Best Neighborhoods in Whittier, CA

Friendly Hills is Whittier's spacious, club-centered hillside neighborhood. Large lots, mature landscaping and winding streets separate it from the compact postwar tracts below, while a private country club provides golf, tennis, pickleball and swimming at the center of the community's social life. The atmosphere is quiet, established and unmistakably residential. ... See Full Page

Mar Vista Heights is an outdoors-oriented hillside neighborhood where residential streets meet protected Puente Hills open space. Postwar homes climb from the flats toward trail gates, and several roads end near preserved habitat rather than another subdivision. The result feels quieter and more connected to the landscape than most of Whittier. ... See Full Page

Whittwood is an established postwar neighborhood organized around one of Whittier's main shopping centers. Single-family tract homes fill the flat interior streets, while Whittwood Town Center, Leffingwell Ranch Park and the branch library create a practical cluster of retail, recreation and community services along the edges. ... See Full Page

Uptown Whittier is the city's historic and social center, with old storefronts, Craftsman homes, civic buildings, parks and trail access all gathered around Greenleaf Avenue. It feels like a real downtown rather than a shopping complex, and the surrounding residential streets contain some of Whittier's oldest and most architecturally varied housing. ... See Full Page

Whittier Hills is the city's open-space neighborhood, where hillside homes sit beside thousands of acres of protected chaparral, canyon trails and wildlife habitat. Curving streets and cul-de-sacs climb toward Turnbull Canyon and Skyline Drive, trading the flat convenience of central Whittier for views, quiet and immediate access to the Puente Hills. ... See Full Page

Hadley Hills occupies the transition between Whittier's flat streets and the first rise of the Puente Hills. West of Alta Avenue, blocks remain fairly straight and level. Farther east, roads begin to curve, lots grow and homes pick up longer views. That gradual change gives the neighborhood variety without the remoteness of Whittier's higher hillside communities. ... See Full Page

Michigan Park is an established Whittier neighborhood where ordinary postwar streets sit beside some of the city's most significant historic sites and its largest recent redevelopment. Craftsman survivors, Spanish-style cottages and midcentury ranch homes create a varied residential fabric, while Whittier Boulevard places shopping and local landmarks close by. ... See Full Page