Best PlacesLeon Springs, TX Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Leon Springs, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Leon Springs ranks 3,991st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Leon Springs

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Leon Springs 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.

Leon Springs' strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%What local pay buys
Top 5%Civic engagement
Top 5%High incomes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Leon Springs with other towns.

Where Leon Springs ranks high

  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 98% of towns
  • Voter turnoutBetter than 97% of towns
  • Household income$144,697 median, better than 97% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 95% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns

Where Leon Springs ranks low

  • Heat safetyBetter than only 15% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than only 17% of towns
  • BikingBetter than only 22% of towns
  • QuietBetter than only 22% of towns
  • Low property taxBetter than only 26% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Leon Springs

A household needs to earn about $161,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Leon Springs home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $144,697; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.

Income to buy the median home
$161,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$3,757
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $593,863 home
Median rent
$1,655
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,028
Property tax$531
Homeowners insurance$198

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 Leon Springs' effective rate of 1.07%, 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 Leon Springs

Leon Springs runs older than the country.

Median age
58
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
38%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1814%
18 to 3415%
35 to 4915%
50 to 6418%
65 and older38%

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


Who works in Leon Springs, and how

Work in Leon Springs centers on construction and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
24%
above the national average
Unemployment
1.2%
below the national average
Job growth
+1.7%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Construction14%
Health care & social10%
Manufacturing9%
Education9%
Professional & technical8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 71%
  • Work from home 24%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in Leon Springs

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


What the weather is like in Leon Springs, month by month

Leon Springs sees roughly 134 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 63, with lows near 36. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, October, and November.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
Show the monthly temperatures
MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January63°48°36°
April81°67°55°
July95°82°72°
October82°68°56°

Flying in and out of Leon Springs

San Antonio International sits about 29 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 29 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
43rd-busiest in the US, 87 nonstop destinations
Average drive
41 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Leon Springs

Schools across Leon Springs average a B+, better than 75% 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 Leon Springs school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Leon Springs 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 Leon Springs against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Leon Springs

Is Leon Springs a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Leon Springs ranks 3,991st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, civic engagement, and high incomes, and lowest on summer heat and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Leon Springs expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $593,863. The overall cost of living runs about 3% below the national average. Set against a $144,697 median income, cost of living beats 98% of towns.

Is Leon Springs safe?

Leon Springs is safer than 33% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $436 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 Leon Springs. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Leon Springs 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.

Leon Springs detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Leon Springs 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.