Best PlacesGranada Hills, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Granada Hills, 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.
Granada Hills ranks 1,139th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Granada Hills
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.
Granada Hills' strengths and weaknesses
Where Granada Hills ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 242 pleasant days a year, better than 94% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 92% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 86% of cities
- BikingBetter than 86% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than 82% of cities
Where Granada Hills ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 7% of cities
- Short commute34.2 minutes each way, better than only 8% of cities
- QuietBetter than only 10% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 11% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Granada Hills
A household needs to earn about $237,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Granada Hills home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $129,544, 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 Granada Hills' effective rate of 0.63%, 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 Granada Hills
Granada Hills runs older 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 Granada Hills.
Who works in Granada Hills, and how
Work in Granada Hills centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 75%
- Work from home 22%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Granada Hills
Granada Hills has more parkland per resident than 78% of cities. The coast is about 19 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Granada Hills and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Granada Hills, month by month
Granada Hills sees roughly 242 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 70, with lows near 46. The comfortable stretch runs October through June.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 70° | 57° | 46° |
| April | 79° | 64° | 52° |
| July | 95° | 78° | 65° |
| October | 88° | 71° | 58° |
Flying in and out of Granada Hills
Bob Hope sits about 10 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.1 million passengers in 2025, with 54 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Granada Hills
Schools across Granada Hills average a C+, better than 34% of cities.
Top high schools
- John F. Kennedy HighB · 49% proficient
- Valley Academy Of Arts And SciencesC+ · 35% proficient
- Sylmar Biotech Health And Engineering MagnetC− · 28% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Granada Hills school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Granada Hills 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 Granada Hills against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Granada Hills suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 22% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Granada Hills
Is Granada Hills a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Granada Hills ranks 1,139th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on the weather, big-city access, and fast internet, and lowest on air quality and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Granada Hills expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $928,477. The overall cost of living runs about 43% above the national average. Set against a $129,544 median income, cost of living beats 42% of cities.
Is Granada Hills safe?
Granada Hills is safer than 50% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $315 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Granada Hills?
July highs average about 95 degrees, and January highs near 70 with lows near 46. That works out to about 242 pleasant days a year, more than 94% of cities.
Is Granada Hills good for families?
Schools beat 34% of cities, crime safety beats 50%, and childcare runs $1,130 a month.
Compare Granada Hills with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Granada Hills. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Granada Hills 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.
Granada Hills detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Granada Hills: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Granada Hills: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Granada Hills: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Granada Hills: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Granada Hills 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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