Best PlacesPiru, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Piru, 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.
Piru ranks 39,900th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Piru
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.
Piru's strengths and weaknesses
Where Piru ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 245 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 98% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 93% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 91% of towns
- BikingBetter than 86% of towns
Where Piru ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,592 a month, better than only 2% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 2% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 3% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 4% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Piru
A household needs to earn about $156,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Piru home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $93,883, 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 Piru's effective rate of 0.70%, 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 Piru
Piru runs younger 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 Piru.
Who works in Piru, and how
Work in Piru centers on health care & social 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 86%
- Work from home 7%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Piru
The coast is about 36 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Piru, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Piru, month by month
Piru sees roughly 245 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 80 degrees. January highs sit near 69, with lows near 44. Every month averages in that range.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 69° | 56° | 44° |
| April | 73° | 60° | 49° |
| July | 80° | 69° | 61° |
| October | 80° | 66° | 54° |
Flying in and out of Piru
Bob Hope sits about 28 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 Piru
Schools across Piru average a D+, better than 22% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Vista ElementaryA · 69% proficient
Top middle schools
- Valley View MiddleC+ · 36% proficient
Top high schools
- The High School At Moorpark CollegeB+ · 58% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Piru school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Piru 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 Piru against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Piru
Is Piru a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Piru ranks 39,900th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, big-city access, and population health, and lowest on childcare costs and education levels. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Piru expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $606,861. The overall cost of living runs about 16% above the national average. Set against a $93,883 median income, cost of living beats 38% of towns.
Is Piru safe?
Piru is safer than 25% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $426 per resident a year.
Compare Piru with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Piru. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Piru 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.
Piru detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Piru: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Piru: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Piru: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Piru: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Piru 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.