Best PlacesIrving, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Irving, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Irving ranks 217th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It does not top any single list, but it lands above the national middle on low taxes and state finances. The weaker spots are civic engagement, thin health care access, and property taxes.
The best neighborhoods in Irving
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 Irving
The parts of Irving, 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.
Valley Ranch
More adults hold degrees, local pay stretches further, and incomes run higher.
Eastern Irving
Health outcomes score higher, though fewer households have young kids.
Cardinal Family Village
Heat risk is higher.
Song
Scores close to Cardinal Family Village, except that more homes sit empty here.
Southern Irving
Homes cost less, though health care is harder to reach.
Bear Creek
Schools score lower and biking is worse.
Southeastern Irving
Fewer residents vote.
Irving shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 6% of the country and others in the top 2%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Irving's strengths and weaknesses
Irving lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Low taxes, state finances, and fast internet are the strongest pieces, though none of them is exceptional.
The one real hole is civic engagement, near the bottom of the country. Thin health care access and property taxes also cost it ground. The detail is below, and the map is where it turns into a choice of neighborhood rather than just a place.
Where Irving ranks high
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 84% of cities
- State fiscal healthBetter than 84% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 80% of cities
- Health outlookBetter than 78% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 74% of cities
Where Irving ranks low
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 1% of cities
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 10% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than only 16% of cities
- School gradeC−, better than only 23% of cities
- Tree shadeBetter than only 27% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Irving
A household needs to earn about $109,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Irving home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $91,399, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 Irving's effective rate of 1.49%, 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 Irving
Irving runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Irving.
Who works in Irving, and how
Work in Irving centers on professional & technical and construction. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 76%
- Work from home 20%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Irving
Irving has more restaurants and bars per resident than 78% of cities and more parkland per resident than 86% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Irving and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Irving, month by month
Irving sees roughly 109 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 98 degrees. January highs sit near 61, with lows near 35. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 61° | 47° | 35° |
| April | 80° | 67° | 54° |
| July | 98° | 87° | 76° |
| October | 83° | 69° | 58° |
Flying in and out of Irving
Dallas-Fort Worth International sits about 5 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 41.3 million passengers in 2025, with 289 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Irving
Schools across Irving average a C−, better than 23% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Valley Ranch ElA+ · 73% proficient
- Canyon Ranch ElA · 66% proficient
- Richard J Lee ElA · 63% proficient
Top middle schools
- Coppell Middle EastA+ · 81% proficient
- Coppell Middle WestA+ · 75% proficient
- Uplift Education-north Hills Prep MiddleA · 59% proficient
Top high schools
- Uplift Education-north Hills Prep H SA+ · 82% proficient
- New Tech H S At CoppellA+ · 80% proficient
- North Lake Early College H SA · 79% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Irving school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Irving 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 Irving against the other 444 cities.
Who Irving suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 71% of cities, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 20% already work from home.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Irving
Is Irving a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Irving ranks 217th of 445 cities. It scores highest on low taxes, state finances, and fast internet, and lowest on civic engagement 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 Irving expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $379,762. The overall cost of living runs about 7% below the national average. Set against a $91,399 median income, cost of living beats 71% of cities.
Is Irving safe?
Irving is safer than 36% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $499 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Irving?
July highs average about 98 degrees, and January highs near 61 with lows near 35. That works out to about 109 pleasant days a year, more than 52% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Irving?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Valley Ranch, Eastern Irving, and Cardinal Family Village. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Irving good for families?
Schools beat 23% of cities, crime safety beats 36%, and childcare runs $883 a month.
Is Irving good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 71% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 80% of cities. About 20% of workers already work from home.
Compare Irving with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Irving. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Irving 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.
Irving detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Irving: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Irving: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Irving: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Irving: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Irving 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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