Best PlacesBeaumont, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in the Beaumont metro, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Distance to the water drives a lot of the difference between one part and the next. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
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Beaumont ranks 369th of 387 U.S. metro areas on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 48 minutes away. Its strengths are a stable housing market and affordable childcare. The cost shows up in disaster risk, summer heat, and crime.
The best neighborhoods in the Beaumont metro
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.
The best areas in Beaumont
The towns and districts of the Beaumont metro, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood in each, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the metro.
Lumberton, Silsbee & Kountze
Disaster risk is lower, tree cover is thicker, and more residents vote.
Bridge City & West Orange
Local pay stretches further and incomes run higher.
Downtown Beaumont
More adults hold degrees and health care is easier to reach.
Nederland & Port Neches
Schools score higher and fewer homes sit empty.
Orange
Crime runs lower.
Vidor
It is quieter, though fewer households have young kids.
Central Gardens
Homes cost less, though health outcomes score lower.
Port Arthur & Groves
Streets are more walkable.
Scores across Beaumont run from about the 1st to the 84th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Beaumont's strengths and weaknesses
Beaumont ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. A stable housing market, affordable childcare, and low taxes carry most of that.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: disaster risk, summer heat, and crime all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Beaumont ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 97% of metro areas
- Cheap childcare$624 a month, better than 90% of metro areas
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 89% of metro areas
- State fiscal healthBetter than 82% of metro areas
- Cell coverageBetter than 67% of metro areas
Where Beaumont ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of metro areas
- Heat safetyBetter than only 8% of metro areas
- Crime safetyBetter than only 8% of metro areas
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 8% of metro areas
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 9% of metro areas
What it costs to buy a home in Beaumont
A household needs to earn about $51,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Beaumont home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $73,718, 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 Beaumont's effective rate of 1.36%, 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 Beaumont
Beaumont's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Beaumont.
Who works in Beaumont, and how
Work in Beaumont centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 91%
- Work from home 5%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Beaumont
Beaumont has less parkland per resident than most metro areas. The coast is about 48 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Beaumont and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Beaumont growing, and who is moving in?
Beaumont has grown about 2% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from Houston, TX.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Beaumont go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Beaumont, month by month
Beaumont sees roughly 106 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 65, with lows near 45. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 65° | 53° | 45° |
| April | 80° | 69° | 61° |
| July | 93° | 83° | 76° |
| October | 84° | 71° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Beaumont
The nearest airport, Jack Brooks Regional, is about 12 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is George Bush Intcntl/Houston, about 72 miles away.
The best schools in and around Beaumont
Schools across Beaumont average a C, better than 21% of metro areas.
Top elementary schools
- Helena Park ElA− · 57% proficient
- Langham ElB+ · 55% proficient
- Hamshire-fannett ElB+ · 55% proficient
Top middle schools
- Henderson MiddleA− · 55% proficient
- Wilson MiddleA− · 54% proficient
- Vidor J HB− · 41% proficient
Top high schools
- Hardin-jefferson H SA · 69% proficient
- Lumberton H SA− · 62% proficient
- Nederland H SB+ · 58% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Beaumont school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Beaumont 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 Beaumont against the other 386 metro areas.
Who Beaumont suits
Common questions about living in Beaumont
Is Beaumont a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Beaumont ranks 369th of 387 metro areas. It scores highest on a stable housing market, affordable childcare, and low taxes, and lowest on disaster risk and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Beaumont expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $180,126. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $73,718 median income, cost of living beats 38% of metro areas.
Is Beaumont safe?
Beaumont is safer than 8% of metro areas. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $587 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Beaumont?
July highs average about 93 degrees, and January highs near 65 with lows near 45. That works out to about 106 pleasant days a year, more than 64% of metro areas.
What are the best neighborhoods in Beaumont?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Lumberton, Silsbee & Kountze, Bridge City & West Orange, and Downtown Beaumont. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Beaumont good for families?
Schools beat 21% of metro areas, crime safety beats 8%, and childcare runs $624 a month.
Is Beaumont good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 38% of metro areas, though advertised internet speeds beat only 39% of metro areas. About 5% of workers already work from home.
Compare Beaumont with other metro areas
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Beaumont. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Beaumont 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.
Beaumont detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Beaumont: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Beaumont: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Beaumont: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Beaumont: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Beaumont 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.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- 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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