Best-Value Neighborhoods in Culver City, CA

Park West is a walkable pocket of Culver City where 1940s bungalows and Spanish-style houses sit a few blocks from Culver City High School and a short, busy stretch of Sepulveda Boulevard restaurants. It has a small-town feel for somewhere so central, with coffee, dinner and a gym all reachable on foot. ... See Full Page

Jefferson takes its name from the boulevard that runs through it, and this part of Culver City sits where the flatlands meet the Baldwin Hills. A skate park, a dog park and the city's biggest hillside park sit at its back door, a little more than a mile below downtown. ... See Full Page

Carlson Park gave Park East its other name, and the small green square at the middle still sets the tone for this Culver City neighborhood between Overland Avenue and downtown. The land was a racetrack before it was a park, and a few streets around it still bend along the curve of the old speedway. ... See Full Page

Studio Village is a quiet grid of ranch houses in Culver City, set between Culver Boulevard and Jefferson Boulevard and built around Lindberg Park. The Studio Drive-In screened films across the street from 1948 until 1993, and the neighborhood still carries the studio-era name. ... See Full Page

Blanco-Culver Crest joins two very different parts of Culver City, the flat blocks around Blanco Park and the Culver Crest hillside, where homes look out toward the ocean, Palos Verdes and downtown Los Angeles. Most people pass it on Sepulveda Boulevard without realizing there are winding hillside streets just above. ... See Full Page

Fox Hills fills the southwest corner of Culver City, a triangle of condo and apartment complexes wrapped around the shopping center many locals still call the Fox Hills Mall. ... See Full Page

Lucerne-Higuera is the Culver City neighborhood where small older houses sit a few blocks from some of the most unusual office buildings in Los Angeles. ... See Full Page

McManus sits at the eastern tip of Culver City, where the Arts District stretches along Washington Boulevard toward La Cienega. Galleries and small restaurants line the boulevard, and a few blocks off it Syd Kronenthal Park marks the starting point of the Ballona Creek Bike Path. ... See Full Page

Sunkist Park is a compact Culver City neighborhood of postwar single-family houses, fenced in by Sepulveda Boulevard, Ballona Creek and Mesmer Avenue near the spot where the 405 meets the 90. Once you turn off Sepulveda the traffic drops away fast, and the grid of flat, quiet streets feels farther from the freeways than it is. ... See Full Page

McLaughlin is a small residential grid on the west side of Culver City, and it's the neighborhood where Tito's Tacos has been handing hard-shell tacos across the counter on Washington Place since 1959. The streets behind the busy corners stay calm, with a steady run of houses on similar lots. ... See Full Page

Blair Hills sits on the ridge above downtown Culver City, and its best feature is the view. From the upper streets you can look across the Los Angeles Basin to the Hollywood Hills, and on a clear day out to the ocean, with parkland spilling down the slopes on several sides. ... See Full Page

Washington Boulevard is the spine of Clarkdale, on the west side of Culver City, where a Danish bakery, a coffee bar and a couple of old neighborhood bars share a few short blocks. ... See Full Page

Downtown Culver City is where the city's movie history and its restaurant scene sit on the same few blocks. The Sony Pictures lot, once MGM, runs along Washington Boulevard, the neon sign of the Kirk Douglas Theatre lights up Culver Boulevard, and the brick flatiron Culver Hotel still has live music on weekend nights. ... See Full Page

Culver West sits on the far side of the 405 from the rest of Culver City, where the ocean breeze reaches earlier and Washington Boulevard turns into a long restaurant row. It feels closer to Mar Vista and Del Rey than to downtown Culver City, and the beach is often a shorter trip than the city center. ... See Full Page

Veterans Memorial Park is the big green center of Washington Culver, the Culver City neighborhood that runs along Overland Avenue between Washington and Venice boulevards. Its mix of a city park, a strip of Brazilian shops and the Culver Center plaza gives it more day-to-day errands than most residential pockets nearby. ... See Full Page