Best PlacesSouthside Place, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Southside 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.
Southside Place ranks 1,778th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Southside 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.
Southside Place's strengths and weaknesses
Where Southside Place ranks high
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
Where Southside Place ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 7% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 14% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Southside Place
A household needs to earn about $478,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Southside Place home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $162,885, 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 Southside Place's effective rate of 1.36%, 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 Southside Place
Southside Place runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Southside Place.
Who works in Southside Place, and how
Work in Southside Place centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 72%
- Work from home 22%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Southside Place
Southside Place has more restaurants and bars per resident than 93% of towns. The coast is about 30 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Southside Place and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Southside Place, month by month
Southside Place sees roughly 138 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 Southside Place
William P Hobby sits about 10 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 Southside Place
Schools across Southside Place average a C+, better than 49% of towns.
Top middle schools
- Pershing MiddleB · 44% proficient
Top high schools
- Bellaire H SB+ · 55% proficient
- Lamar H SB+ · 54% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Southside Place school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Southside 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 Southside Place against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Southside Place
Is Southside Place a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Southside Place ranks 1,778th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on transit, an educated workforce, and population health, and lowest on disaster risk and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Southside Place expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,699,100. The overall cost of living runs about 10% above the national average. Set against a $162,885 median income, cost of living beats 99% of towns.
Is Southside Place safe?
Southside Place is safer than 19% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $506 per resident a year.
Compare Southside Place with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Southside Place. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Southside 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.
Southside Place detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Southside Place: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Southside Place: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Southside Place: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Southside Place: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Southside 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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