Best PlacesPiney Point Village, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Piney Point Village, 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.
Piney Point Village ranks 2,810th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Piney Point Village
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.
Piney Point Village's strengths and weaknesses
Where Piney Point Village ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$167,289 median, better than 98% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 96% of towns
Where Piney Point Village ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Piney Point Village
A household needs to earn about $372,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Piney Point Village home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $167,289, 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 Piney Point Village's effective rate of 1.44%, 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.
Who lives in Piney Point Village
Piney Point Village runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Piney Point Village.
Who works in Piney Point Village, and how
Work in Piney Point Village centers on professional & technical and finance & insurance. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 72%
- Work from home 26%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Piney Point Village
The coast is about 35 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Piney Point Village, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Piney Point Village, month by month
Piney Point Village sees roughly 146 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 64, with lows near 49. The comfortable stretch runs October through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 64° | 55° | 49° |
| April | 80° | 71° | 64° |
| July | 94° | 85° | 79° |
| October | 83° | 74° | 67° |
Flying in and out of Piney Point Village
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 Piney Point Village
Schools across Piney Point Village average a B−, better than 71% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Memorial Drive ElA+ · 72% proficient
Top middle schools
- Spring Branch MiddleA− · 53% proficient
- Tanglewood MiddleC · 32% proficient
- Revere MiddleD · 20% proficient
Top high schools
- Memorial H SA+ · 81% proficient
- Wisdom H SD− · 16% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Piney Point Village school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Piney Point Village 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 Piney Point Village against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Piney Point Village
Is Piney Point Village a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Piney Point Village ranks 2,810th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, transit, and an educated workforce, and lowest on air quality and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Piney Point Village expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,309,717. The overall cost of living runs about 5% below the national average. Set against a $167,289 median income, cost of living beats 100% of towns.
Is Piney Point Village safe?
Piney Point Village is safer than 11% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $670 per resident a year.
Compare Piney Point Village with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Piney Point Village. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Piney Point Village 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.
Piney Point Village detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Piney Point Village: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Piney Point Village: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Piney Point Village: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Piney Point Village: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Piney Point Village 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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