Best PlacesEastgate, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Eastgate, 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.
Eastgate ranks 43,500th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low taxes by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Eastgate
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.
Eastgate's strengths and weaknesses
Where Eastgate ranks high
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 90% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 84% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 82% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than 81% of towns
Where Eastgate ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 2% of towns
- Short commute43.5 minutes each way, better than only 2% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 4% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Eastgate
A household needs to earn about $73,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Eastgate home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $74,604, 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 Eastgate's effective rate of 1.21%, 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 Eastgate
Eastgate 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 Eastgate.
Who works in Eastgate, and how
Work in Eastgate centers on retail trade and manufacturing. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 93%
- Work from home 3%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Eastgate
The coast is about 40 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Eastgate, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Eastgate, month by month
Eastgate sees roughly 95 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 96 degrees. January highs sit near 67, with lows near 43. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 67° | 54° | 43° |
| April | 82° | 70° | 59° |
| July | 96° | 85° | 76° |
| October | 86° | 72° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Eastgate
George Bush Intcntl/Houston sits about 20 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 23.3 million passengers in 2025, with 214 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Eastgate
Schools across Eastgate average a C, better than 39% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Richter ElC · 32% proficient
- Huffman ElC− · 26% proficient
- Kimmie M Brown ElD · 20% proficient
Top high schools
- Hargrave H SB · 50% proficient
- Dayton H SB · 48% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Eastgate school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Eastgate 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 Eastgate against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Eastgate
Is Eastgate a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Eastgate ranks 43,500th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low taxes, big-city access, and cell coverage, and lowest on air quality 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 Eastgate expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $263,379. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $74,604 median income, cost of living beats 54% of towns.
Is Eastgate safe?
Eastgate is safer than 24% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $483 per resident a year.
Compare Eastgate with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Eastgate. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Eastgate 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.
Eastgate detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Eastgate: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Eastgate: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Eastgate: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Eastgate: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Eastgate 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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