Best PlacesOrinda Village, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Orinda Village, 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.
Orinda Village ranks 3,697th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on high incomes by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Orinda Village
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.
Orinda Village's strengths and weaknesses
Where Orinda Village ranks high
- Household income$226,439 median, better than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 187 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 98% of towns
Where Orinda Village ranks low
- Cheap childcare$2,043 a month, better than only 1% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Orinda Village
A household needs to earn about $480,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Orinda Village home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $226,439, 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 Orinda Village's effective rate of 1.03%, 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 Orinda Village
Orinda Village runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Orinda Village.
Who works in Orinda Village, and how
Work in Orinda Village centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 53%
- Work from home 34%
- Transit, walk, or bike 13%
Life in Orinda Village
The coast is about 21 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Orinda Village, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Orinda Village, month by month
Orinda Village sees roughly 187 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 74 degrees. January highs sit near 61, with lows near 43. The comfortable stretch runs March through November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 61° | 52° | 43° |
| April | 68° | 57° | 49° |
| July | 74° | 63° | 56° |
| October | 76° | 63° | 51° |
Flying in and out of Orinda Village
San Francisco Bay Oakland International sits about 12 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.5 million passengers in 2025, with 64 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Orinda Village
Schools across Orinda Village average a B, better than 71% of towns.
Top high schools
- Miramonte HighA+ · 82% proficient
- Middle College HighA · 75% proficient
- Alhambra Senior HighB · 48% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Orinda Village school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Orinda Village 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 Orinda Village against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Orinda Village
Is Orinda Village a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Orinda Village ranks 3,697th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on high incomes, an educated workforce, and what local pay buys, and lowest on childcare costs and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Orinda Village expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,781,639. The overall cost of living runs about 44% above the national average. Set against a $226,439 median income, cost of living beats 99% of towns.
Is Orinda Village safe?
Orinda Village is safer than 9% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $628 per resident a year.
Compare Orinda Village with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Orinda Village. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Orinda Village 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.
Orinda Village detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Orinda Village: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Orinda Village: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Orinda Village: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Orinda Village: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Orinda Village 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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