Best PlacesUpper St. Clair, PA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Upper St. Clair, 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.
Upper St. Clair ranks 287th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on good schools by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Upper St. Clair
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.
Upper St. Clair's strengths and weaknesses
Where Upper St. Clair ranks high
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 99% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
Where Upper St. Clair ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 2% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 13% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 19% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 24% of towns
- Cheap childcare$991 a month, better than only 25% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Upper St. Clair
A household needs to earn about $141,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Upper St. Clair home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $166,767, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 Upper St. Clair's effective rate of 2.04%, 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 Upper St. Clair
Upper St. Clair runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Upper St. Clair.
Who works in Upper St. Clair, and how
Work in Upper St. Clair centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 65%
- Work from home 30%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Upper St. Clair
Upper St. Clair has more parkland per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Upper St. Clair and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Upper St. Clair, month by month
Upper St. Clair sees roughly 77 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 31° | 23° |
| April | 66° | 53° | 41° |
| July | 86° | 75° | 65° |
| October | 68° | 57° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Upper St. Clair
Pittsburgh International sits about 14 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.8 million passengers in 2025, with 104 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Upper St. Clair
Schools across Upper St. Clair average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Streams El SchA+ · 98% proficient
- Baker El SchA+ · 98% proficient
- South Fayette Intermediate SchA+ · 95% proficient
Top middle schools
- Fort Couch MsA+ · 83% proficient
- South Fayette MsA+ · 80% proficient
- Neil Armstrong 5-6 MsA · 61% proficient
Top high schools
- Peters Twp HsA+ · 100% proficient
- Upper Saint Clair HsA+ · 91% proficient
- South Fayette Twp HsA+ · 88% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Upper St. Clair school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Upper St. Clair 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 Upper St. Clair against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Upper St. Clair suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 99% of towns, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 30% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Upper St. Clair
Is Upper St. Clair a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Upper St. Clair ranks 287th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, civic engagement, and low disaster risk, and lowest on property taxes and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Upper St. Clair expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $460,216. The overall cost of living runs about 4% above the national average. Set against a $166,767 median income, cost of living beats 99% of towns.
Is Upper St. Clair safe?
Yes, Upper St. Clair is safer than 68% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $215 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Upper St. Clair?
July highs average about 86 degrees, and January highs near 40 with lows near 23. That works out to about 77 pleasant days a year, more than 40% of towns.
Is Upper St. Clair good for families?
Schools beat 100% of towns, crime safety beats 68%, and childcare runs $991 a month.
Compare Upper St. Clair with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Upper St. Clair. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Upper St. Clair 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.
Upper St. Clair detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Upper St. Clair: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Upper St. Clair: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Upper St. Clair: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Upper St. Clair: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Upper St. Clair 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.
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