Best PlacesVistancia, Peoria, AZ Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Vistancia, Peoria, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Vistancia, Peoria ranks 1,070th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a strong job market by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Vistancia, Peoria

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Vistancia, Peoria area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Vistancia, Peoria's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%A strong job market
Top 3%Civic engagement
Top 5%Health care access
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Vistancia, Peoria with other neighborhoods.

Where Vistancia, Peoria ranks high

  • Local economyBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Voter turnoutBetter than 98% of neighborhoods
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of neighborhoods
  • Crime safetyBetter than 92% of neighborhoods
  • QuietBetter than 92% of neighborhoods

Where Vistancia, Peoria ranks low

  • Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • WalkabilityBetter than only 2% of neighborhoods
  • TransitBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • Air qualityBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 7% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Vistancia, Peoria

A household needs to earn about $162,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Vistancia, Peoria home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $116,859, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$162,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$3,776
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $639,630 home
Median rent
$2,285
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,261
Property tax$302
Homeowners insurance$213

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 Vistancia, Peoria's effective rate of 0.57%, 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 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Vistancia, Peoria

Vistancia, Peoria runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
55
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
42%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1816%
18 to 3410%
35 to 4915%
50 to 6418%
65 and older42%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Vistancia, Peoria.


Who works in Vistancia, Peoria, and how

Work in Vistancia, Peoria centers on finance & insurance and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
33%
above the national average
Unemployment
2.1%
below the national average
Job growth
+21.5%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Finance & insurance16%
Professional & technical14%
Health care & social11%
Education8%
Retail trade8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 65%
  • Work from home 33%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in Vistancia, Peoria

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Vistancia, Peoria.


What the weather is like in Vistancia, Peoria, month by month

Vistancia, Peoria sees roughly 138 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 109 degrees. January highs sit near 67, with lows near 40. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and November.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January67°53°40°
April88°73°56°
July109°96°83°
October91°76°61°

Flying in and out of Vistancia, Peoria

Phoenix Sky Harbor International sits about 29 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.2 million passengers in 2025, with 177 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
PHX
Phoenix Sky Harbor International, about 29 miles
Airport size
Large hub
13th-busiest in the US, 177 nonstop destinations
Average drive
41 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Vistancia, Peoria

Schools across Vistancia, Peoria average an A−, better than 91% of neighborhoods.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Vistancia, Peoria school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Vistancia, Peoria 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 Vistancia, Peoria against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Vistancia, Peoria

Is Vistancia, Peoria a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Vistancia, Peoria ranks 1,070th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on a strong job market, civic engagement, and health care access, and lowest on summer heat and walkability. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Vistancia, Peoria expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $639,630. The overall cost of living runs about 2% below the national average. Set against a $116,859 median income, cost of living beats 88% of neighborhoods.

Is Vistancia, Peoria safe?

Yes, Vistancia, Peoria is safer than 92% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $238 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Vistancia, Peoria. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Vistancia, Peoria 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.

Vistancia, Peoria detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Vistancia, Peoria: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Vistancia, Peoria: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Vistancia, Peoria: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Vistancia, Peoria: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Vistancia, Peoria detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.