Best PlacesAubrey, TX Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Aubrey, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Aubrey ranks 630th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a strong job market by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Aubrey

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Aubrey area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Aubrey's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%A strong job market
Top 10%Few empty homes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Aubrey with other cities.

Where Aubrey ranks high

  • Local economyBetter than 98% of cities
  • Low vacancyBetter than 92% of cities
  • Cell coverageBetter than 90% of cities
  • Internet speedBetter than 89% of cities
  • Crime safetyBetter than 88% of cities

Where Aubrey ranks low

  • Short commute37.4 minutes each way, better than only 3% of cities
  • TransitBetter than only 13% of cities
  • Low property taxBetter than only 16% of cities
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 19% of cities
  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 26% of cities

What it costs to buy a home in Aubrey

A household needs to earn about $109,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Aubrey home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $108,018; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.

Income to buy the median home
$109,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,544
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $374,443 home
Median rent
$2,268
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,909
Property tax$510
Homeowners insurance$125

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 Aubrey's effective rate of 1.63%, 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Aubrey

Aubrey runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
36
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
10%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.9
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1828%
18 to 3424%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6418%
65 and older10%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Aubrey.


Who works in Aubrey, and how

Work in Aubrey centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
26%
above the national average
Unemployment
3.6%
below the national average
Job growth
+12.5%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social16%
Professional & technical11%
Retail trade11%
Finance & insurance9%
Construction9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 73%
  • Work from home 26%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 1%

Life in Aubrey

Aubrey has more restaurants and bars per resident than 66% of cities and more parkland per resident than 85% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Aubrey and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
103
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 34.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 66% of cities
Coffee shops
14
about 4.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 78% of cities
Parkland
135 acres
about 4.5 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 85% of cities

What the weather is like in Aubrey, month by month

Aubrey sees roughly 119 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 97 degrees. January highs sit near 57, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, October, and November.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January57°44°33°
April77°64°53°
July97°86°75°
October81°67°55°

Flying in and out of Aubrey

Dallas-Fort Worth International sits about 24 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 41.3 million passengers in 2025, with 289 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
DFW
Dallas-Fort Worth International, about 24 miles
Airport size
Large hub
2nd-busiest in the US, 289 nonstop destinations
Average drive
34 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Aubrey

Schools across Aubrey average a C+, better than 42% of cities.

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Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Aubrey school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Aubrey 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 Aubrey against the other 2,097 cities.


Who Aubrey suits

Families

Schools land around the 42nd percentile and crime safety beats 88%.

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Remote workers

Cost of living against local pay beats 76% of cities, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 26% already work from home.

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Retirees

The weather beats 69% of cities and it is quieter than 80%.

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Common questions about living in Aubrey

Is Aubrey a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Aubrey ranks 630th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on a strong job market, few empty homes, and cell coverage, and lowest on long commutes and transit. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Aubrey expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $374,443. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $108,018 median income, cost of living beats 76% of cities.

Is Aubrey safe?

Yes, Aubrey is safer than 88% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $243 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Aubrey?

July highs average about 97 degrees, and January highs near 57 with lows near 33. That works out to about 119 pleasant days a year, more than 69% of cities.

Is Aubrey good for families?

Schools beat 42% of cities, crime safety beats 88%, and childcare runs $863 a month.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Aubrey. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Aubrey 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.

Aubrey detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Aubrey: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Aubrey: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Aubrey: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Aubrey: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Aubrey detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.