HoodEx has analyzed 25 neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California, United States. The average livability score across Los Angeles is 6.4/10, measured across nature, community, housing, connectivity and quality of daily life. Pacific Palisades currently ranks highest at 8.7/10. Compare every analyzed area below, or run your own AI report for any Los Angeles address.
Los Angeles occupies a broad coastal basin backed by mountains and opening to the Pacific, with a dry Mediterranean climate and a sprawling grid threaded by freeways and major boulevards. The city is a patchwork of distinct neighborhoods, from coastal Pacific Palisades and Venice to inland Panorama City and Warner Center, each with its own housing stock and street character. The measurements are strongest for networks and weakest for nature, so transport and walkability exceed greenery and environmental quality across the city. Shells vary most between areas, making the physical condition and type of housing the clearest difference from one address to another. Whether in the flat districts of Van Nuys and Northridge, the hills of Hollywood or Los Feliz, or the denser corridors of Koreatown and Downtown, residents navigate a landscape of wide roads where neighborhood identity shifts block by block.
Across the 25 measured areas HoodEx has mapped in Los Angeles, the average livability score is 6.4 out of 10 — solid. That places Los Angeles 22nd of the 26 cities measured so far, 0.6 below the 7.0 average across those cities.
The highest-scoring area is Pacific Palisades at 8.7/10; the lowest is Florence at 4.4/10. A gap of 4.3 points across one city is large — in Los Angeles the address matters more than the city does. 5 of the 25 areas score 7 or better, and 2 sit below 5.
Averaged across Los Angeles: nature 5.5, anthropos 6.3, shells 5.6, society 6.2 and networks 7.9, each out of 10.
Los Angeles's strongest dimension is networks — transport and walkability — at 7.9/10, in line with the 7.8 average for that pillar. The weakest is nature — greenery and environmental quality — at 5.5/10, in line with the 5.6 average. Those two are the shape of the city: what it gives you everywhere, and what you have to hunt for.
The score that swings most from one Los Angeles area to the next is shells: 3.0/10 in Florence, 9.0/10 in Pacific Palisades — a spread of 6.0 points. In practice that means what you are actually renting or buying is the thing your choice of address actually decides here.
By contrast networks moves by only 3.7 points across the whole city, so it is close to a constant: worth knowing about Los Angeles, but not worth paying extra for one street over another.
Within United States, HoodEx has measured 2 cities, averaging 6.6/10. Los Angeles is 0.2 below the 6.6 average for the country, 2nd of the 2.
No single area wins on everything, so it is worth knowing which one leads on the thing you care about. In Los Angeles that is most green space: Pacific Palisades (8.5/10 nature), best connected: Downtown (9.7/10 networks), strongest community life: Pacific Palisades (9.5/10 society) and best housing stock: Pacific Palisades (9.0/10 shells).
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Every HoodEx neighborhood is scored from 0 to 10 across five dimensions drawn from the Ekistics framework for human settlements. Scores are generated by AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets, then blended into a single overall livability score.
HoodEx has analyzed 25 neighborhoods in Los Angeles. New areas are added whenever someone runs an analysis for a local address.
The average overall livability score across analyzed Los Angeles neighborhoods is 6.4/10, blended from our five scoring categories — 0.6 below the 7.0 average across the 26 cities HoodEx has measured.
Pacific Palisades currently has the highest overall livability score in Los Angeles at 8.7/10, 4.3 points ahead of the lowest-scoring measured area, Florence (4.4/10).
Pacific Palisades scores highest on nature in Los Angeles at 8.5/10, covering green space, air and water quality and natural features. The city average for nature is 5.5/10.
Downtown leads on networks — transit access, road connectivity, walkability and reaching everyday destinations — at 9.7/10, against a Los Angeles average of 7.9/10.
Shells varies most across Los Angeles — a spread of 6.0 points between Florence (3.0/10) and Pacific Palisades (9.0/10). That makes what you are actually renting or buying the thing your address decides here, while networks is close to constant citywide (3.7 points).
HoodEx has measured 2 cities in United States, averaging 6.6/10. Los Angeles is 0.2 below the 6.6 average, ranking 2nd of the 2.
Every neighborhood is scored 0–10 across five categories — Nature, Anthropos, Shells, Society and Networks — using AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets. The five category scores are blended into a single overall livability score.
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Scores update as new analyses are run and community feedback comes in. Each individual neighborhood page shows when it was last updated.