Best PlacesLeming, TX Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Leming, 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.

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Leming ranks 25,237th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and thin health care access ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Leming

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Leming area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Leming's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%The weather
Top 10%Low taxes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Leming with other towns.

Where Leming ranks high

  • Nice weatherabout 176 pleasant days a year, better than 98% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 84% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than 84% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than 81% of towns

Where Leming ranks low

  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 7% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than only 11% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than only 18% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Leming

A household needs to earn about $84,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Leming home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $69,129, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$84,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,971
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $310,750 home
Median rent
$833
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,584
Property tax$283
Homeowners insurance$104

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 Leming's effective rate of 1.09%, 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.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Leming

Leming runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
38
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
14%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.2
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1828%
18 to 3418%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6421%
65 and older14%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Leming.


Who works in Leming, and how

Work in Leming centers on health care & social and transportation & warehousing. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
8%
below the national average
Unemployment
1.8%
below the national average
Job growth
−3.3%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social14%
Transportation & warehousing14%
Other services14%
Education10%
Manufacturing8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 85%
  • Work from home 8%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 7%

Life in Leming

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Leming.


What the weather is like in Leming, month by month

Leming sees roughly 176 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 99 degrees. January highs sit near 68, with lows near 43. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
Show the monthly temperatures
MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January68°53°43°
April85°71°61°
July99°85°75°
October87°73°62°

Flying in and out of Leming

San Antonio International sits about 32 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.3 million passengers in 2025, with 87 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
SAT
San Antonio International, about 32 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
43rd-busiest in the US, 87 nonstop destinations
Average drive
45 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Leming

Schools across Leming average a C, better than 42% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Leming school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Leming 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 Leming against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Leming

Is Leming a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Leming ranks 25,237th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, low taxes, and a stable housing market, and lowest on thin health care access and civic engagement. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Leming expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $310,750. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $69,129 median income, cost of living beats 41% of towns.

Is Leming safe?

Leming is safer than 46% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $366 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Leming. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Leming 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.

Leming detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Leming: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Leming: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Leming: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Leming: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Leming detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.