Best PlacesHumble, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Humble, 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.
Humble ranks 226th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 39 minutes away. Its strengths are a stable housing market and what local pay buys. The cost shows up in property taxes, air quality, and walkability.
The best neighborhoods in Humble
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 Humble
The parts of Humble, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the city.
Northwestern Humble
Far Northeast
Incomes run higher and local pay stretches further.
Eastern Humble
It is quieter, though fewer households have young kids.
Southwestern Humble
Fewer adults hold degrees and fewer residents vote.
Humble shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 1% of the country and others in the top 4%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Humble's strengths and weaknesses
Humble lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. A stable housing market, what local pay buys, and low taxes carry most of that.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Property taxes, air quality, and walkability hold the score down. Cost swings more from one part of Humble to another than it does between Humble and its neighbors, which the map below shows.
Where Humble ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 93% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 90% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 84% of cities
- State fiscal healthBetter than 84% of cities
- Local economyBetter than 81% of cities
Where Humble ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 9% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 10% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than only 11% of cities
- Short commute30.8 minutes each way, better than only 15% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 16% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Humble
A household needs to earn about $90,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Humble home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $101,477, 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 Humble's effective rate of 1.62%, 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 Humble
Humble 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 Humble.
Who works in Humble, and how
Work in Humble 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 80%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Humble
Humble has more restaurants and bars per resident than 81% of cities and more parkland per resident than 82% of cities. The coast is about 39 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Humble and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Humble, month by month
Humble 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 Humble
George Bush Intcntl/Houston sits about 6 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 Humble
Schools across Humble average a B−, better than 64% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Snyder ElA · 72% proficient
- Willow Creek ElA · 68% proficient
- Birnham Woods ElA · 64% proficient
Top middle schools
- Riverwood MiddleA+ · 73% proficient
- Clark IntA+ · 68% proficient
- Cox IntA · 61% proficient
Top high schools
- Grand Oaks H SA · 73% proficient
- Kingwood H SA · 71% proficient
- Guy M Sconzo Early College H SA− · 65% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Humble school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Humble 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 Humble against the other 444 cities.
Who Humble suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 90% of cities, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 16% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Humble
Is Humble a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Humble ranks 226th of 445 cities. It scores highest on a stable housing market, what local pay buys, and low taxes, and lowest on property taxes and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Humble expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $308,190. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $101,477 median income, cost of living beats 90% of cities.
Is Humble safe?
Yes, Humble is safer than 60% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $442 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Humble?
July highs average about 96 degrees, and January highs near 67 with lows near 43. That works out to about 95 pleasant days a year, more than 44% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Humble?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Northwestern Humble, Far Northeast, and Eastern Humble. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Humble good for families?
Schools beat 64% of cities, crime safety beats 60%, and childcare runs $842 a month.
Is Humble good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 90% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 70% of cities. About 16% of workers already work from home.
Compare Humble with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Humble. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Humble 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.
Humble detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Humble: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Humble: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Humble: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Humble: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Humble 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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