Best PlacesPine Mountain Club, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pine Mountain Club, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Pine Mountain Club ranks 45,713th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Pine Mountain Club
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.
Pine Mountain Club's strengths and weaknesses
Where Pine Mountain Club ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 195 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 93% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 88% of towns
- BikingBetter than 85% of towns
- QuietBetter than 82% of towns
Where Pine Mountain Club ranks low
- Short commute55.0 minutes each way, better than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 4% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 7% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Pine Mountain Club
A household needs to earn about $110,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pine Mountain Club home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $79,947, 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 Pine Mountain Club's effective rate of 0.76%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Pine Mountain Club
Pine Mountain Club 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 Pine Mountain Club.
Who works in Pine Mountain Club, and how
Work in Pine Mountain Club centers on professional & technical and construction. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 72%
- Work from home 26%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Pine Mountain Club
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Pine Mountain Club.
What the weather is like in Pine Mountain Club, month by month
Pine Mountain Club sees roughly 195 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 54, with lows near 38. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 54° | 44° | 38° |
| April | 66° | 53° | 43° |
| July | 91° | 78° | 66° |
| October | 76° | 63° | 54° |
Flying in and out of Pine Mountain Club
The nearest airport, Meadows Field, is about 41 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Bob Hope, about 64 miles away.
The best schools in and around Pine Mountain Club
Schools across Pine Mountain Club average a D+, better than 18% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Maricopa ElementaryF · 10% proficient
Top middle schools
- El Tejon ElementaryD+ · 25% proficient
- Maricopa MiddleF · 12% proficient
Top high schools
- Frazier Mountain HighC+ · 36% proficient
- Maricopa HighF · 10% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pine Mountain Club school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pine Mountain Club 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 Pine Mountain Club against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Pine Mountain Club
Is Pine Mountain Club a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pine Mountain Club ranks 45,713th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, big-city access, and an educated workforce, and lowest on long commutes and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Pine Mountain Club expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $422,739. The overall cost of living runs about 7% above the national average. Set against a $79,947 median income, cost of living beats 41% of towns.
Is Pine Mountain Club safe?
Pine Mountain Club is safer than 8% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $687 per resident a year.
Compare Pine Mountain Club with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pine Mountain Club. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pine Mountain Club 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.
Pine Mountain Club detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pine Mountain Club: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pine Mountain Club: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pine Mountain Club: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pine Mountain Club: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pine Mountain Club 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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