Best PlacesSanto, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Santo, 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.
Santo ranks 20,895th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low taxes by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Santo
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.
Santo's strengths and weaknesses
Where Santo ranks high
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 88% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 84% of towns
- Household income$98,359 median, better than 84% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 82% of towns
Where Santo ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 6% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 12% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 17% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 23% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Santo
A household needs to earn about $82,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Santo home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $98,359, 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 Santo's effective rate of 0.85%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Santo
Santo runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Santo.
Who works in Santo, and how
Work in Santo centers on retail trade and education. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 77%
- Work from home 20%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Santo
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Santo.
What the weather is like in Santo, month by month
Santo sees roughly 122 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 98 degrees. January highs sit near 60, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60° | 45° | 33° |
| April | 79° | 65° | 53° |
| July | 98° | 85° | 73° |
| October | 82° | 67° | 55° |
Flying in and out of Santo
Dallas-Fort Worth International sits about 68 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 41.3 million passengers in 2025, with 289 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Santo
Schools across Santo average a B−, better than 58% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Santo ElB · 47% proficient
- Lipan ElB · 45% proficient
- Millsap ElB− · 42% proficient
Top middle schools
- Millsap MiddleB+ · 48% proficient
- Mineral Wells J HC− · 29% proficient
Top high schools
- Millsap H SB+ · 52% proficient
- Santo H SB · 50% proficient
- Lipan H SB · 47% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Santo school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Santo 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 Santo against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Santo
Is Santo a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Santo ranks 20,895th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low taxes, a strong job market, and cell coverage, and lowest on summer heat and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Santo expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $311,416. The overall cost of living runs about 0% below the national average. Set against a $98,359 median income, cost of living beats 76% of towns.
Is Santo safe?
Santo is safer than 54% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $352 per resident a year.
Compare Santo with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Santo. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Santo 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.
Santo detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Santo: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Santo: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Santo: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Santo: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Santo 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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