The 10 Best Neighborhoods In Los Angeles For 2022

The Best Neighborhoods In Los Angeles For 2022

1. Mar Vista (Homes)
2. Westwood (Homes)
3. Bel Air (Homes)
4. Portar Ranch (Homes)
5. West Los Angeles (Homes)
6. Pacific Palisades (Homes)
7. Brentwood (Homes)
8. Palms (Homes)
9. Sawtelle (Homes)
10. Century City (Homes)

The 10 Best Neighborhoods To Live In Los Angeles

If you want to live close to the Los Angeles Airport and close to Venice Beach, but not on the beach, then Los Angeles' first for 2022 neighborhood should be right up your alley.

But, folks, the Mar Vista neighborhood comes with a price. Homes in this neighborhood will run you around $797,290 and the median income is around $78,017. Fortunately, however, it's cheaper to rent in Mar Vista than buy. With rental rates currently topping $1,576, this gives you an opportunity to check out the neighborhood at discount before making any major, life changing, financial decisions.

Westwood is the largest neighborhood in terms of population on our list, currently recording 55,285 residents.

The bonus to this neighborhood, it's super safe. It ranked the fourth safest neighborhood on our list.

The one downfall to this neighborhood, however, is that the unemployment rate is currently above the national average at 5.0 percent. This tells us two things: 1).You should probably have a job in mind before you consider Los Angeles' second best neighborhood; and 2). Local notables like Mila Kunis and Johnny Depp won't live next to just anyone.

You, too, can live in Los Angeles' third best neighborhood if you can afford to buy a $1,853,384 home.

But don't let that price tag scare you. Bel Air, or Bel Air Estates as the locals call it, does have its many perks. It's located in the Westside area of LA in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains; and, people, it's gated. Probably why it's LA's second safest neighborhood.

Bel Air is another lightly populated neighborhood that made our list reporting only 8,746 residents. So, if you're into living next to older, well-educated neighbors who make a lot of money, definitely give Bel Air a second look.

Los Angeles' fourth neighborhood for 2022 is not just any ranch, it's Porter Ranch.

Hailing from the northwest area of LA in the San Fernando Valley region, the fourth best neighborhood on our list does not disappoint. Porter Ranch has less expensive homes with the average around $681,550 and a higher than average rent rate at $2,763. So, buy, don't rent, if you're considering Porter Ranch: it will be easier on your pocket book.

And word on the street, the Porter Ranch neighborhood is one of the best kept secrets in California.

Located on the corner of the 405 and the 10 is the fifth best neighborhood in the City of Angels, West Los Angeles.

This is one of the many neighborhoods on the list that hails from the northwest side of LA. And can we just say, if you like shopping at Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, you will be super close if West Los Angeles is your jam.

The homes in West Los Angeles are going to run you around $1,114,810, but the neighborhood is super worth it.

If you guessed that Los Angeles' sixth best neighborhood, Pacific Palisades, got its name because it is located on the Pacific coastline, you guessed right.

But I bet you didn't know that if you want to live in this coveted LA neighborhood, you're going to have to make the big bucks and you're going to have to drop those big bucks on a home if you choose to buy or rent. Pacific Palisades is currently the second wealthiest and has the second most expensive homes on our list.

So, if you're looking for a true LA gem, look no further than Pacific Palisades.

There are many advantages to living in Los Angeles' seventh best neighborhood, Brentwood. For one, you have a better chance of having your bike stolen than getting mugged. This neighborhood only had 367 violent crimes recorded at the time of this report, making them the seventh safest on our list.

Secondly, Brentwood scored off the charts on our snackability scale with an emphasis on education and employment, too. So, if you're looking for a safe place to send your kids to school, walk your dog, and/or go to work, Brentwood delivers.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology and the Woodbine Park are two of the reasons why Palms is the eighth best neighborhood in Los Angeles, but they're not the only reasons.

Made up of Craftsman and Spanish Colonial style homes, the Palms neighborhood is another neighborhood that made our list with only 44,417 residents. It is also LA's 14th least dangerous.

Most people get to Palms via the 405 and the 10 freeways, but the coolest feature in this neighborhood is that you can get to it by LA's only rail line, the Metro Expo Line.

Not only is Sawtelle the ninth best neighborhood in Los Angeles, it is the largest neighborhood on our list in terms of population.

The Sawtelle neighborhood has a lot to be proud of: they moved up 12 spots to clinch the ninth place rank to live. The average home price is $781,023. If you know anything about California real estate, this is quite the victory.

Sawtell is also the eighth neighborhood to make our top ten list from LA's Westside. It's starting to make us wonder what they're putting in the water over there.

What happens when you mix people with great jobs, $113,367 as the average income, and $1,026,067 as the average home price? You get the tenth best neighborhood in Los Angeles for 2022, Century City.

Century City has the smallest population on our list with only 5,574 residents; but what they lack in numbers, they make up in chutzpah: they've had 51,255 property crimes recorded already this year.

On a lighter note, Century City is the second best neighborhood to find a job on our list. Must be all of that very important Tinseltown stuff happening there.