Best PlacesCorpus Christi, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in the Corpus Christi metro, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Distance to the water drives a lot of the difference between one part and the next. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
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Corpus Christi ranks 311th of 387 U.S. metro areas on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 25 minutes away. Its strengths are cell coverage and the weather. The cost shows up in summer heat, thin health care access, and crime.
The best neighborhoods in the Corpus Christi metro
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 Corpus Christi
The towns and districts of the Corpus Christi metro, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood in each, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the metro.
Ingleside & Port Aransas
It is quieter, more residents vote, and crime runs lower.
Downtown Corpus Christi
Fewer homes sit empty and biking is better.
Rockport, Portland & Aransas Pass
Transit reaches fewer jobs and prices have run up more.
Bishop & Driscoll
More households have young kids, though schools score lower.
Taft
Fewer adults hold degrees and heat risk is higher.
Robstown
Streets are more car-dependent.
Sinton, Mathis & Odem
Homes cost less, though advertised internet is slower.
Corpus Christi shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 2% of the country and others in the top 8%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Corpus Christi's strengths and weaknesses
Corpus Christi ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. Cell coverage is the standout, in the top 3% of metro areas. The weather and a stable housing market follow.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: summer heat, thin health care access, and crime all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Corpus Christi ranks high
- Cell coverageBetter than 97% of metro areas
- Nice weatherabout 181 pleasant days a year, better than 96% of metro areas
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 93% of metro areas
- TransitBetter than 91% of metro areas
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 89% of metro areas
Where Corpus Christi ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 4% of metro areas
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 4% of metro areas
- Crime safetyBetter than only 6% of metro areas
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 7% of metro areas
- Tree shadeBetter than only 8% of metro areas
What it costs to buy a home in Corpus Christi
A household needs to earn about $63,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Corpus Christi home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $74,002, 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 Corpus Christi's effective rate of 1.33%, 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 Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Corpus Christi.
Who works in Corpus Christi, and how
Work in Corpus Christi 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 88%
- Work from home 7%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi has less late-night activity than most metro areas. The coast is about 25 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Corpus Christi and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Corpus Christi growing, and who is moving in?
Corpus Christi has held roughly flat in population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from Houston, TX.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Corpus Christi go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Corpus Christi, month by month
Corpus Christi sees roughly 181 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 69, with lows near 53. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 69° | 60° | 53° |
| April | 83° | 75° | 70° |
| July | 92° | 86° | 81° |
| October | 86° | 78° | 72° |
Flying in and out of Corpus Christi
The nearest airport, Corpus Christi International, is about 7 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is San Antonio International, about 141 miles away.
The best schools in and around Corpus Christi
Schools across Corpus Christi average a B−, better than 70% of metro areas.
Top elementary schools
- Windsor Park G/tA+ · 85% proficient
- Calallen Wood River ElB+ · 55% proficient
- Kolda ElB+ · 52% proficient
Top middle schools
- London MiddleA+ · 69% proficient
- Brundrett MiddleA− · 57% proficient
- Seashore Middle AcadA− · 53% proficient
Top high schools
- Port Aransas H SA · 73% proficient
- Collegiate H SA− · 67% proficient
- Calallen H SA− · 62% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Corpus Christi school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Corpus Christi 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 Corpus Christi against the other 386 metro areas.
Who Corpus Christi suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 7% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Corpus Christi
Is Corpus Christi a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Corpus Christi ranks 311th of 387 metro areas. It scores highest on cell coverage, the weather, and a stable housing market, and lowest on summer heat 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 Corpus Christi expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $224,353. The overall cost of living runs about 17% below the national average. Set against a $74,002 median income, cost of living beats 51% of metro areas.
Is Corpus Christi safe?
Corpus Christi is safer than 6% of metro areas. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $631 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Corpus Christi?
July highs average about 92 degrees, and January highs near 69 with lows near 53. That works out to about 181 pleasant days a year, more than 96% of metro areas.
What are the best neighborhoods in Corpus Christi?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Ingleside & Port Aransas, Downtown Corpus Christi, and Rockport, Portland & Aransas Pass. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Corpus Christi good for families?
Schools beat 70% of metro areas, crime safety beats 6%, and childcare runs $696 a month.
Is Corpus Christi good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 51% of metro areas, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 76% of metro areas. About 7% of workers already work from home.
Compare Corpus Christi with other metro areas
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Corpus Christi. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Corpus Christi 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.
Corpus Christi detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Corpus Christi: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Corpus Christi: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Corpus Christi: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Corpus Christi: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Corpus Christi 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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