Rankings

Top neighbourhoods — Worldwide

The best-scoring suburbs by category. 99,458 neighbourhoods ranked. Worldwide overall rankings require at least four evidenced score dimensions.

🌍 All 🇿🇦 ZA 9,327 🇬🇧 UK 42,028 🇺🇸 USA 29,606 🇩🇪 DE 10,813 🇳🇱 NL 7,684

Overall

99,458 ranked

99091	ZIP 91214, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99092	ZIP 91303, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99093	ZIP 91343, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99094	ZIP 91602, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99095	ZIP 91711, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99096	ZIP 91730, San Bernardino 🇺🇸 San Bernardino, California	39
99097	ZIP 91748, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99098	ZIP 91762, San Bernardino 🇺🇸 San Bernardino, California	39
99099	ZIP 91803, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99100	ZIP 91905, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
99101	ZIP 91945, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
99102	ZIP 92007, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
99103	ZIP 92064, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
99104	ZIP 92069, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
99105	ZIP 92075, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
99106	ZIP 92115, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
99107	ZIP 92116, San Diego 🇺🇸 San Diego, California	39
99108	ZIP 92203, Riverside 🇺🇸 Riverside, California	39
99109	ZIP 92223, Riverside 🇺🇸 Riverside, California	39
99110	ZIP 92372, San Bernardino 🇺🇸 San Bernardino, California	39
99111	ZIP 92612, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
99112	ZIP 92627, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
99113	ZIP 92677, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
99114	ZIP 92697, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
99115	ZIP 92706, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
99116	ZIP 92833, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
99117	ZIP 92840, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
99118	ZIP 93004, Ventura 🇺🇸 Ventura, California	39
99119	ZIP 93035, Ventura 🇺🇸 Ventura, California	39
99120	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.