Best PlacesWoodland Hills, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Woodland Hills, 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.
Woodland Hills ranks 1,056th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Woodland Hills
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.
Woodland Hills' strengths and weaknesses
Where Woodland Hills ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 234 pleasant days a year, better than 94% of cities
- BikingBetter than 92% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 92% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than 86% of cities
- TransitBetter than 84% of cities
Where Woodland Hills ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 3% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 4% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 6% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 7% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 14% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Woodland Hills
A household needs to earn about $302,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Woodland Hills home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $127,679, 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 Woodland Hills' effective rate of 0.68%, 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 Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Woodland Hills.
Who works in Woodland Hills, and how
Work in Woodland Hills centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 68%
- Work from home 28%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills has more restaurants and bars per resident than 84% of cities and more parkland per resident than 79% of cities. The coast is about 15 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Woodland Hills and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Woodland Hills, month by month
Woodland Hills sees roughly 234 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 70, with lows near 46. The comfortable stretch runs October through June.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 70° | 57° | 46° |
| April | 79° | 64° | 52° |
| July | 95° | 78° | 65° |
| October | 88° | 71° | 58° |
Flying in and out of Woodland Hills
Bob Hope sits about 14 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.1 million passengers in 2025, with 54 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Woodland Hills
Schools across Woodland Hills average a B−, better than 50% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Chaparral ElementaryA+ · 75% proficient
- Bay Laurel ElementaryA− · 58% proficient
- Calabash Charter AcademyB+ · 53% proficient
Top middle schools
- Alice C. Stelle MiddleA− · 54% proficient
Top high schools
- Taft Charter HighA− · 60% proficient
- Early College Academy-la Trade Tech CollegeB · 50% proficient
- El Camino Real Charter HighB · 48% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Woodland Hills school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Woodland Hills 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 Woodland Hills against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Woodland Hills suits
Retirees
The weather beats 94% of cities and health care access beats 68%.
Common questions about living in Woodland Hills
Is Woodland Hills a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Woodland Hills ranks 1,056th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on the weather, biking, and big-city access, and lowest on noise and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Woodland Hills expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,175,440. The overall cost of living runs about 49% above the national average. Set against a $127,679 median income, cost of living beats 40% of cities.
Is Woodland Hills safe?
Woodland Hills is safer than 25% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $416 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Woodland Hills?
July highs average about 95 degrees, and January highs near 70 with lows near 46. That works out to about 234 pleasant days a year, more than 94% of cities.
Is Woodland Hills good for families?
Schools beat 50% of cities, crime safety beats 25%, and childcare runs $1,130 a month.
Compare Woodland Hills with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Woodland Hills. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Woodland Hills 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.
Woodland Hills detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Woodland Hills: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Woodland Hills: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Woodland Hills: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Woodland Hills: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Woodland Hills 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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