Best PlacesTiburon, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Tiburon, 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.
Tiburon ranks 1,310th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Tiburon
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.
Tiburon's strengths and weaknesses
Where Tiburon ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$226,870 median, better than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 192 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 98% of towns
Where Tiburon ranks low
- Cheap childcare$2,211 a month, better than only 1% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 15% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 18% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Tiburon
A household needs to earn about $517,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tiburon home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $226,870, 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 Tiburon'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 Tiburon
Tiburon runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Tiburon.
Who works in Tiburon, and how
Work in Tiburon centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 44%
- Work from home 42%
- Transit, walk, or bike 14%
Life in Tiburon
Tiburon has more restaurants and bars per resident than 66% of towns. The coast is about 9 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Tiburon and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Tiburon, month by month
Tiburon sees roughly 192 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 60, with lows near 42. The comfortable stretch runs April through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60° | 50° | 42° |
| April | 71° | 57° | 46° |
| July | 87° | 66° | 52° |
| October | 79° | 61° | 47° |
Flying in and out of Tiburon
San Francisco Bay Oakland International sits about 18 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 Tiburon
Schools across Tiburon average an A+, better than 95% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Bel Aire ElementaryA · 71% proficient
Top middle schools
- Del Mar MiddleA+ · 77% proficient
Top high schools
- Tamalpais HighA− · 64% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Tiburon school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Tiburon 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 Tiburon against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Tiburon
Is Tiburon a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tiburon ranks 1,310th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, high incomes, and biking, 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 Tiburon expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $2,000,001. The overall cost of living runs about 92% above the national average. Set against a $226,870 median income, cost of living beats 94% of towns.
Is Tiburon safe?
Tiburon is safer than 9% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $611 per resident a year.
Compare Tiburon with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tiburon. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tiburon 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.
Tiburon detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Tiburon: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Tiburon: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Tiburon: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Tiburon: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Tiburon 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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