Published fit 58 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the San Diego table. Your current weights score this 56.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · SDPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Oct 2026. ACS and SDPD retrieved 2026-10-14; OSM retrieved 2026-10-14. Editorial copy last revised Sep 2026.
A north-inland plan of 77,845 people. Rent is $2,756. Violent Part I is 1.7 per 1,000 and property is 9.6. Income is $132,721. It is houses and errands, not a beach night. The coast is a drive.
Default walkable weights, $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same axes as the city table and the FAQ.
Safety
95
131 violent · 746 property · 11.3 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)+45 vs city set
Schools
50
Limited school data0 vs city set
Walk
40
OSM: 28 groceries · 28 cafes · 167 transit · 103 parks+16 vs city set
Cost
91
$2,756 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget-5 vs city set
Vibe
30
OSM: 28 cafes · 195 restaurants · 11 bars · 103 parks+9 vs city set
Commute to work
From Mira Mesa, a typical weekday is 28 min to Downtown, 12 min to UTC, 18 min to Mission Valley. Not live traffic.
UTC is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Downtown
28 min
Civic Center, Gaslamp · +11 min vs the city-set median
UTC
12 min
University City, the campus · -7 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Mission Valley
18 min
Malls, the stadium · +3 min vs the city-set median
Minutes are baked from neighborhood geography to three job centers — not Google, not this hour’s traffic.
Cost of living
The ACS median rent is $2,756 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 25% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($133K) could “afford” about $3,318 a month at 30% of pay.
46% of households rent. Median home value is $883,680.
ACS median rent
$2,756
30% income budget
$3,318
Rent / income
25%
Median home
$883,680
Rent since 2014
ACS 5-year median gross rent for San Diego city. Up 70% since 2014. Mira Mesa is 19% above the 2024 city median.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Census does not publish a rent series for each official neighborhood, so the line is the city place. The dashed mark is this area’s ACS 2024 median.
HUD treats 30% of income as the cost-burden line. We do not split ACS rent into 1-bed vs 2-bed. Method.
Within a walk
Within a short walk of this official community planning area: 28 groceries, 28 cafes, 103 parks, and 167 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 103 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (167 stops or stations).
28 cafes and 195 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the San Diego set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 18 of the other 19 areas in this city.
Population
77,845
Median age
37
Median income
$133K
Renters
46%
Bachelor+
53%
Violent / 1k
1.7
Property / 1k
9.6
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 16 census tracts · SDPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM 2026-10-14
Family streets
Crime is SDPD Part I reports per 1,000 ACS residents — not a judgment of who lives here. Home and rent figures are ACS medians, not live MLS. Read the method.
On the ground
What it is like to live here, beyond the scores.
A north-inland plan of 77,845 people. Rent is $2,756. Violent Part I is 1.7 per 1,000 and property is 9.6. Income is $132,721. It is houses and errands, not a beach night. The coast is a drive.
Scores on this page stay inside San Diego. Mira Mesa is the official community planning area; other names are searches, not extra polygons. School ratings are not in this snapshot. A neighbor on the schematic map is not a shared fence. SDPD counts are the department's FBI violent and property flags — Part I homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, plus burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Arson is not in those flags. Police beats are not this map.
Compiled from Zillow neighborhood guides, 5280 Magazine, Chicago and San Francisco resident guides, Mpls With Love, Eastside LA reporting, Seattle Times coverage, Boston planning-neighborhood writing, Philadelphia neighborhood writing, Portland neighborhood writing, Washington neighborhood-cluster writing, San Diego community-plan writing, and local writing, 2025–2026. Editorial — not part of the fit score.
On Reddit
Public posts from r/sandiego that mention this neighborhood. Not Nextdoor, not people on this block, and not part of the fit score.
No r/sandiego posts in this snapshot mentioned Mira Mesa.
Mira Mesa sits on the quieter side of this San Diego map (safety 95 vs city 50). SDPD logged 1.7 violent and 9.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 11.3 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
What is rent in Mira Mesa?+−
ACS median rent is $2,756 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 46% of households rent. Median home value is $883,680. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Is Mira Mesa walkable?+−
Walk is 40 here vs 24 for the San Diego set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 28 groceries, 28 cafes, 167 transit stops, 103 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
Is Mira Mesa good for families?+−
The scores lean family relative to this city set. Nearby school rating is thin in this dataset. Median age is 37. That rating is not your assigned campus.
How long is the commute from Mira Mesa?+−
28 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
How many people live in Mira Mesa?+−
About 77,845 people. Median income $133K. 53% have a bachelor's or higher.
What neighborhoods are next to Mira Mesa?+−
University, Carmel Valley, Clairemont sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official community planning areas, start with Mira Mesa vs University.
Next door
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the San Diego table. Distances here are not street geography.
UTC and University City are the searches. UCSD sits in this plan, not in the coast village. The official name is University. Median age is 31.7, so this is not a dorm census. Bachelor's share is 76% and rent is $2,728. Cafes are 51 and bars are 3. Property Part I is 22.3 per 1,000 — the malls and the offices write a lot of that. The park count is canyon and campus pieces, not a shop on every block. Violent is 1.5.
The official plan is Clairemont Mesa. 78,255 people, houses and canyons, 42% renters. Rent is $2,312. Violent Part I is 2.1 per 1,000. It is a drive to the water and a shorter hop to the valley offices.
Highest income in this set, $199,791, and the highest rent, $3,374. Violent Part I is 0.4 per 1,000, the lowest here. Property is 5.7, also the lowest. Bachelor's share is 83%. OSM transit stops in or near the plan: 4. Houses and a drive. This is not the coast village.
Adams Avenue is the search. The official plan is Mid-City: Normal Heights. Rent is $1,888, one of the lower central medians, and the home median is $778,085. Violent Part I is 4.6 per 1,000. A small grid, not a campus.
Talmadge is the other name on the same line. The official plan is Mid-City: Kensington-Talmadge. Houses and a canyon, not a strip. The home median is $1,265,367. Rent is $2,002. Violent Part I is 5.1 per 1,000.