Best PlacesGuy, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Guy, 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.
Guy ranks 20,278th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Guy
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.
Guy's strengths and weaknesses
Where Guy ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 169 pleasant days a year, better than 96% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 95% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 92% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 89% of towns
Where Guy ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 3% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 7% of towns
- Short commute36.6 minutes each way, better than only 10% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 17% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Guy
A household needs to earn about $74,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Guy home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $85,132, 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 Guy's effective rate of 1.17%, 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 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Guy
Guy 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 Guy.
Who works in Guy, and how
Work in Guy centers on construction and education. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Guy
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Guy.
What the weather is like in Guy, month by month
Guy sees roughly 169 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 65, with lows near 45. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 65° | 53° | 45° |
| April | 80° | 69° | 60° |
| July | 94° | 82° | 74° |
| October | 84° | 72° | 62° |
Flying in and out of Guy
William P Hobby sits about 37 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 6.8 million passengers in 2025, with 101 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Guy
Schools across Guy average an A−, better than 81% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Needville ElA− · 56% proficient
- Newgulf ElC+ · 36% proficient
- Damon ElD · 18% proficient
Top middle schools
- Needville J HA · 59% proficient
- Needville MiddleA− · 55% proficient
Top high schools
- Needville H SB+ · 57% proficient
- Boling H SB− · 42% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Guy school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Guy 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 Guy against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Guy
Is Guy a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Guy ranks 20,278th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, few empty homes, and low taxes, and lowest on air quality and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Guy expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $267,844. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $85,132 median income, cost of living beats 59% of towns.
Is Guy safe?
Guy is safer than 34% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $421 per resident a year.
Compare Guy with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Guy. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Guy 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.
Guy detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Guy: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Guy: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Guy: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Guy: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Guy 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.