Best PlacesCombine, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Combine, 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.
Combine ranks 12,263rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on fast internet by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Combine
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.
Combine's strengths and weaknesses
Where Combine ranks high
- Internet speedBetter than 98% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 96% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 90% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 86% of towns
Where Combine ranks low
- Short commute40.6 minutes each way, better than only 5% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 13% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 16% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 17% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Combine
A household needs to earn about $90,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Combine home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $101,541, 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 Combine's effective rate of 1.40%, 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 Combine
Combine runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Combine.
Who works in Combine, and how
Work in Combine centers on construction and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 77%
- Work from home 20%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Combine
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Combine.
What the weather is like in Combine, month by month
Combine sees roughly 121 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 57, 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 | 57° | 46° | 37° |
| April | 76° | 65° | 55° |
| July | 95° | 84° | 74° |
| October | 80° | 67° | 57° |
Flying in and out of Combine
Dallas Love Field sits about 26 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 8.2 million passengers in 2025, with 91 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Combine
Schools across Combine average a B−, better than 53% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Nola Kathryn Wilson ElB− · 40% proficient
- W A Martin ElC · 33% proficient
- Seagoville ElD · 16% proficient
Top middle schools
- Crandall MiddleB− · 41% proficient
- D A Hulcy Steam MiddleC− · 31% proficient
Top high schools
- Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate AcademyA− · 60% proficient
- Crandall H SB− · 45% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Combine school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Combine 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 Combine against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Combine
Is Combine a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Combine ranks 12,263rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on fast internet, a strong job market, and low taxes, and lowest on long commutes and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Combine expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $318,717. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $101,541 median income, cost of living beats 86% of towns.
Is Combine safe?
Combine is safer than 44% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $392 per resident a year.
Compare Combine with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Combine. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Combine 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.
Combine detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Combine: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Combine: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Combine: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Combine: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Combine 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.