Best PlacesVincent, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Vincent, 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.
Vincent ranks 16,570th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Vincent
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.
Vincent's strengths and weaknesses
Where Vincent ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 276 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 98% of towns
Where Vincent ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 1% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 5% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 6% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Vincent
A household needs to earn about $161,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Vincent home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $97,233, 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 Vincent's effective rate of 0.77%, 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 Vincent
Vincent 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 Vincent.
Who works in Vincent, and how
Work in Vincent centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Vincent
The coast is about 28 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Vincent, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Vincent, month by month
Vincent sees roughly 276 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 68, with lows near 48. The comfortable stretch runs October through May.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 68° | 60° | 48° |
| April | 76° | 68° | 57° |
| July | 89° | 81° | 69° |
| October | 83° | 74° | 60° |
Flying in and out of Vincent
Ontario International sits about 19 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.5 million passengers in 2025, with 62 nonstop destinations.
Vincent 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 Vincent against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Vincent
Is Vincent a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Vincent ranks 16,570th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, big-city access, and cell coverage, and lowest on air quality and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Vincent expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $618,749. The overall cost of living runs about 31% above the national average. Set against a $97,233 median income, cost of living beats 27% of towns.
Is Vincent safe?
Vincent is safer than 50% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $306 per resident a year.
Compare Vincent with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Vincent. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Vincent 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.
Vincent detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Vincent: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Vincent: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Vincent: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Vincent: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Vincent 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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