Best PlacesBexar County, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in Bexar County, 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.
Bexar County ranks 645th of 3,144 U.S. counties on the BestNeighborhood index. It does not top any single list, but it lands above the national middle on cell coverage and transit. The weaker spots are civic engagement, summer heat, and property taxes.
The best neighborhoods in Bexar County
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 Bexar County
The parts of Bexar County, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the county.
Castle Hills & Hollywood Park
More adults hold degrees, local pay stretches further, and incomes run higher.
San Antonio
Schools score higher, though homes cost more.
Converse, Universal City & Live Oak
Health care is easier to reach and fewer homes sit empty.
Kirby, Alamo Heights & Terrell Hills
More households have young kids.
Leon Valley
Scores close to Kirby, Alamo Heights & Terrell Hills, except that tree cover is thicker here.
Lackland AFB, Atascosa & Von Ormy
Fewer residents vote.
Olmos Park
Streets are more walkable and transit reaches more jobs.
Elmendorf & Adkins
Heat risk is higher and crime runs higher.
Bexar County shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 2% of the country and others in the top 1%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Bexar County's strengths and weaknesses
Bexar County ranks where it does because the parts of life that are hardest to change mostly work here. Cell coverage is the standout, in the top 1% of counties. Transit and fast internet follow.
The one real hole is civic engagement, near the bottom of the country. Summer heat and property taxes also cost it ground. The measures below break that down, and the map shows how much of it holds street by street.
Where Bexar County ranks high
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of counties
- TransitBetter than 98% of counties
- Internet speedBetter than 94% of counties
- BikingBetter than 92% of counties
- Nice weatherabout 150 pleasant days a year, better than 92% of counties
Where Bexar County ranks low
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 3% of counties
- Heat safetyBetter than only 6% of counties
- Low property taxBetter than only 7% of counties
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 7% of counties
- QuietBetter than only 10% of counties
What it costs to buy a home in Bexar County
A household needs to earn about $81,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bexar County home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $82,746, 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 Bexar County's effective rate of 1.51%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Bexar County
Bexar County runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bexar County.
Who works in Bexar County, and how
Work in Bexar County centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Bexar County
Bexar County has more parkland per resident than 77% of counties and more late-night spots per resident than 71% of counties. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Bexar County and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Bexar County growing, and who is moving in?
Bexar County has grown about 14% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the San Antonio, TX metro.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Bexar County go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Bexar County, month by month
Bexar County sees roughly 150 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 98 degrees. January highs sit near 67, with lows near 40. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 67° | 53° | 40° |
| April | 84° | 70° | 58° |
| July | 98° | 85° | 76° |
| October | 86° | 72° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Bexar County
San Antonio International sits about 5 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.3 million passengers in 2025, with 87 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Bexar County
Schools across Bexar County average a C, better than 43% of counties.
Top elementary schools
- Wilderness Oak ElA · 65% proficient
- Hardy Oak ElA · 65% proficient
- Timberwood Park ElA · 64% proficient
Top middle schools
- Lopez MiddleA+ · 71% proficient
- Smithson Valley MiddleA+ · 68% proficient
- Pieper Ranch MiddleA · 66% proficient
Top high schools
- Health Careers H SA+ · 91% proficient
- Basis San Antonio- Shavano CampusA+ · 85% proficient
- Memorial Early College H S With St Philip'sA+ · 82% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Bexar County school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Bexar County 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 Bexar County against the other 3,143 counties.
Who Bexar County suits
Families
Schools land around the 43rd percentile and crime safety beats 57%.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 85% of counties, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 14% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Bexar County
Is Bexar County a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bexar County ranks 645th of 3,144 counties. It scores highest on cell coverage, transit, and fast internet, and lowest on civic engagement and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Bexar County expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $281,044. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $82,746 median income, cost of living beats 85% of counties.
Is Bexar County safe?
Yes, Bexar County is safer than 57% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $420 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Bexar County?
July highs average about 98 degrees, and January highs near 67 with lows near 40. That works out to about 150 pleasant days a year, more than 92% of counties.
What are the best neighborhoods in Bexar County?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Castle Hills & Hollywood Park, San Antonio, and Converse, Universal City & Live Oak. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Bexar County good for families?
Schools beat 43% of counties, crime safety beats 57%, and childcare runs $783 a month.
Is Bexar County good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 85% of counties, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 94% of counties. About 14% of workers already work from home.
Compare Bexar County with other counties
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bexar County. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bexar County 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.
Bexar County detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Bexar County: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Bexar County: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Bexar County: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Bexar County: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Bexar County 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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