Best PlacesAlamo Heights, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Alamo Heights, 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 Heights ranks 40th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Alamo Heights
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 Heights' strengths and weaknesses
Where Alamo Heights ranks high
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$182,525 median, better than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
Where Alamo Heights ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 5% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 12% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 17% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 25% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Alamo Heights
A household needs to earn about $233,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Alamo Heights home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $182,525, 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 Heights' effective rate of 1.78%, 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 Heights
Alamo Heights runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Alamo Heights.
Who works in Alamo Heights, and how
Work in Alamo Heights centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 73%
- Work from home 24%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Alamo Heights
Alamo Heights has more restaurants and bars per resident than 86% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Alamo Heights and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Alamo Heights, month by month
Alamo Heights sees roughly 153 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 98 degrees. January highs sit near 67, with lows near 40. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 67° | 53° | 40° |
| April | 84° | 70° | 58° |
| July | 98° | 85° | 76° |
| October | 86° | 72° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Alamo Heights
San Antonio International sits about 4 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.3 million passengers in 2025, with 87 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Alamo Heights
Schools across Alamo Heights average an A−, better than 83% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Cambridge ElB− · 42% proficient
Top middle schools
- Alamo Heights J HA− · 52% proficient
Top high schools
- Alamo Heights H SA · 68% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Alamo Heights school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Alamo Heights 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 Heights against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Alamo Heights
Is Alamo Heights a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Alamo Heights ranks 40th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on transit, what local pay buys, and cell coverage, and lowest on property taxes and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Alamo Heights expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $785,186. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $182,525 median income, cost of living beats 100% of towns.
Is Alamo Heights safe?
Yes, Alamo Heights is safer than 64% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $294 per resident a year.
Compare Alamo Heights with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Alamo Heights. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Alamo Heights 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 Heights detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Alamo Heights: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Alamo Heights: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Alamo Heights: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Alamo Heights: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Alamo Heights 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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