Best PlacesVictorville, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Victorville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Victorville ranks 418th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It ranks low mainly on long commutes and air quality. It does better on fast internet, which keeps it off the bottom.
The best neighborhoods in Victorville
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.
Victorville's strengths and weaknesses
Victorville ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. Fast internet, big-city access, and the weather carry most of that.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: long commutes, air quality, and tree cover all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Victorville ranks high
- Internet speedBetter than 87% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 78% of cities
- Nice weatherabout 161 pleasant days a year, better than 76% of cities
- QuietBetter than 74% of cities
- Low vacancyBetter than 55% of cities
Where Victorville ranks low
- Short commute40.0 minutes each way, better than only 2% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of cities
- Tree shadeBetter than only 3% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than only 4% of cities
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 5% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Victorville
A household needs to earn about $103,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Victorville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $82,359, 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 Victorville's effective rate of 0.81%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Victorville
Victorville 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 Victorville.
Who works in Victorville, and how
Work in Victorville centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Victorville
Victorville has more parkland per resident than 78% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Victorville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Victorville, month by month
Victorville sees roughly 161 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 101 degrees. January highs sit near 60, with lows near 34. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60° | 46° | 34° |
| April | 77° | 60° | 44° |
| July | 101° | 84° | 66° |
| October | 81° | 64° | 49° |
Flying in and out of Victorville
The nearest airport, San Bernardino International, is about 29 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Ontario International, about 34 miles away.
The best schools in and around Victorville
Schools across Victorville average a C+, better than 41% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Gus Franklin Jr.D+ · 25% proficient
- West Creek ElementaryD+ · 25% proficient
- Phoenix AcademyD+ · 25% proficient
Top middle schools
- Quail Valley MiddleD+ · 25% proficient
- Hesperia Junior HighD+ · 25% proficient
- Cedar MiddleD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Oak Hills HighC+ · 35% proficient
- Cajon HighC · 31% proficient
- Hesperia HighC · 31% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Victorville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Victorville 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 Victorville against the other 444 cities.
Who Victorville suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 9% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Victorville
Is Victorville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Victorville ranks 418th of 445 cities. It scores highest on fast internet, big-city access, and the weather, and lowest on long commutes and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Victorville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $393,765. The overall cost of living runs about 6% above the national average. Set against a $82,359 median income, cost of living beats 17% of cities.
Is Victorville safe?
Victorville is safer than 38% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $458 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Victorville?
July highs average about 101 degrees, and January highs near 60 with lows near 34. That works out to about 161 pleasant days a year, more than 76% of cities.
Is Victorville good for families?
Schools beat 41% of cities, crime safety beats 38%, and childcare runs $1,252 a month.
Is Victorville good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 17% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 87% of cities. About 9% of workers already work from home.
Compare Victorville with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Victorville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Victorville 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.
Victorville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Victorville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Victorville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Victorville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Victorville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Victorville 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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