Best PlacesBrazoria, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Brazoria, 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.
Brazoria ranks 35,750th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cell coverage by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Brazoria
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.
Brazoria's strengths and weaknesses
Where Brazoria ranks high
- Cell coverageBetter than 94% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 137 pleasant days a year, better than 88% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 85% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than 81% of towns
Where Brazoria ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 7% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 16% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 18% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Brazoria
A household needs to earn about $52,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Brazoria home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $75,143, 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 Brazoria's effective rate of 0.98%, 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.
Who lives in Brazoria
Brazoria runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Brazoria.
Who works in Brazoria, and how
Work in Brazoria centers on manufacturing and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Brazoria
Brazoria has more restaurants and bars per resident than 69% of towns. The coast is about 27 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Brazoria and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Brazoria, month by month
Brazoria sees roughly 137 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 66, with lows near 46. The comfortable stretch runs October through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 66° | 55° | 46° |
| April | 80° | 71° | 62° |
| July | 93° | 83° | 75° |
| October | 84° | 72° | 63° |
Flying in and out of Brazoria
William P Hobby sits about 46 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 6.8 million passengers in 2025, with 101 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Brazoria
Schools across Brazoria average a C+, better than 48% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Bess Brannen ElA− · 59% proficient
- Westside ElB · 47% proficient
- Van Vleck ElC+ · 38% proficient
Top middle schools
- Rasco MiddleB · 47% proficient
- West Brazos J HC+ · 36% proficient
- Sweeny J HC · 35% proficient
Top high schools
- Sweeny H SB · 48% proficient
- Brazoswood H SB · 46% proficient
- Van Vleck H SB− · 45% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Brazoria school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Brazoria 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 Brazoria against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Brazoria
Is Brazoria a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Brazoria ranks 35,750th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cell coverage, low taxes, and the weather, 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 Brazoria expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $195,206. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $75,143 median income, cost of living beats 58% of towns.
Is Brazoria safe?
Brazoria is safer than 35% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $449 per resident a year.
Compare Brazoria with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Brazoria. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Brazoria 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.
Brazoria detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Brazoria: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Brazoria: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Brazoria: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Brazoria: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Brazoria 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.