Best PlacesAlice, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Alice, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Alice ranks 41,349th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Alice
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.
Alice's strengths and weaknesses
Where Alice ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 188 pleasant days a year, better than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 95% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 89% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 87% of towns
Where Alice ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 3% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 8% of towns
- School gradeD, better than only 9% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Alice
A household needs to earn about $39,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Alice home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $55,963, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 Alice's effective rate of 1.11%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Alice
Alice runs younger 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 Alice.
Who works in Alice, and how
Work in Alice centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Alice
Alice has more restaurants and bars per resident than 80% of towns and more parkland per resident than 82% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Alice and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Alice, month by month
Alice sees roughly 188 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 98 degrees. January highs sit near 71, with lows near 47. The comfortable stretch runs October through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 71° | 57° | 47° |
| April | 87° | 73° | 64° |
| July | 98° | 85° | 74° |
| October | 88° | 74° | 64° |
Flying in and out of Alice
The nearest airport, Corpus Christi International, is about 35 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is San Antonio International, about 125 miles away.
The best schools in and around Alice
Schools across Alice average a D, better than 9% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Santa Gertrudis SchoolA− · 57% proficient
- Orange Grove ElB · 49% proficient
- Driscoll El & MiddleB · 45% proficient
Top middle schools
- Banquete J HB+ · 48% proficient
- Orange Grove J HB− · 42% proficient
- Lillion E Luehrs J HC− · 28% proficient
Top high schools
- Santa Gertrudis Academy H SB+ · 58% proficient
- Orange Grove H SB+ · 53% proficient
- Banquete H SB− · 42% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Alice school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Alice 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 Alice against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Alice suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 12% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Alice
Is Alice a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Alice ranks 41,349th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, walkability, and low taxes, and lowest on summer heat and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Alice expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $144,274. The overall cost of living runs about 23% below the national average. Set against a $55,963 median income, cost of living beats 30% of towns.
Is Alice safe?
Alice is safer than 15% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $607 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Alice?
July highs average about 98 degrees, and January highs near 71 with lows near 47. That works out to about 188 pleasant days a year, more than 99% of towns.
Is Alice good for families?
Schools beat 9% of towns, crime safety beats 15%, and childcare runs $702 a month.
Compare Alice with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Alice. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Alice 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.
Alice detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Alice: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Alice: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Alice: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Alice: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Alice 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.