Best PlacesBee Cave, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Bee Cave, 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.
Bee Cave ranks 212th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Bee Cave
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.
Bee Cave's strengths and weaknesses
Where Bee Cave ranks high
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 98% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 161 pleasant days a year, better than 95% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 95% of towns
Where Bee Cave ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 12% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 16% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 21% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,048 a month, better than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Bee Cave
A household needs to earn about $269,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bee Cave home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $124,439, 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 Bee Cave's effective rate of 1.18%, 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 Bee Cave
Bee Cave 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 Bee Cave.
Who works in Bee Cave, and how
Work in Bee Cave centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 60%
- Work from home 38%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Bee Cave
Bee Cave has more restaurants and bars per resident than 93% of towns and more parkland per resident than 92% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Bee Cave and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Bee Cave, month by month
Bee Cave sees roughly 161 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 99 degrees. January highs sit near 64, with lows near 43. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 64° | 52° | 43° |
| April | 82° | 70° | 60° |
| July | 99° | 86° | 76° |
| October | 85° | 72° | 62° |
Flying in and out of Bee Cave
Austin-Bergstrom International sits about 19 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 10.7 million passengers in 2025, with 127 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Bee Cave
Schools across Bee Cave average an A, better than 90% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Barton Creek ElA+ · 73% proficient
- Lake Pointe ElA · 64% proficient
- Lakeway ElA− · 61% proficient
Top middle schools
- West Ridge MiddleA+ · 74% proficient
- Lake Travis MiddleA · 61% proficient
- Hudson Bend MiddleA− · 58% proficient
Top high schools
- Westlake H SA+ · 85% proficient
- Lake Travis H SA · 68% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Bee Cave school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Bee Cave 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 Bee Cave against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Bee Cave
Is Bee Cave a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bee Cave ranks 212th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, what local pay buys, and an educated workforce, and lowest on summer heat and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Bee Cave expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $977,848. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $124,439 median income, cost of living beats 98% of towns.
Is Bee Cave safe?
Yes, Bee Cave is safer than 85% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $233 per resident a year.
Compare Bee Cave with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bee Cave. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bee Cave 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.
Bee Cave detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Bee Cave: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Bee Cave: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Bee Cave: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Bee Cave: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Bee Cave 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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