Best PlacesLittleton, CO Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Littleton, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Littleton ranks 491st of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Littleton
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.
Littleton's strengths and weaknesses
Where Littleton ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 95% of cities
- BikingBetter than 93% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than 91% of cities
- Health outlookBetter than 88% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than 86% of cities
Where Littleton ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 8% of cities
- Cheap childcare$1,665 a month, better than only 9% of cities
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 12% of cities
- Tree shadeBetter than only 28% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 29% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Littleton
A household needs to earn about $179,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Littleton home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $123,335, 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 Littleton's effective rate of 0.54%, 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 Littleton
Littleton runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Littleton.
Who works in Littleton, and how
Work in Littleton centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 69%
- Work from home 26%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Littleton
Littleton has more restaurants and bars per resident than 77% of cities and more parkland per resident than 95% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Littleton and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Littleton, month by month
Littleton sees roughly 149 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 18. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47° | 31° | 18° |
| April | 64° | 48° | 32° |
| July | 90° | 74° | 59° |
| October | 69° | 52° | 36° |
Flying in and out of Littleton
Denver International sits about 27 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 40.1 million passengers in 2025, with 250 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Littleton
Schools across Littleton average a B−, better than 55% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Northridge Elementary SchoolA · 70% proficient
- Stone Mountain ElementaryA · 68% proficient
- Wilder Elementary SchoolA · 65% proficient
Top middle schools
- Manning Options SchoolA · 65% proficient
- John Wesley Powell Middle SchoolA− · 56% proficient
- Rocky Heights Middle SchoolA− · 55% proficient
Top high schools
- D'evelyn Junior/senior High SchoolA · 73% proficient
- Rock Canyon High SchoolA · 69% proficient
- Mountain Vista High SchoolA− · 61% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Littleton school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Littleton 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 Littleton against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Littleton suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 81% of cities and 26% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Littleton
Is Littleton a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Littleton ranks 491st of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on heat safety, biking, and low property taxes, and lowest on air quality and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Littleton expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $712,514. The overall cost of living runs about 3% above the national average. Set against a $123,335 median income, cost of living beats 81% of cities.
Is Littleton safe?
Littleton is safer than 30% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $542 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Littleton?
July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 47 with lows near 18. That works out to about 149 pleasant days a year, more than 82% of cities.
Is Littleton good for families?
Schools beat 55% of cities, crime safety beats 30%, and childcare runs $1,665 a month.
Compare Littleton with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Littleton. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Littleton 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.
Littleton detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Littleton: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Littleton: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Littleton: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Littleton: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Littleton 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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