is Floral Park, Santa Ana a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Floral Park, Santa Ana ranks 1,724th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on low property taxes, the weather, and few empty homes, and lowest on noise and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Floral Park, Santa Ana expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,123,491. The overall cost of living runs about 42% above the national average. Set against a $133,099 median income, cost of living beats 62% of neighborhoods.
Is Floral Park, Santa Ana safe?
Yes, Floral Park, Santa Ana is safer than 80% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $307 per resident a year.
Compare Floral Park, Santa Ana with other neighborhoods
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Floral Park, Santa Ana. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Floral Park, Santa Ana 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.
Floral Park, Santa Ana detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Floral Park, Santa Ana: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Floral Park, Santa Ana: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Floral Park, Santa Ana: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Floral Park, Santa Ana: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Floral Park, Santa Ana 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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