Rankings

Top neighbourhoods — Worldwide

The best-scoring suburbs by category. 99,219 neighbourhoods ranked. Worldwide overall rankings require at least four evidenced score dimensions.

🌍 All 🇿🇦 ZA 9,327 🇬🇧 UK 41,792 🇺🇸 USA 29,603 🇩🇪 DE 10,813 🇳🇱 NL 7,684

Overall

99,219 ranked

98851	ZIP 91214, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
98852	ZIP 91303, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
98853	ZIP 91343, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
98854	ZIP 91602, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
98855	ZIP 91711, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
98856	ZIP 91730, San Bernardino 🇺🇸 San Bernardino, California	39
98857	ZIP 91748, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
98858	ZIP 91762, San Bernardino 🇺🇸 San Bernardino, California	39
98859	ZIP 91803, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
98860	ZIP 91905, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
98861	ZIP 91945, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
98862	ZIP 92007, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
98863	ZIP 92064, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
98864	ZIP 92069, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
98865	ZIP 92075, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
98866	ZIP 92115, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
98867	ZIP 92116, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
98868	ZIP 92203, Riverside 🇺🇸 Riverside, California	39
98869	ZIP 92223, Riverside 🇺🇸 Riverside, California	39
98870	ZIP 92372, San Bernardino 🇺🇸 San Bernardino, California	39
98871	ZIP 92612, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
98872	ZIP 92627, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
98873	ZIP 92677, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
98874	ZIP 92697, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
98875	ZIP 92706, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
98876	ZIP 92833, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
98877	ZIP 92840, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
98878	ZIP 93004, Ventura 🇺🇸 Ventura, California	39
98879	ZIP 93035, Ventura 🇺🇸 Ventura, California	39
98880	ZIP 93041, Ventura 🇺🇸 Ventura, California	39

How these rankings are calculated

Rankings are sorted by the metric selected above — overall score, safety, schools or affordability — computed the same way for every suburb in our database, so the ordering reflects the underlying data rather than editorial judgement. Worldwide overall rankings require at least four evidenced dimensions so a thin profile cannot outrank a well-supported one. Country-specific pages retain partial profiles and label them clearly. Each individual metric is scored independently on its own 0-100 scale.

Safety scores for South African suburbs are built from official SAPS crime statistics at police-precinct level, weighted toward violent and property crime categories. International safety scores use the equivalent national source — data.police.uk reports in the UK, BKA and Landeskriminalamt statistics in Germany, and CBS data in the Netherlands.

School scores weigh the number and proximity of nearby primary and secondary schools, drawn from the Department of Basic Education's National Masterlist; affordability compares typical rent against local median household income. Filter by country or province above to compare rankings within a specific region, or open any suburb to see the full seven-dimension breakdown behind its rank.