Best PlacesMeadows Place, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Meadows Place, 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.
Meadows Place ranks 9,325th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cell coverage by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Meadows Place
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.
Meadows Place's strengths and weaknesses
Where Meadows Place ranks high
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 98% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 98% of towns
- BikingBetter than 95% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 95% of towns
Where Meadows Place ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 4% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 4% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Meadows Place
A household needs to earn about $77,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Meadows Place home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $101,101, 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 Meadows Place's effective rate of 1.03%, 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Meadows Place
Meadows Place runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Meadows Place.
Who works in Meadows Place, and how
Work in Meadows Place centers on manufacturing and professional & technical. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Meadows Place
Meadows Place has more restaurants and bars per resident than 80% of towns. The coast is about 39 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Meadows Place and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Meadows Place, month by month
Meadows Place sees roughly 126 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 66, with lows near 46. The comfortable stretch runs October through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 66° | 55° | 46° |
| April | 82° | 71° | 62° |
| July | 95° | 85° | 76° |
| October | 85° | 73° | 63° |
Flying in and out of Meadows Place
William P Hobby sits about 19 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 Meadows Place
Schools across Meadows Place average a B−, better than 63% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Meadows ElC · 32% proficient
- Arrow Academy - Liberation AcademyD+ · 23% proficient
- Cummings ElD+ · 23% proficient
Top middle schools
- Dulles MiddleB · 44% proficient
- Mata IntD− · 17% proficient
Top high schools
- Kerr H SA+ · 85% proficient
- Dulles H SA− · 63% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Meadows Place school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Meadows Place 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 Meadows Place against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Meadows Place
Is Meadows Place a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Meadows Place ranks 9,325th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cell coverage, few empty homes, and walkability, and lowest on noise and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Meadows Place expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $284,321. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $101,101 median income, cost of living beats 90% of towns.
Is Meadows Place safe?
Meadows Place is safer than 17% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $595 per resident a year.
Compare Meadows Place with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Meadows Place. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Meadows Place 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.
Meadows Place detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Meadows Place: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Meadows Place: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Meadows Place: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Meadows Place: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Meadows Place 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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