The Sims 2 list of neighborhoods and lots

The Sims 2 base game comes with 3 pre-made neighborhoods, with all expansion installed will be 6 pre-made neighborhoods, plus 8 pre-made sub-neighborhoods which can be linked to each neighborhood separately and visited (3 university campuses, 1 downtown, 1 shopping district, 3 vacation destinations). Total 14 pre-made neighborhoods with 350 lots. Additional 5 hidden neighborhoods do exist in game files and are used to generate NPC, they cannot be played. List of lots is also available in Excel format.

Image	Neighborhood name	Game	# of lots	Total lot value	# of families
	Pleasantview	Base	26	$1,447,983	6
	Strangetown	Base	11	$855,803	5
	Veronaville	Base	26	$1,614,811	3
	Riverblossom Hills	Seasons	22	$1,221,275	6
	Desiderata Valley	Free Time	23	$1,207,190	6
	Belladonna Cove	Apartment Life	49	$5,453,828	11
	Sim State University	University	26	$1,194,024	3
	La Fiesta Tech	University	25	$1,060,288	4
	Académie Le Tour	University	30	$1,174,785	3
	Downtown	Nightlife	44	$3,298,073	0
	Bluewater Village	Open For Business	32	$2,049,080	5
	Takemizu Village	Bon Voyage	11	$1,071,539	0
	Three Lakes	Bon Voyage	12	$1,072,802	0
	Twikkii Island	Bon Voyage	13	$1,164,386	0
	TOTAL		350	$23,885,867	52

Total lot value: calculated by making a total of the values shown when you enter lot and click “Lot Information” in top-left corner, this is how I was able to get value for community lots and apartment lots. But in university campus, dorms display $0 value and residential houses display rent value instead of built-up value.

Excel table – list of houses in all The Sims 2 neighborhoods

I compiled an Excel table with all lots in every neighborhood. Database format: Lot address, Lot size, Lot zoning, Lot value, Default lot value, Rent value, Family name, Family funds. Considering that I spent some time writing every lot (about 30 minutes hour per neighborhood), and NO equivalent database is available on internet, I deserve one dollar for each neighborhood!

Download FREE sample:

The Sims 2 lots from Belladonna Cove.xls

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SC4 templates

Which is the biggest neighborhood in The Sims 2? Most people say that IslaSegundo and Driftwood. Personally I say Isla Segundo, followed by Alpinoch and Driftwood. But… how do you define the “size” of a neighborhood? Longest roads, distance between roads, build-able space, or…?

I decided to count the length of roads. Results are shown in the following table:

SC4 map	Neighborhood name	Game	Road tiles
	Alpinloch.sc4	Base	404
	Arbordale.sc4	Base	390
	Aridia.sc4	Base	376
	BrineyFjord.sc4	Base	387
	CrystalSprings.sc4	Base	296
	Driftwood.sc4	Base	435
	IslaSegundo.sc4	Base	584
	OasisValley.sc4	Base	364
	Pleasantview.sc4	Base	385
	sample.sc4	Base	286
	Sedona.sc4	Base	352
	Strangetown.sc4	Base	306
	Veronaville.sc4	Base	416
	ViperCanyon.sc4	Base	361
	Bluewater.sc4	Open For Business	363
	RiverblossomHills.sc4	Seasons	369
	CrescentIsland.sc4	Bon Voyage	214
	MoonIslands.sc4	Bon Voyage	125
	TakemizuVillage.sc4 (vacation)	Bon Voyage	91
	ThreeLakes.sc4 (vacation)	Bon Voyage	164
	TwikkiiIsland.sc4 (vacation)	Bon Voyage	83
	DesiderataValley.sc4	Free Time	321
	BelladonnaCove.sc4	Apartment Life	530
	Duality.sc4	Apartment Life	48
	AutumnBay.sc4	Made by Gethane	597
	BlackrockBluffs.sc4	Made by Gethane	772
	HarborValley.sc4	Made by Gethane	629
	LakeCrossing.sc4	Made by Gethane	823
	StarlingSprings.sc4	Made by Gethane	692

Warning: the road length may not reflect apparent size of map. Maps with too close roads may look smaller, for example Veronaville. Also Strangetown having 2 parallel roads at 1 square apart, plus 3 side roads, looks a very small city. However all other maps have the roads at about 7-15 squares apart so a comparison using length of roads will be no problem.

Sedona have 4 roads going to map edges so the actual city is very small, while Alpinoch have only 1 road going to road edge so the city looks huge, would be nice map if it was not hilly.

IslaSegundo is the only one The Sims 2 map with no roads connecting the road edges, it also have longest roads so is definitely the BIGGEST map.

Note: All the photos shows lush or desert according default settings of game. All neighborhoods can be made lush, desert, dirt or concrete. Pleasantview SimCity terrain is different than the decorated Pleasantview. But as coincidence, road length is the same.

Which is my favorite neighborhood?

None of the above. ALL SUCKS!

Personally I prefer neighborhoods with roads close enough to be able to build everything and leave none or little space between houses, and with all “city” flat, surrounded by mountains and some water. The only neighborhood which partially match criteria is Pleasantview, but it is too small. So I usually build houses on better, player-made neighborhoods downloaded from ModTheSims.info, my favorites are the neighborhoods made by an user named Gethane.