Best PlacesArroyo Gardens, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Arroyo Gardens, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Arroyo Gardens ranks 44,030th 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 Arroyo Gardens
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.
Arroyo Gardens' strengths and weaknesses
Where Arroyo Gardens ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 179 pleasant days a year, better than 98% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 89% of towns
- QuietBetter than 86% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 83% of towns
Where Arroyo Gardens ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 3% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 6% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 7% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Arroyo Gardens
A household needs to earn about $36,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Arroyo Gardens home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $47,982, 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 Arroyo Gardens' effective rate of 0.97%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Arroyo Gardens
Arroyo Gardens runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Arroyo Gardens.
Who works in Arroyo Gardens, and how
Work in Arroyo Gardens centers on health care & social and construction. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 94%
- Work from home 5%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Arroyo Gardens
The coast is about 44 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Arroyo Gardens, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Arroyo Gardens, month by month
Arroyo Gardens sees roughly 179 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 96 degrees. January highs sit near 73, with lows near 51. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 73° | 60° | 51° |
| April | 87° | 75° | 66° |
| July | 96° | 85° | 76° |
| October | 88° | 76° | 66° |
Flying in and out of Arroyo Gardens
The nearest airport, Valley International, is about 10 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is San Antonio International, about 237 miles away.
The best schools in and around Arroyo Gardens
Schools across Arroyo Gardens average a C−, better than 28% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Las Yescas ElC− · 27% proficient
Top middle schools
- Liberty Memorial MiddleC+ · 36% proficient
Top high schools
- Los Fresnos H SB · 50% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Arroyo Gardens school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Arroyo Gardens 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 Arroyo Gardens against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Arroyo Gardens
Is Arroyo Gardens a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Arroyo Gardens ranks 44,030th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, low taxes, and fast internet, 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 Arroyo Gardens expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $136,351. The overall cost of living runs about 21% below the national average. Set against a $47,982 median income, cost of living beats 17% of towns.
Is Arroyo Gardens safe?
Arroyo Gardens is safer than 19% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $530 per resident a year.
Compare Arroyo Gardens with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Arroyo Gardens. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Arroyo Gardens 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.
Arroyo Gardens detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Arroyo Gardens: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Arroyo Gardens: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Arroyo Gardens: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Arroyo Gardens: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Arroyo Gardens 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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