Google doesn't treat any admin level differently from another. Whether it's a state, a County, a village, or a neighborhood the side of a handkerchief, the question is always "are there actual limits on the map when i search for it?" This is somewhat more of an issue in Quebec, where MANY municipalities and neighborhoods have way incorrect limits or only a pin.
A very small neighborhood may be treated similarly to a pin due to a lack of results inside the limits, but it's still a wild swing whether or not you can actually succeed at ranking there. I've run into a few where google suddenly decided to include,like, two street corners instead of treating it as a pin, which only made the situation worse (for comparison, these are the actual limits For Chomedey).
By the way, yes "when I search for it" is an important distinction. Sometimes Google has variants with wildly different limits but only one of them is the default for geolocalised searches. We have two different possible results for "Breakeyville", but luckily google default to the first, correct one. We also have a similar problem for clients in the Saint-Sauveur neighborhood of Quebec City, because Google refuse to default to anything else than the homonymous municipality when you do actual keyword searches.
A very small neighborhood may be treated similarly to a pin due to a lack of results inside the limits, but it's still a wild swing whether or not you can actually succeed at ranking there. I've run into a few where google suddenly decided to include,like, two street corners instead of treating it as a pin, which only made the situation worse (for comparison, these are the actual limits For Chomedey).
By the way, yes "when I search for it" is an important distinction. Sometimes Google has variants with wildly different limits but only one of them is the default for geolocalised searches. We have two different possible results for "Breakeyville", but luckily google default to the first, correct one. We also have a similar problem for clients in the Saint-Sauveur neighborhood of Quebec City, because Google refuse to default to anything else than the homonymous municipality when you do actual keyword searches.
