Best PlacesSpring, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Spring, 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.
Spring ranks 126th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 50 minutes away. Its strengths are what local pay buys and a stable housing market. The cost shows up in property taxes, biking, and air quality.
The best neighborhoods in Spring
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 Spring
The parts of Spring, 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.
Canyon Lakes at Legends Ranch, Imperial Oaks & Legends Run
Incomes run higher, more adults hold degrees, and local pay stretches further.
Creekside Park
Crime runs lower and more residents vote.
Memorial Northwest
Health care is easier to reach, though heat risk is higher.
Grogan's Mill
Fewer households have young kids and it is noisier.
Cypresswood
More homes sit empty and prices have run up more.
Eastern Spring
Homes cost less, though schools score lower.
Spring shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 3% of the country and others in the top 3%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Spring's strengths and weaknesses
Spring lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. What local pay buys, a stable housing market, and a strong job market carry most of that.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Property taxes, biking, and air quality hold the score down. Cost swings more from one part of Spring to another than it does between Spring and its neighbors, which the map below shows.
Where Spring ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 93% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 89% of cities
- Local economyBetter than 86% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 84% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 84% of cities
Where Spring ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 8% of cities
- BikingBetter than only 10% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 11% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than only 12% of cities
- Short commute30.9 minutes each way, better than only 14% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Spring
A household needs to earn about $94,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Spring home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $114,294, 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 Spring's effective rate of 1.64%, 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 Spring
Spring runs younger than the country, 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 Spring.
Who works in Spring, and how
Work in Spring centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 17%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Spring
Spring has more restaurants and bars per resident than 75% of cities and more parkland per resident than 86% of cities. The coast is about 50 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Spring and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Spring, month by month
Spring sees roughly 106 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 65, with lows near 44. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 65° | 53° | 44° |
| April | 81° | 70° | 61° |
| July | 95° | 84° | 76° |
| October | 84° | 72° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Spring
George Bush Intcntl/Houston sits about 9 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 23.3 million passengers in 2025, with 214 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Spring
Schools across Spring average a B+, better than 81% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Ride ElA+ · 75% proficient
- Timber Creek ElA+ · 72% proficient
- Snyder ElA · 72% proficient
Top middle schools
- Collins IntA+ · 76% proficient
- York J HA+ · 71% proficient
- Clark IntA+ · 68% proficient
Top high schools
- Grand Oaks H SA · 73% proficient
- Tomball H SA · 72% proficient
- College Park H SA · 72% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Spring school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Spring 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 Spring against the other 444 cities.
Who Spring suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 93% of cities, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 17% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Spring
Is Spring a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Spring ranks 126th of 445 cities. It scores highest on what local pay buys, a stable housing market, and a strong job market, and lowest on property taxes and biking. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Spring expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $322,541. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $114,294 median income, cost of living beats 93% of cities.
Is Spring safe?
Yes, Spring is safer than 64% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $415 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Spring?
July highs average about 95 degrees, and January highs near 65 with lows near 44. That works out to about 106 pleasant days a year, more than 50% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Spring?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Canyon Lakes at Legends Ranch, Imperial Oaks & Legends Run, Creekside Park, and Memorial Northwest. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Spring good for families?
Schools beat 81% of cities, crime safety beats 64%, and childcare runs $842 a month.
Is Spring good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 93% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 84% of cities. About 17% of workers already work from home.
Compare Spring with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Spring. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Spring 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.
Spring detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Spring: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Spring: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Spring: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Spring: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Spring 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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