Best PlacesTujunga, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Tujunga, 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.
Tujunga ranks 1,574th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on big-city access by a wide margin, and the cost of living against local pay is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Tujunga
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.
Tujunga's strengths and weaknesses
Where Tujunga ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 94% of cities
- Nice weatherabout 227 pleasant days a year, better than 93% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 93% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than 89% of cities
- TransitBetter than 77% of cities
Where Tujunga ranks low
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 4% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 6% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 10% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 12% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 14% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Tujunga
A household needs to earn about $207,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tujunga home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $90,539, 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 Tujunga'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 Tujunga
Tujunga runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Tujunga.
Who works in Tujunga, and how
Work in Tujunga centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Tujunga
The coast is about 27 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Tujunga, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Tujunga, month by month
Tujunga sees roughly 227 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 69, with lows near 44. The comfortable stretch runs September through July.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 69° | 56° | 44° |
| April | 77° | 63° | 53° |
| July | 90° | 75° | 65° |
| October | 84° | 69° | 57° |
Flying in and out of Tujunga
Bob Hope sits about 6 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 Tujunga
Schools across Tujunga average a C, better than 26% of cities.
Top high schools
- Crescenta Valley HighA · 77% proficient
- Verdugo Hills Senior HighA− · 63% proficient
- Valley Academy Of Arts And SciencesC+ · 35% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Tujunga school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Tujunga 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 Tujunga against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Tujunga suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 14% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Tujunga
Is Tujunga a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tujunga ranks 1,574th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on big-city access, the weather, and fast internet, and lowest on the cost of living against local pay and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Tujunga expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $801,925. The overall cost of living runs about 47% above the national average. Set against a $90,539 median income, cost of living beats 4% of cities.
Is Tujunga safe?
Tujunga is safer than 37% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $351 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Tujunga?
July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 69 with lows near 44. That works out to about 227 pleasant days a year, more than 93% of cities.
Is Tujunga good for families?
Schools beat 26% of cities, crime safety beats 37%, and childcare runs $1,130 a month.
Compare Tujunga with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tujunga. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tujunga 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.
Tujunga detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Tujunga: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Tujunga: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Tujunga: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Tujunga: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Tujunga 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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