Best PlacesRobles Del Rio, CA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Robles Del Rio, 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.

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Robles Del Rio ranks 1,022nd 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.

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The best neighborhoods in Robles Del Rio

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Robles Del Rio area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Robles Del Rio's strengths and weaknesses

#1022Best US town overall
Top 1%High incomes
Top 3%The weather
Top 3%An educated workforce
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Robles Del Rio with other towns.

Where Robles Del Rio ranks high

  • Household income$193,267 median, better than 99% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 182 pleasant days a year, better than 98% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
  • BikingBetter than 97% of towns
  • QuietBetter than 97% of towns

Where Robles Del Rio ranks low

  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 4% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$1,371 a month, better than only 7% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 16% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Robles Del Rio

A household needs to earn about $362,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Robles Del Rio home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $193,267, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$362,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$8,441
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $1,398,700 home
Median rent
$1,337
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$7,132
Property tax$843
Homeowners insurance$466

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 Robles Del Rio's effective rate of 0.72%, 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.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Robles Del Rio

Robles Del Rio runs older than the country.

Median age
51
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
32%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.5
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1819%
18 to 3410%
35 to 4917%
50 to 6422%
65 and older32%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Robles Del Rio.


Who works in Robles Del Rio, and how

Work in Robles Del Rio centers on education and hospitality & food. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
28%
above the national average
Unemployment
2.4%
below the national average
Job growth
−8.1%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Education21%
Hospitality & food17%
Professional & technical13%
Health care & social10%
Real estate6%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 68%
  • Work from home 28%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Robles Del Rio

The coast is about 23 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Robles Del Rio, which the map shows.

To the coast
23 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Robles Del Rio, month by month

Robles Del Rio sees roughly 182 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 69 degrees. January highs sit near 63, with lows near 43. The comfortable stretch runs April through November.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January63°52°43°
April65°56°48°
July69°60°54°
October72°60°50°

Flying in and out of Robles Del Rio

The nearest airport, Monterey Regional, is about 7 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Norman Y Mineta San Jose International, about 61 miles away.

Nearest airport
MRY
Monterey Regional, about 7 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
175th-busiest in the US, 14 nonstop destinations
Average drive
11 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Robles Del Rio

Schools across Robles Del Rio average an A−, better than 87% of towns.

Top middle schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Robles Del Rio school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Robles Del Rio 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 Robles Del Rio against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Robles Del Rio

Is Robles Del Rio a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Robles Del Rio ranks 1,022nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on high incomes, the weather, and an educated workforce, and lowest on civic engagement and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Robles Del Rio expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $1,398,700. The overall cost of living runs about 58% above the national average. Set against a $193,267 median income, cost of living beats 93% of towns.

Is Robles Del Rio safe?

Yes, Robles Del Rio is safer than 64% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $269 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Robles Del Rio. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Robles Del Rio 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.

Robles Del Rio detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Robles Del Rio: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Robles Del Rio: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Robles Del Rio: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Robles Del Rio: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Robles Del Rio detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.