Best PlacesAlamo, CA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Alamo, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Alamo ranks 820th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on high incomes by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Alamo
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Alamo's strengths and weaknesses
Where Alamo ranks high
- Household income$238,239 median, better than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 98% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 98% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 98% of towns
Where Alamo ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,942 a month, better than only 1% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 12% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 17% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Alamo
A household needs to earn about $511,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Alamo home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $238,239, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Alamo's effective rate of 0.70%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Alamo
Alamo runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Alamo.
Who works in Alamo, and how
Work in Alamo centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 59%
- Work from home 32%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Alamo
The coast is about 30 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Alamo, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Alamo, month by month
Alamo sees roughly 174 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 61, with lows near 41. The comfortable stretch runs March through November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 61° | 51° | 41° |
| April | 75° | 60° | 48° |
| July | 92° | 72° | 58° |
| October | 82° | 65° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Alamo
San Francisco Bay Oakland International sits about 15 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.5 million passengers in 2025, with 64 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Alamo
Schools across Alamo average an A−, better than 83% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Walnut Acres ElementaryA · 64% proficient
Top middle schools
- Foothill MiddleA · 63% proficient
Top high schools
- Monte Vista HighA · 75% proficient
- Las Lomas HighA · 75% proficient
- Northgate HighA · 70% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Alamo school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Alamo measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Alamo against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Alamo
Is Alamo a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Alamo ranks 820th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on high incomes, an educated workforce, and what local pay buys, and lowest on childcare costs and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Alamo expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,979,649. The overall cost of living runs about 58% above the national average. Set against a $238,239 median income, cost of living beats 98% of towns.
Is Alamo safe?
Alamo is safer than 47% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $318 per resident a year.
Compare Alamo with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Alamo. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Alamo represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Alamo detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Alamo: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Alamo: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Alamo: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Alamo: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Alamo detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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