Best PlacesVina, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Vina, 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.
Vina ranks 45,577th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. The cost of living against local pay pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on the weather.
The best neighborhoods in Vina
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.
Vina's strengths and weaknesses
Where Vina ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 142 pleasant days a year, better than 90% of towns
- Short commute22.0 minutes each way, better than 80% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 74% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 70% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 62% of towns
Where Vina ranks low
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 8% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 10% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Vina
A household needs to earn about $60,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Vina home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $52,087, 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 Vina's effective rate of 0.76%, 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 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Vina
Vina runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Vina.
Who works in Vina, and how
Work in Vina centers on education and hospitality & food. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Vina
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Vina.
What the weather is like in Vina, month by month
Vina sees roughly 142 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 97 degrees. January highs sit near 57, with lows near 40. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 57° | 48° | 40° |
| April | 74° | 62° | 50° |
| July | 97° | 83° | 69° |
| October | 79° | 65° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Vina
The nearest airport, Redding Regional, is about 43 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Sacramento International, about 88 miles away.
The best schools in and around Vina
Schools across Vina average a D+, better than 19% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Kirkwood ElementaryB · 50% proficient
- Lassen View ElementaryB · 44% proficient
- Vina ElementaryC · 35% proficient
Top middle schools
- Maywood MiddleC− · 30% proficient
- Bidwell Junior HighD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Pleasant Valley HighB+ · 53% proficient
- Red Bluff HighC− · 27% proficient
- Corning HighD · 20% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Vina school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Vina 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 Vina against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Vina
Is Vina a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Vina ranks 45,577th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, short commutes, and cell coverage, and lowest on the cost of living against local pay and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Vina expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $228,980. The overall cost of living runs about 1% below the national average. Set against a $52,087 median income, cost of living beats 8% of towns.
Is Vina safe?
Vina is safer than 24% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $431 per resident a year.
Compare Vina with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Vina. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Vina 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.
Vina detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Vina: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Vina: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Vina: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Vina: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Vina 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.