Best PlacesMissouri City, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Missouri City, 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.
Missouri City ranks 207th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 38 minutes away. Its strengths are what local pay buys and cell coverage. The cost shows up in property taxes, walkability, and long commutes.
The best neighborhoods in Missouri City
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 Missouri City
The parts of Missouri City, 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.
Western Missouri City
Schools score higher, more adults hold degrees, and tree cover is thicker.
Northern Missouri City
Prices have run up less, though health outcomes score lower.
Fort Bend Houston
Incomes run lower and local pay stretches less far.
Scores across Missouri City run from about the 3rd to the 89th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Missouri City's strengths and weaknesses
Missouri City lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. What local pay buys, cell coverage, and quiet carry most of that.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Property taxes, walkability, and long commutes hold the score down. Cost swings more from one part of Missouri City to another than it does between Missouri City and its neighbors, which the map below shows.
Where Missouri City ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 91% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 88% of cities
- QuietBetter than 87% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 86% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 84% of cities
Where Missouri City ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 6% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than only 7% of cities
- Short commute32.1 minutes each way, better than only 10% of cities
- BikingBetter than only 14% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 17% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Missouri City
A household needs to earn about $99,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Missouri City home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $105,424, 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 Missouri City's effective rate of 1.75%, 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 Missouri City
Missouri City's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Missouri City.
Who works in Missouri City, and how
Work in Missouri City centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Missouri City
Missouri City has more restaurants and bars per resident than 66% of cities and more parkland per resident than 94% of cities. The coast is about 38 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Missouri City and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Missouri City, month by month
Missouri City sees roughly 112 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 65, with lows near 45. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 65° | 54° | 45° |
| April | 80° | 70° | 60° |
| July | 94° | 83° | 74° |
| October | 84° | 71° | 62° |
Flying in and out of Missouri City
William P Hobby sits about 16 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 Missouri City
Schools across Missouri City average a C+, better than 45% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Commonwealth ElA+ · 79% proficient
- Sienna Crossing ElA · 69% proficient
- Scanlan Oaks ElA · 65% proficient
Top middle schools
- Fort Settlement MiddleA+ · 80% proficient
- Reading J HA · 65% proficient
- First Colony MiddleA− · 56% proficient
Top high schools
- Clements H SA+ · 80% proficient
- Ridge Point H SA · 69% proficient
- George Ranch H SA · 68% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Missouri City school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Missouri City 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 Missouri City against the other 444 cities.
Who Missouri City suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 91% of cities, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 14% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Missouri City
Is Missouri City a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Missouri City ranks 207th of 445 cities. It scores highest on what local pay buys, cell coverage, and quiet, and lowest on property taxes and walkability. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Missouri City expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $333,565. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $105,424 median income, cost of living beats 91% of cities.
Is Missouri City safe?
Missouri City is safer than 36% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $514 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Missouri City?
July highs average about 94 degrees, and January highs near 65 with lows near 45. That works out to about 112 pleasant days a year, more than 54% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Missouri City?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Western Missouri City, Northern Missouri City, and Fort Bend Houston. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Missouri City good for families?
Schools beat 45% of cities, crime safety beats 36%, and childcare runs $842 a month.
Is Missouri City good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 91% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 86% of cities. About 14% of workers already work from home.
Compare Missouri City with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Missouri City. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Missouri City 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.
Missouri City detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Missouri City: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Missouri City: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Missouri City: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Missouri City: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Missouri City 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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