Best PlacesYucaipa, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Yucaipa, 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.
Yucaipa ranks 1,525th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Yucaipa
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.
Yucaipa's strengths and weaknesses
Where Yucaipa ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 202 pleasant days a year, better than 92% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 89% of cities
- QuietBetter than 88% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 78% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 77% of cities
Where Yucaipa ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 1% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 3% of cities
- Short commute32.6 minutes each way, better than only 12% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 14% of cities
- Tree shadeBetter than only 15% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Yucaipa
A household needs to earn about $140,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Yucaipa home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $102,437, 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 Yucaipa's effective rate of 0.82%, 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 Yucaipa
Yucaipa 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 Yucaipa.
Who works in Yucaipa, and how
Work in Yucaipa centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Yucaipa
Yucaipa has more parkland per resident than 86% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Yucaipa and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Yucaipa, month by month
Yucaipa sees roughly 202 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 99 degrees. January highs sit near 67, with lows near 44. The comfortable stretch runs February through June and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 67° | 54° | 44° |
| April | 79° | 64° | 52° |
| July | 99° | 82° | 68° |
| October | 86° | 70° | 57° |
Flying in and out of Yucaipa
The nearest airport, San Bernardino International, is about 12 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Ontario International, about 32 miles away.
The best schools in and around Yucaipa
Schools across Yucaipa average a C+, better than 34% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Inland Leaders CharterA · 64% proficient
Top high schools
- Beaumont Senior HighB · 50% proficient
- Yucaipa HighB− · 44% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Yucaipa school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Yucaipa 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 Yucaipa against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Yucaipa suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 12% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Yucaipa
Is Yucaipa a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Yucaipa ranks 1,525th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on the weather, fast internet, and quiet, and lowest on air quality and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Yucaipa expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $533,899. The overall cost of living runs about 14% above the national average. Set against a $102,437 median income, cost of living beats 41% of cities.
Is Yucaipa safe?
Yucaipa is safer than 46% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $340 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Yucaipa?
July highs average about 99 degrees, and January highs near 67 with lows near 44. That works out to about 202 pleasant days a year, more than 92% of cities.
Is Yucaipa good for families?
Schools beat 34% of cities, crime safety beats 46%, and childcare runs $1,253 a month.
Compare Yucaipa with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Yucaipa. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Yucaipa 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.
Yucaipa detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Yucaipa: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Yucaipa: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Yucaipa: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Yucaipa: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Yucaipa 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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