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

99061	ZIP 89109, Clark 🇺🇸 Clark, Nevada	39
99062	ZIP 89117, Clark 🇺🇸 Clark, Nevada	39
99063	ZIP 89149, Clark 🇺🇸 Clark, Nevada	39
99064	ZIP 89183, Clark 🇺🇸 Clark, Nevada	39
99065	ZIP 90012, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99066	ZIP 90028, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99067	ZIP 90032, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99068	ZIP 90038, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99069	ZIP 90041, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99070	ZIP 90047, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99071	ZIP 90059, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99072	ZIP 90068, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99073	ZIP 90071, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99074	ZIP 90241, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99075	ZIP 90248, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99076	ZIP 90249, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99077	ZIP 90250, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99078	ZIP 90260, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99079	ZIP 90302, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99080	ZIP 90305, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99081	ZIP 90401, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99082	ZIP 90505, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99083	ZIP 90631, Orange 🇺🇸 Orange, California	39
99084	ZIP 90745, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99085	ZIP 90746, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99086	ZIP 90822, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99087	ZIP 91011, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99088	ZIP 91104, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99089	ZIP 91205, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California	39
99090	ZIP 91214, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, 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.