The 10 Best Glendale, CA Neighborhoods To Live In For 2019

Do you like your neighborhood?

Is it friendly, and where everyone knows their neighbors?

No matter if you live in the sticks or in an apartment building in downtown Glendale, you have a little pocket that you can call home. And each neighborhood is different.

Smaller neighborhoods usually have obvious benefits — less crime, a slower pace of life, and a lower cost of living. But not all Glendale neighborhoods are created equal. Some are better than others. But which ones?

Instead of relying on public opinion and speculation, we wanted to get the facts straight and find out which neighborhoods in Glendale are the best. If you’re in one of the places we’re about to highlight, odds are you know you’ve got it made.

Here are the best neighborhoods in Glendale for 2019:

1. El Miradero (Homes)
2. Verdugo Mountains (Homes)
3. Emerald Isle (Homes)
4. Verdugo Woodlands (Homes)
5. Oakmont (Homes)
6. Brockmont (Homes)
7. Whiting Woods (Homes)
8. Rancho San Rafael (Homes)
9. Sparr Heights (Homes)
10. Chevy Chase (Homes)

So what’s the best neighborhood to live in Glendale for 2019? According to the most recent census data, El Miradero looks to be the best Glendale neighborhood to live in.

Read on to see how we determined the places around Glendale that deserve a little bragging rights or maybe you’re interested in the worst neighborhoods in Glendale.

Once you’re done, you can look at the bottom of the story for a complete chart of every neighborhood we looked at from best to worst.

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How we determined the best Glendale hoods in 2019

In order to rank the best neighborhoods in Glendale, we had to determine what criteria defines a “best”.

Using crime, census, and extrapolated BLS data, we arrived at the following set of criteria:

• High incomes
• Low unemployment rates
• Low crime
• High home prices
• High population densities (A proxy for things to do)

We then ranked each neighborhood with scores from 1 to 37 in each category, where 1 was the best.

Next, we averaged the rankings for each neighborhood to create a best neighborhood index.

And finally, we crowned the neighborhood with the lowest best neighborhood index the “Best City Neighborhood In Glendale.” We’re lookin’ at you, El Miradero.

Read on below to learn more about what it’s like to live in the best places Glendale, California has to offer. Or skip to the end to see the list of all the neighborhoods in the city from best to worst.

The Verdugo Mountains are a small, rugged mountain range of the Transverse Ranges system, located just south of the western San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, Southern California. The range is sometimes known as the Verdugo Hills or simply the Verdugos.

Putting A Bow On Our Analysis Of The Best Neighborhoods In Glendale

If you’re measuring the neighborhoods in Glendale where crime is low and everyone wants to live, this is an accurate list.

As we mentioned earlier, the neighborhoods in Glendale aren’t all good. Tropico takes the title of the worst neighborhood to live in Glendale.

We ranked the neighborhoods from best to worst in the chart below.

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Detailed List Of The Best Neighborhoods To Live In Glendale For 2019