Sherwood Forest Dr, El Sobrante

Sherwood Forest Drive in El Sobrante--just a couple of blocks off San Pablo Dam Road--looks like a typical 1970’s style neighborhood with Ranch style homes and garages with dolphins on the occasional garage door.

These don’t look like your typical Ranch style homes however. First, many of them have shingled roofs, gabled dormers and prairie style porches. All in all a very Western feel to homes. Also a lot of lawn chairs on front porches, suggesting the neighborhood is mostly made up of older folks. Homes here sell for around a quarter of a million dollars.

This is also a fairly safe area with only the occasional burglary or incident. It is far enough from the city that those kinds of urban problems seem to fade.

The local elementary here is pretty good as well. (Though the rest of the schools are progressively worse for the older kids.)

Overall this seems like an okay neighborhood if you are just starting a family or if your kids are already out of the house.