Best PlacesCowlic, AZ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Cowlic, 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.
Cowlic ranks 49,545th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low property taxes by a wide margin, and thin health care access ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Cowlic
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.
Cowlic's strengths and weaknesses
Where Cowlic ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 174 pleasant days a year, better than 97% of towns
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 76% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 68% of towns
Where Cowlic ranks low
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 1% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 2% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 3% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Cowlic
A household needs to earn about $36,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Cowlic home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $38,906, 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 a national 0.90% effective rate, since no local rate is published, 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 Cowlic
Cowlic runs younger 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 Cowlic.
Who works in Cowlic, and how
Work in Cowlic centers on public administration and retail trade. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Cowlic
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Cowlic.
What the weather is like in Cowlic, month by month
Cowlic sees roughly 174 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 101 degrees. January highs sit near 66, with lows near 38. The comfortable stretch runs February through April, November, and December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 66° | 54° | 38° |
| April | 85° | 74° | 53° |
| July | 101° | 92° | 77° |
| October | 88° | 76° | 57° |
Flying in and out of Cowlic
The nearest airport, Tucson International, is about 65 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Phoenix Sky Harbor International, about 112 miles away.
Cowlic 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 Cowlic against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Cowlic
Is Cowlic a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Cowlic ranks 49,545th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low property taxes, the weather, and quiet, and lowest on thin health care access and health outcomes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Cowlic expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $137,500. The overall cost of living runs about 7% below the national average. Set against a $38,906 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.
Is Cowlic safe?
Cowlic is safer than 6% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $691 per resident a year.
Compare Cowlic with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Cowlic. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cowlic 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.
Cowlic detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Cowlic: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Cowlic: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Cowlic: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Cowlic: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Cowlic 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.