Best PlacesCarls Corner, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Carls Corner, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Carls Corner ranks 37,676th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low taxes by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Carls Corner
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.
Carls Corner's strengths and weaknesses
Where Carls Corner ranks high
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 145 pleasant days a year, better than 91% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 84% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 84% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than 81% of towns
Where Carls Corner ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 5% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 10% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 14% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 16% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Carls Corner
A household needs to earn about $60,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Carls Corner home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $62,333, 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 Carls Corner's effective rate of 0.87%, 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 Carls Corner
Carls Corner 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 Carls Corner.
Who works in Carls Corner, and how
Work in Carls Corner centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 95%
- Work from home 3%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Carls Corner
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Carls Corner.
What the weather is like in Carls Corner, month by month
Carls Corner sees roughly 145 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 96 degrees. January highs sit near 59, with lows near 37. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 59° | 47° | 37° |
| April | 77° | 65° | 56° |
| July | 96° | 85° | 75° |
| October | 82° | 69° | 59° |
Flying in and out of Carls Corner
The nearest airport, Waco Regional, is about 34 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Dallas Love Field, about 54 miles away.
The best schools in and around Carls Corner
Schools across Carls Corner average a C+, better than 48% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Itasca ElD+ · 22% proficient
Top middle schools
- Hillsboro J HB · 44% proficient
- Hillsboro IntC · 33% proficient
- Itasca MiddleC− · 30% proficient
Top high schools
- Hillsboro H SB · 50% proficient
- Itasca H SC · 30% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Carls Corner school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Carls Corner 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 Carls Corner against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Carls Corner
Is Carls Corner a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Carls Corner ranks 37,676th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low taxes, the weather, and big-city access, and lowest on summer heat and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Carls Corner expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $227,200. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $62,333 median income, cost of living beats 36% of towns.
Is Carls Corner safe?
Carls Corner is safer than 17% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $518 per resident a year.
Compare Carls Corner with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Carls Corner. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Carls Corner 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.
Carls Corner detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Carls Corner: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Carls Corner: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Carls Corner: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Carls Corner: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Carls Corner 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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