Best PlacesOrange Park Acres, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Orange Park Acres, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Orange Park Acres ranks 3,988th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on high incomes by a wide margin, and civic engagement ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Orange Park Acres
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.
Orange Park Acres' strengths and weaknesses
Where Orange Park Acres ranks high
- Household income$187,801 median, better than 99% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 206 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 98% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 98% of towns
Where Orange Park Acres ranks low
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 1% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,494 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 7% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Orange Park Acres
A household needs to earn about $316,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Orange Park Acres home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $187,801, 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 Orange Park Acres' effective rate of 0.86%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Orange Park Acres
Orange Park Acres 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 Orange Park Acres.
Who works in Orange Park Acres, and how
Work in Orange Park Acres centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Orange Park Acres
The coast is about 18 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Orange Park Acres, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Orange Park Acres, month by month
Orange Park Acres sees roughly 206 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 70, with lows near 40. The comfortable stretch runs January through June and September through November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 70° | 55° | 40° |
| April | 79° | 62° | 46° |
| July | 93° | 76° | 60° |
| October | 86° | 67° | 50° |
Flying in and out of Orange Park Acres
John Wayne/Orange County sits about 12 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 Orange Park Acres
Schools across Orange Park Acres average a B−, better than 58% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Running Springs AcademyD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- El Modena HighB · 46% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Orange Park Acres school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Orange Park Acres 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 Orange Park Acres against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Orange Park Acres
Is Orange Park Acres a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Orange Park Acres ranks 3,988th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on high incomes, the weather, and big-city access, and lowest on civic engagement and a weak job market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Orange Park Acres expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,200,000. The overall cost of living runs about 51% above the national average. Set against a $187,801 median income, cost of living beats 94% of towns.
Is Orange Park Acres safe?
Yes, Orange Park Acres is safer than 78% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $225 per resident a year.
Compare Orange Park Acres with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Orange Park Acres. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Orange Park Acres 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.
Orange Park Acres detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Orange Park Acres: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Orange Park Acres: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Orange Park Acres: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Orange Park Acres: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Orange Park Acres 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.
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