2026 Top Cities by School Score in Los Angeles County

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Avocado Heights neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: River Access, Equestrian Lots, Avocado Heights Trail

The San Gabriel River forms the western edge of Avocado Heights, and a lot of daily life here leans toward that riverbank. Industry wraps around most of it, so the community reads as a pocket of homes set inside a much larger jobs district. The streets vary more by lot than by house. Some blocks ho ... See Full Page

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Culver City neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Ballona Creek, Sony Pictures, Downtown Dining

Culver City is a compact, oddly shaped town on the Westside of Los Angeles County, wedged between Palms, Mar Vista, Baldwin Hills and the 405. Unlike the Los Angeles neighborhoods around it, it runs its own buses, parks and pool, and its downtown pulls in diners from across the region. Downtown is ... See Full Page

West Hollywood neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Santa Monica Boulevard, Design District, Apartment Living

West Hollywood is its own city within Los Angeles County, bordered by Beverly Hills to the west, and its personality changes with each of the long boulevards that cross it. Walk a few blocks north or south and the whole tone of the place shifts. Santa Monica Boulevard, in the middle, is the everyda ... See Full Page

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View Park/Windsor Hills neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Park To Playa, Slauson Avenue, Baldwin Hills

View Park-Windsor Hills occupies the eastern shoulder of the Baldwin Hills, the ridge that rises out of the flat Crenshaw district and looks west toward the ocean. Los Angeles County governs it without a city layer, with Leimert Park downhill to the east and Ladera Heights and the big county park be ... See Full Page

Avalon neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Island Harbor Town, Car-Free Living, Avalon Canyon

Life in Avalon, the small harbor city that fills the settled end of Catalina, is organized around one curve of water and the hills that wrap it. The flat blocks behind the beach hold the hotels, shops and restaurants, all packed into a few walkable streets. Behind them, Avalon Canyon runs inland to ... See Full Page

Calabasas neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: The Commons, Las Virgenes Creek, Old Town

Calabasas sits at the western tip of the San Fernando Valley, where the 101 leaves Los Angeles and climbs into the oak-covered folds of the Santa Monica Mountains. Park Moderne, a late-1920s artists' colony with streets named for birds, hides behind the high school. Mulwood is a grid of one-story 1 ... See Full Page

Burbank neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Magnolia Park, Chandler Bikeway, Verdugo Mountains

Burbank is the studio town at the east end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. Griffith Park sits across the river and Glendale is next door, yet it runs as its own compact city, flat, orderly and busy on weekdays. Magnolia Park is the west side shopping street, full of vintage racks ... See Full Page

Alhambra neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Valley Boulevard, Downtown Alhambra, Period Revival Homes

Alhambra is where the San Gabriel Valley begins, the first Los Angeles County city you reach heading east from El Sereno on Valley Boulevard. Emery Park on the west side is a 1920s set piece of stucco, tile roofs and Storybook cottages, and Mayfair in the south holds a pocket of 1930s Tudors. Aroun ... See Full Page

Glendale neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Brand Park, Verdugo Mountains, Honolulu Avenue

Glendale wraps around the Verdugo Mountains between Burbank, Pasadena and the Los Angeles River, and its Los Angeles County ground runs from flat grid to steep canyon. A dense downtown of towers and shopping sits a few miles from canyon roads where deer cross the pavement, and it feels more self-con ... See Full Page

Los Angeles neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Griffith Park, San Fernando Valley, Grand Central Market

Los Angeles is a city you learn in pieces, one freeway exit at a time. Venice keeps its canals and car-free walk streets a block from the sand. Leimert Park gathers around a plaza where drummers and art walks fill the weekend, and Downtown stacks loft conversions and glass towers above the old thea ... See Full Page

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Beverly Hills neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Rodeo Drive, Beverly Gardens Park, Trousdale Estates

Beverly Hills is a small, self-governing city surrounded on nearly every side by Los Angeles, sitting on the Westside of Los Angeles County between West Hollywood, Century City and the Santa Monica Mountains. Down low, the Golden Triangle packs the shops, hotels and offices around Rodeo Drive. The ... See Full Page

Long Beach neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Beach Path, Historic Districts, Second Street

Long Beach is the big port city at the southern tip of Los Angeles County, where the Los Angeles River empties into San Pedro Bay and Orange County starts just across the San Gabriel River. It has its own downtown and its own working harbor, so it rarely acts like a suburb of anywhere. East along t ... See Full Page

Agoura Hills neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Kanan Road, Adobe Cantina, Ventura Freeway

Kanan Road is the street that ties Agoura Hills together, running from the shopping centers beside the Ventura Freeway south through the Santa Monica Mountains to the Malibu coast. Ranch houses and two-story tracts line looping streets north and south of the freeway, and most lots leave room for a ... See Full Page

Santa Monica neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Palisades Park, Main Street, Farmers Market

Santa Monica is a beach city of its own where Los Angeles County meets the Pacific, wrapped by the city of Los Angeles on three sides and the ocean on the fourth. Downtown mixes new apartment buildings with the Third Street Promenade and a steady flow of visitors. Ocean Park keeps its older cottage ... See Full Page

Lancaster neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: The BLVD, Antelope Valley, Prime Desert Woodland

Lancaster, the northernmost of Los Angeles County's big cities, is laid out on the flat floor of the Antelope Valley where the lettered avenues keep marching north to the county's edge. That main street is The BLVD, the part of Lancaster Boulevard the city rebuilt for people on foot in 2010. The ol ... See Full Page

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Whittier neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Uptown Whittier, Puente Hills Trails, Greenway Trail

Whittier backs right up against the Puente Hills in southeast Los Angeles County, and the green ridge behind town is the first thing you notice. Whittier Brewing Company pours in that core, with a food hall called Poet Gardens attached where several kitchens share the tables. La Monarca on Greenlea ... See Full Page

Signal Hill neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Oil Field Views, Rossmoor Pastries, Willow Street

Signal Hill is really two places stacked on top of each other, a commercial flatland ringing the base and a residential hill rising out of the middle. Down on the flats, Willow Street, Cherry Avenue and Spring Street carry big-box stores, auto businesses, strip centers and older bungalow blocks. Up ... See Full Page

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Malibu neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Zuma Beach, Pacific Coast Highway, Fire Rebuilding

Malibu runs for more than twenty miles along the western edge of Los Angeles County, a long, skinny city pinned between the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific. Pacific Coast Highway serves as its main street, and the town strings out along that road in a chain of beaches, canyon mouths and small ... See Full Page

Stevenson Ranch neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Planned Community, Towsley Canyon, Yamato

Stevenson Ranch is a planned hillside suburb west of Interstate 5, unincorporated and governed by Los Angeles County, facing the city of Santa Clarita across the freeway. It was drawn up as a single community in the 1980s, so the whole place has a consistent look, and it feels a little more tucked a ... See Full Page

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Palmdale neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Antelope Valley, Marie Kerr Park, Plant 42

Palmdale sits at the southern edge of the Antelope Valley, the first big desert city in Los Angeles County you reach after the Antelope Valley Freeway climbs out of Santa Clarita. Aerospace built the modern town, and Air Force Plant 42 on the north side, birthplace of the SR-71 and the B-2, still se ... See Full Page

Westlake Village neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Planned Town, County Line, Boccaccio's

Westlake Village is a planned town at the far western tip of Los Angeles County, still running the way its designers drew it, with a lake at the center, business parks near the freeway and homes arranged around greenbelts and oaks. Around the lake and along Lindero Canyon Road, the houses are the o ... See Full Page

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Willowbrook neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Drew University, Bilbrew Library, Metro Rail

Two Metro rail lines cross in Willowbrook, an unincorporated community in the South LA flatlands of Los Angeles County. The transfer station where they meet is how many people across the region first hear the name. Watts lies just to the north and Compton just below, while the 105 Freeway cuts acros ... See Full Page

Compton neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Richland Farms, A Line, Postwar Bungalows

Compton sits in the flat middle of Los Angeles County's south side, halfway between downtown Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, with freeways on nearly every edge. It is one of the county's oldest cities, and it still carries a detail from its founding that no neighbor can match. That piece is ... See Full Page

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Keywords: Pho Filet, Garvey Avenue Food, Industrial Core

South El Monte is a compact working city in the San Gabriel Valley, pressed between El Monte on its north side and the open parkland of the Whittier Narrows to the south. Few places in Los Angeles County mix machine shops, noodle houses and ranch houses on so few square miles, and that mix is the to ... See Full Page

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Manhattan Beach neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Walk Streets, Veterans Parkway, The Strand

Manhattan Beach is the northernmost of the South Bay's three beach cities, a small Los Angeles County town squeezed between the El Segundo refinery and Hermosa Beach. People here talk in sections rather than neighborhoods, and Sepulveda Boulevard splits those sections into a beach side and an east s ... See Full Page

Palos Verdes Estates neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Coastal Bluffs, Lunada Bay, Spanish Revival Homes

Palos Verdes Estates is where the flat beach towns of the South Bay run out and the cliffs begin. Drive south out of Redondo Beach and the road climbs into this small Los Angeles County city on the peninsula's northwest shoulder, a place planned a century ago so that open hillsides and undeveloped s ... See Full Page

San Marino neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: El Molino Viejo, Huntington Drive, Period Revival Homes

San Marino is a small, almost entirely residential city in the western San Gabriel Valley, part of Los Angeles County and set between Pasadena and San Gabriel. Homes change as you move east. The western and central streets filled in first, during the 1920s and 1930s, with Spanish Colonial, Monterey ... See Full Page

Rolling Hills neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Equestrian City, Palos Verdes, Crest Road Views

Rolling Hills is what the Palos Verdes Peninsula looked like before the shopping centers arrived, a whole Los Angeles County city kept rural on purpose. Residents incorporated it in 1957, and the same developer, A.E. Hanson, later shaped Hidden Hills in the San Fernando Valley on a similar horse-cou ... See Full Page

Rolling Hills Estates neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Equestrian Suburb, Peninsula Shopping, Botanic Garden

Rolling Hills Estates sits in the green interior of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, one of the few cities up here with no stretch of coastline. That inland position made it the everyday Los Angeles County hub for the peninsula, where people from all four cities end up for groceries, a haircut or dinner. ... See Full Page

Hidden Hills neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Horse Properties, Gated Lanes, Simi Hills

In Hidden Hills the city limit and the front gate are the same line, and that single fact explains most of what daily life is like here. Once past the gate, Hidden Hills has nothing to buy. No store, office or restaurant operates in town, so the whole place is homes, horse paths and quiet lanes wit ... See Full Page

La Crescenta-Montrose neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Crescenta Valley, Korean Food, Le Mesnager Barn

La Crescenta-Montrose is a county-run foothill area in Los Angeles County, one that plenty of drivers pass through on the 210 without realizing it has a name of its own. The freeway works as the town's dividing line. North of it, La Crescenta's streets sit on a diagonal grid that keeps climbing unt ... See Full Page

Westfield/Academy Hills neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Unincorporated Peninsula, Crenshaw Boulevard, Hillside Homes

Crenshaw Boulevard runs south for miles out of central Los Angeles and finishes its trip by climbing into the hills through Westfield and Academy Hills. The area is mostly two things. A private school campus, Chadwick School, occupies the high ground and shapes the traffic around it. The rest is qu ... See Full Page

El Segundo neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Beach Town, Aerospace Hub, Marvin Braude Trail

El Segundo is a small beach town with a giant office district attached to its east side. Wedged into the Los Angeles County coast from the airport south to Manhattan Beach, it has the feel of a village on weekends and the energy of a major employment center on weekdays, when aerospace engineers and ... See Full Page

Hermosa Beach neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Beach City, Beach Volleyball, Walk Streets

Squeezed between Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach is the smallest and most casual of the three South Bay beach cities, a surf and volleyball town that never fully dressed up. It covers barely more than a square mile of Los Angeles County coastline, so almost every home is within a bi ... See Full Page

La Canada Flintridge neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Foothill Boulevard, Lanterman House, Angeles Crest

La Canada Flintridge, a small hillside city, sits in Los Angeles County between Pasadena and Glendale at the point where the 210 and the 2 freeways meet. It is the last town before the Angeles Crest Highway climbs into the San Gabriels, and the mountains fill the view at the top of nearly every stre ... See Full Page

La Verne neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Old Town, Antigua Bread, A Line Station

La Verne is a college town wrapped around an old railroad downtown, on Los Angeles County's east flank, with San Dimas on one side and Claremont on the other. Orange groves shaped the place before houses did, and two of them still grow at the Heritage Park off Via De Mansion. The middle of town is ... See Full Page

Rancho Palos Verdes neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Nature Preserve, Point Vicente Bluffs, Coastal Hillsides

Residents of the peninsula's southern slopes formed Rancho Palos Verdes in the early 1970s mostly to keep bulldozers off the hills, and the city still looks like the result. Eastview, along Western Avenue, sits close to San Pedro and shops there. Miraleste tucks houses into wooded canyons on the ea ... See Full Page

South Pasadena neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: 710 Freeway Fight, Arroyo Seco, Historic Homes

South Pasadena is a small city squeezed between Pasadena, Highland Park, Alhambra and San Marino, and it has spent decades defending that size. The Los Angeles County town famously fought off a plan to push the 710 Freeway through its neighborhoods, and the victory left its old houses and big street ... See Full Page

Redondo Beach neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: King Harbor, Riviera Village, North Redondo

Redondo Beach is the South Bay beach town with a harbor at its center, a Los Angeles County city running from the Palos Verdes cliffs north toward the airport side of the bay. King Harbor's marinas, yacht clubs and horseshoe-shaped pier give the waterfront the feel of a small port, with boats and re ... See Full Page

Arcadia neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Santa Anita Park, County Arboretum, Baldwin Avenue

Arcadia spreads south from the San Gabriel Mountains on the east side of Pasadena, its Los Angeles County streets laid over Lucky Baldwin's old Rancho Santa Anita. His land became the Santa Anita racetrack and the county Arboretum, and the peafowl he brought in the 1870s still walk the lawns and roo ... See Full Page

San Dimas neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Via Verde, San Dimas Station, Klatch Coffee

San Dimas is a town split by freeways, sitting where the 210 and the 57 come together below the San Gabriel Mountains in eastern Los Angeles County. Glendora borders it on the west and La Verne on the east, and the pieces of town on either side of the interchange feel noticeably different. North of ... See Full Page

Sierra Madre neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Foothill Village, Sierra Madre Playhouse, Baldwin Avenue

Sierra Madre calls itself the Village of the Foothills, and the name fits better than most civic slogans. Life in this small Los Angeles County town runs on a calendar of homegrown events, from a spring flower festival to a Fourth of July parade to a footrace up the old Mount Wilson Trail. Below th ... See Full Page

Castaic neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Castaic Road, Castaic Lake, Takuma Ramen

Castaic is the last stop in the Santa Clarita Valley before Interstate 5 begins its long climb north over the mountains, and it grew up as a freeway town with a reservoir attached, up where Los Angeles County runs out to the northwest. East of I-5, planned subdivisions from the 1980s through the 20 ... See Full Page

Diamond Bar neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Diamond Bar Center, Grand View Trail, Mandarin Taste

Diamond Bar fills the hilly southeast corner of Los Angeles County's San Gabriel Valley, right where the county line meets Orange County to the south and San Bernardino County to the east. Brea and Chino Hills sit just over those lines, and Walnut and Rowland Heights border it on the north and west. ... See Full Page

Glendora neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Glendora Public Market, Citrus College, Kamden Coffee

Glendora lines up along the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in eastern Los Angeles County, the foothill city between Azusa and San Dimas, with Covina and Charter Oak below it to the south. Route 66 and Arrow Highway cross it east to west, and each carries a different slice of the city's shopping. ... See Full Page

La Habra Heights neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Puente Hills Preserve, Equestrian Trails, Rural Hillside

Above the flat grid of La Habra, the road climbs into La Habra Heights, a rural hill city at the eastern end of the Puente Hills on the Los Angeles County side of the Orange County line. Houses sit on parcels of an acre or more, and the mix runs from mid-century ranch homes to large custom builds, ... See Full Page

La Mirada neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Orange County Border, Ranch Homes, Imperial Highway

La Mirada is the last Los Angeles County city many drivers pass on the 5 before Orange County begins, and its identity is tied to that edge. Buena Park, Fullerton and La Habra sit right across the line, so a trip to the grocery store or a restaurant can easily cross county borders without anyone not ... See Full Page

Monrovia neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Aztec Hotel, Jake's Roadhouse, Foothill Views

Monrovia climbs from the flat commercial blocks of Huntington Drive up to the canyon mouths of the San Gabriel Mountains, and the whole Los Angeles County city makes more sense once you follow that slope. Drive north from the old Route 66 and the housing ages as the ground rises. Midcentury ranch h ... See Full Page

Northeast San Gabriel neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Unincorporated Pocket, Fairview Avenue, Log Cabin Steakhouse

Ask someone from Northeast San Gabriel where they live and you'll probably hear the name of a neighboring town first. This unincorporated patch of Los Angeles County fills the spaces left between East Pasadena, Arcadia, Temple City and San Gabriel, and it has no city hall or downtown to call its own ... See Full Page

Santa Monica Mountains neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Topanga Library, Mulholland Highway, Canyon Hamlets

Topanga Canyon Boulevard in the east and Mulholland Highway winding west toward the Ventura County line do most of the work in the Santa Monica Mountains. Topanga is the busiest of them, with a small village center of cafes, shops and a county library in a canyon still known for artists and owner-b ... See Full Page

Saugus (unincorporated) neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Unincorporated Saugus, Copper Hill Drive, Oak Woodland

Saugus is best known as a Santa Clarita neighborhood, but a narrow strip carrying the same name lies outside the city along the lower canyons to the north, under Los Angeles County rather than city government. A manufactured-home community fronts Bouquet Canyon Road, and around it are houses on big ... See Full Page

Saugus/Canyon Country neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Small Ranches, Private Open Space, Via Princessa

Most Santa Clarita drivers have looked up at the hills between Saugus and Canyon Country, the brown and green ridges visible from Bouquet Canyon Road on one side and Sierra Highway on the other. They form a block of Los Angeles County territory outside city limits that the city grew around rather th ... See Full Page

Walnut neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Mt. SAC Relays, Suzanne Park, Aroma Craft Coffee

Walnut shares borders with eight other communities in Los Angeles County, from West Covina and La Puente to Pomona and Diamond Bar, yet it keeps a lower profile than almost any of them. Mt. San Antonio College covers a wide campus off Grand Avenue and employs more people than anyone else in town. E ... See Full Page

Bradbury neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Rural Tranquility, Equestrian Trails, Angeles National Forest

Bradbury's city motto is Preserving Rural Tranquility, and the town takes it literally. This Los Angeles County city covers less than two square miles at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, with the Angeles National Forest rising directly above its upper streets and Monrovia and Duarte wrapped ar ... See Full Page

East Whittier neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Leffingwell Road, Puente Hills, Whittier Greenway

East Whittier is small and unincorporated, a Los Angeles County patch east of Whittier proper, close to where the city gives way to La Mirada. It covers only about a square mile, and most people who live nearby would have trouble saying exactly where the county land stops and the city begins. The s ... See Full Page

La Verne (unincorporated) neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: County Golf Course, Fourth Street Mill, Marshall Canyon

Nearly all of unincorporated La Verne is given over to recreation, a strip of Los Angeles County foothills above the city's northern tracts. It holds a regional park, a public golf course and trail access into the canyons, and very little else. Riders, hikers and mountain bikers all use the same ca ... See Full Page

Temple City neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Las Tunas Drive, Fika Fika Coffee, Small Lot Homes

Temple City is a flat, compact grid of small lots near the center of the San Gabriel Valley, and nearly everyone gives directions by one crossroads, Rosemead Boulevard at Las Tunas Drive. Arcadia, San Gabriel and Rosemead border it within Los Angeles County, and it has a smaller, more homespun scale ... See Full Page

Valencia (unincorporated) neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Highway 126, Mentryville, New Construction

Highway 126 peels off Interstate 5 toward Ventura County right at the edge of unincorporated Valencia, a Los Angeles County strip along the freeway's west side across from the city of Santa Clarita. Up the slopes to the west, a large master-planned community is being built out in phases, so a new r ... See Full Page

Monterey Park neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Garvey Avenue, Garvey Ranch Observatory, Heritage Falls Park

A tiled waterfall spills down a hillside off Atlantic Boulevard, the leftover of a 1920s plan to build an east side rival to Bel-Air, and it says a lot about Monterey Park. Ramona Acres, the first subdivision, and the blocks around Garfield and Garvey mix early houses, postwar builds and apartments ... See Full Page

Bouquet Canyon neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Bouquet Falls, Spunky Canyon Road, Sierra Pelona

Bouquet Canyon is a long, narrow corridor of creek bottom and national forest that climbs from the top of Santa Clarita's northern suburbs into the Sierra Pelona. Living up here means choosing a stretch of it. The lower miles, closer to town, feel like the rural fringe of the valley. Higher up, hou ... See Full Page

Canyon Country (unincorporated) neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Unincorporated Canyon Country, Tractor Supply, Vasquez Canyon Road

Canyon Country comes in two versions, and the unincorporated one is the ring of county land wrapped around the Santa Clarita neighborhood of the same name, in the northeast corner of the valley. Outside the Santa Clarita city limits, Los Angeles County itself governs the canyon mouths and hillsides ... See Full Page

Cerritos neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Performing Arts Center, Lunasia Dim Sum, Planned Suburb

On a Saturday, a good share of southeast Los Angeles County ends up in Cerritos for something, whether it is a car, a concert or a pair of shoes. The planning shows everywhere. Residential tracts went up quickly around 1970, when pastures were subdivided almost overnight, so most homes are one- and ... See Full Page

Glendora (unincorporated) neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Big Dalton Canyon, Colby Trail, San Gabriel Foothills

Most of unincorporated Glendora is canyon, chaparral and steep ground in the San Gabriel foothills of Los Angeles County, with only a scattering of private homes along its lower edges. The city streets stop at its boundary, and above that line the land belongs mostly to the county and to federal for ... See Full Page

Val Verde neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Resort History, Valencia Town Center, Hill Town

Val Verde is a hill town with a long memory. The community sits on unincorporated Los Angeles County land in the northwest corner of the Santa Clarita Valley, a few miles west of the freeway and Six Flags Magic Mountain, and in the decades before civil rights law it was one of the few Southern Calif ... See Full Page

Claremont (unincorporated) neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Wilderness Park, California Botanic Garden, Palmer Canyon

Look north from almost any street in the college town and the brushy slopes on the skyline belong to unincorporated Claremont. Beyond the city limits, the Los Angeles County land here is steep, largely roadless foothill country climbing from the top of the city toward the San Gabriel peaks. Palmer ... See Full Page

East Pasadena neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: East Colorado Boulevard, Yang Chow, Chapman Woods

East Pasadena is a county-run stretch of Los Angeles County that most visitors assume belongs to its famous neighbor, since it shares the name and the same wall of San Gabriel Mountains on the horizon. Colorado Boulevard, Foothill Boulevard and Rosemead Boulevard, which doubles as State Route 19, a ... See Full Page

Placerita Canyon neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Movie Ranch, Canyon Road, Old Town Newhall

Film crews, hikers and horse owners all share the same two-lane road in Placerita Canyon. This rural canyon, unincorporated and under Los Angeles County rule, opens off the Antelope Valley Freeway just east of Newhall, and shortly past the on-ramp the stucco of Santa Clarita gives way to creekside o ... See Full Page

West Chatsworth neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Oat Mountain, Chatsworth Reservoir, Hillside Parcels

Few people live in West Chatsworth, and the land makes the reason obvious. This unincorporated band of Los Angeles County covers the steep sandstone country between the Chatsworth city streets and the Ventura County line, where the Santa Susana Pass carries the 118 freeway over to Simi Valley. Home ... See Full Page

Agua Dulce neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Reyes Winery, High Desert, Maria Bonita

Agua Dulce is a high-desert wine and horse town in the northern hills of Los Angeles County, strung along Sierra Highway where the drive from Santa Clarita to Palmdale leaves the suburbs behind. Canyon Country lies to the south and Acton to the north, and this community keeps a looser, more open lay ... See Full Page

Artesia neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Little India, Vegetarian Thali, South Street

Artesia can be crossed by car in a few minutes, yet this small southeast Los Angeles County city pulls in diners from Orange County, the South Bay and the San Gabriel Valley every weekend. Rather than distinct neighborhoods, the variety comes street by street. Pioneer Boulevard around 186th Street ... See Full Page

Covina (Charter Oak) neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Charter Oak Unified, Taqueria Poncitlan, Arrow Highway

Charter Oak is defined as much by its school district as by any map line, an unincorporated place that Los Angeles County governs, set between Covina, Glendora and San Dimas. Most homes in Charter Oak are single-story houses on flat, regular blocks, broken up by apartment buildings and a couple of ... See Full Page

Covina (unincorporated) neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Hillside Streets, Bonelli Regional Park, Raging Waters

Drivers on the 10 pass unincorporated Covina without knowing it, though plenty of them notice the giant mosaic on the hillside at Forest Lawn Covina Hills. Homes carry Covina mailing addresses, but roads, parks and permits run through the county. The residential part is compact, a few hillside stre ... See Full Page

East Covina neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Ranch Tracts, Sunkist Park, Suburban Streets

Most of what people call East Covina is ranch-house country, block after block of postwar homes spreading from Covina's old downtown toward the Glendora and San Dimas lines. The blocks nearest Citrus Avenue feel like an extension of the older city, with smaller lots and a few earlier houses. Moving ... See Full Page

Leona Valley neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Cherry Orchards, Bouquet Canyon Road, Horse Property

Leona Valley is the quiet back way between Palmdale and the Santa Clarita side of Los Angeles County, a long slot of orchards and horse pasture where Elizabeth Lake Road and Bouquet Canyon Road meet. The valley changes as you drive through it. Orchards and small vineyard blocks share the flats with ... See Full Page

Marina del Rey neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: Harbor Town, Admiralty Way, Paddleboarding

Marina del Rey is Los Angeles County's own harbor town, a waterfront the county dug, still owns and still runs. Venice borders it on one side and Playa del Rey on the other, and while the addresses and the pace feel like the Westside, the landlord behind nearly every building is the county itself. ... See Full Page

San Francisquito Canyon/Bouquet Canyon neighborhoods ranked by schools

Keywords: San Francisquito Canyon, Bouquet Reservoir, Pacific Crest Trail

San Francisquito Canyon and its eastern neighbor, Bouquet Canyon, form the backcountry wedge of Los Angeles County between Saugus and the Antelope Valley. Both roads leave the last cul-de-sacs of Santa Clarita behind and climb into the Sierra Pelona, coming out near Green Valley, Elizabeth Lake and ... See Full Page

South San Gabriel neighborhoods ranked by schools