The Best Neighborhoods in Arlington Heights — Ranked by People Who Sell Them

"What's the best neighborhood in Arlington Heights?" is the wrong question — the right one is best for what. Best schools walkability? Best dollar-per-square-foot? Best odds of a $1M+ resale in ten years? Below, our honest picks by category, with recent sale data and a link to our full guide for each.

Best all-around: the classics

Scarsdale is the name that moves the most homes in town — a median around $695K with sales stretching past $1.5M. Curving streets, mature elms, and the closest thing Arlington Heights has to a signature neighborhood. Its sibling Scarsdale Estates is the luxury tier: current listings run $899K–$1.8M.

Ivy Hill and Ivy Hill East anchor the north side around their namesake elementary school — medians in the $600s, with renovated homes reaching $750K and beyond. The school-day sidewalk traffic tells you everything about why families target it.

Best for walk-to-downtown living

Downtown Arlington Heights — the Metra, the restaurants, Arlington Alfresco street dining all summer — is the town's superpower, and three historic neighborhoods put it on foot: Recreation Park (current listings $699K–$750K), Pioneer Park (from the $480s to $1.55M), and Stonegate (median $665K), the stately east-side classic. Vintage architecture, real front porches, and the strongest long-term demand in town.

Best value: more house per dollar

Berkley Square (median $485K), Westgate (median $491K on eight sales), Hasbrook (from the high $300s), and Northwest Highlands (sales in the low $400s) are where budgets stretch furthest. None of these are compromises — they're the same schools and the same town, minus the premium zip-code pricing of the north side.

Best for new and newer construction

Arlington Market (M/I-built, sales $715K–$815K) is the town's most recent large development, and Terramere (median $680K) offers the 1980s version on the far north side. And watch the rebuild corridors: Pinegate and Arlington Farms both posted sales from the $300s alongside $1.5M+ new builds — original owners are sitting on land value, and buyers can pick their price point.

Best luxury blocks

Beyond Scarsdale Estates: Sherwood (listings $879K–$1.3M), Virginia Terrace (two sales last year at $1.25M and $1.6M), and Arlington Knolls (last sale $1.255M). These are the streets where teardowns became estates a decade ago and the trees did the rest. And one street-level tip from our showings: Forrest Avenue, where oversized lots back Rolling Green Country Club, quietly commands some of the biggest numbers in town.

The honest caveats

Two things the rankings can't capture. First, school boundaries split neighborhoods — the same subdivision can feed different elementaries block by block, so verify every address (our District 25 and HSD 214 guides explain the patterns). Second, the "best" neighborhood loses to the right house every time — a great home on a B+ street beats a compromised one on an A+ street, and we'll tell you which is which when we're standing in it.