Best-Value Neighborhoods in Arcadia, CA

Upper Rancho is the Arcadia neighborhood right beside the Los Angeles County Arboretum, and the peafowl that wander out of the gardens treat its lawns as their own. The name comes from Lucky Baldwin's Rancho Santa Anita, and the estate-scale lots still carry some of that ranch-era sense of room. ... See Full Page

Arcadia Highlands climbs from the busy flats of Arcadia up toward the San Gabriel Mountains, and the higher you go, the quieter and steeper it gets. ... See Full Page

Santa Anita Oaks sits at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Arcadia, north of the 210, where wide streets run under old oaks and houses sit far back from the curb. Most of it was built out in the 1940s, and it reads more like a string of private estates than a subdivision. ... See Full Page

Baldwin Stocker is the quiet residential pocket of southwest Arcadia around the Baldwin Avenue and Duarte Road area, named for the elementary school and small park at its center. It sits just south of the city's busiest food corridor, close enough to walk for dinner but set back on residential streets. ... See Full Page

Peacock Village takes its name from the birds that stroll its streets, peafowl drifting over from the Los Angeles County Arboretum into front yards across this corner of west Arcadia. The neighborhood runs between Michillinda and Baldwin avenues, from Huntington Drive up to Colorado Street, and its curving layout feels different from the grid around it. ... See Full Page

Lower Rancho holds the two places that put Arcadia on the map, Santa Anita Park and the Los Angeles County Arboretum, and the homes around them share a backdrop of Art Deco grandstands, old gardens and the San Gabriel Mountains. ... See Full Page

Santa Anita Village is a postwar neighborhood on Arcadia's west side, south of Huntington Drive near Michillinda Avenue, and its main street corner has turned into one of the city's handiest little food stops. The houses behind it are low, steady and mid-century, which makes the busy plaza feel like a small downtown for the blocks around it. ... See Full Page

West Arcadia is where the city eats. The stretch of Baldwin Avenue running south from Westfield Santa Anita, crossed by Duarte Road and Naomi Avenue, holds one of the densest runs of Taiwanese, Cantonese, Sichuan and Japanese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley, and the Arcadia neighborhood around it lives with that energy every day. ... See Full Page

South Arcadia is the city's working, everyday side, where Live Oak Avenue lines up family restaurants, donut shops and supermarkets, and a public golf course and bike paths fill the southern edge. It feels more lived-in and less polished than north Arcadia, with errands, dinner and exercise all close together. ... See Full Page