Best PlacesPomona, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pomona, 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.
Pomona ranks 377th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 31 minutes away. Its strengths are the weather and big-city access. The cost shows up in air quality, civic engagement, and thin health care access.
The best neighborhoods in Pomona
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.
Pomona's strengths and weaknesses
Pomona ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. The weather, big-city access, and cell coverage carry most of that.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: air quality, civic engagement, and thin health care access all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Pomona ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 254 pleasant days a year, better than 94% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 93% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 92% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 91% of cities
- Low vacancyBetter than 84% of cities
Where Pomona ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of cities
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 4% of cities
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 4% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 4% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 5% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Pomona
A household needs to earn about $147,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pomona home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $86,023, 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 Pomona's effective rate of 0.71%, 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 Pomona
Pomona 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 Pomona.
Who works in Pomona, and how
Work in Pomona centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Pomona
Pomona has more restaurants and bars per resident than 66% of cities and more parkland per resident than 78% of cities. The coast is about 31 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Pomona and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Pomona, month by month
Pomona sees roughly 254 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 64, with lows near 45. The comfortable stretch runs October through June.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 64° | 56° | 45° |
| April | 73° | 65° | 52° |
| July | 90° | 80° | 65° |
| October | 81° | 72° | 58° |
Flying in and out of Pomona
Ontario International sits about 9 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.5 million passengers in 2025, with 62 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Pomona
Schools across Pomona average a C, better than 32% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- San Antonio ElementaryD− · 11% proficient
Top middle schools
- Simons MiddleD · 19% proficient
- Emerson MiddleF · 13% proficient
Top high schools
- Claremont HighA · 78% proficient
- International Polytechnic HighB+ · 53% proficient
- Montclair HighC+ · 39% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pomona school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pomona 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 Pomona against the other 444 cities.
Who Pomona suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 10% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Pomona
Is Pomona a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pomona ranks 377th of 445 cities. It scores highest on the weather, big-city access, and cell coverage, and lowest on air quality and civic engagement. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Pomona expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $569,714. The overall cost of living runs about 26% above the national average. Set against a $86,023 median income, cost of living beats 5% of cities.
Is Pomona safe?
Pomona is safer than 50% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $402 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Pomona?
July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 64 with lows near 45. That works out to about 254 pleasant days a year, more than 94% of cities.
Is Pomona good for families?
Schools beat 32% of cities, crime safety beats 50%, and childcare runs $1,133 a month.
Is Pomona good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 5% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 91% of cities. About 10% of workers already work from home.
Compare Pomona with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pomona. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pomona 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.
Pomona detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pomona: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pomona: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pomona: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pomona: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pomona 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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